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  2. Continual improvement process - Wikipedia

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    The PDSA (plan, do, study, act) cycle is often credited to W. Edwards Deming and often called the Deming cycle though W. Edwards Deming referred to it as the Shewhart cycle. [9] Walter A. Shewhart back in the 1920s was working at Western Electric Company with W. Edwards Deming and Joseph M. Juran.

  3. PDCA - Wikipedia

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    The PDCA cycle, with Ishikawa's changes, can be traced back to S. Mizuno of the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1959. [4] The PDCA cycle is also known as PDSA cycle (where S stands for study). It was an early means of representing the task areas of traditional quality management.

  4. W. Edwards Deming - Wikipedia

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    Deming credits a 1939 work by Shewhart for the idea and over time eventually developed the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle, which has the idea of deductive and inductive learning built into the learning and improvement cycle. Deming finally published the PDSA cycle in 1993, in The New Economics on p. 132. [39]

  5. Walter A. Shewhart - Wikipedia

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    Deming developed some of Shewhart's methodological proposals around scientific inference and named his synthesis the Shewhart cycle that later became The PDSA Cycle. [ 5 ] To celebrate his quasquicentennial (125th) birth anniversary, the journal Quality Technology and Quantitative Management ( ISSN 1684-3703 ) published a special issue in on ...

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    Technically, anything over 20 years old can be coined “vintage.”But when you truly think of items worth this title, your brain doesn’t go to Beanie Babies.

  7. Kaizen - Wikipedia

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    The cycle of kaizen activity can be defined as: Plan → Do → Check → Act. This is also known as the Shewhart cycle , Deming cycle, or PDCA . Another technique used in conjunction with PDCA is the five whys , which is a form of root cause analysis in which the user asks a series of five "why" questions about a failure that has occurred ...

  8. Assisted living options for wheelchair users - AOL

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    Benefits of Assisted Living for Wheelchair Users. Compared to independent living, assisted living can provide a wider breadth of support. These services provide a safe and comfortable atmosphere ...

  9. US judge issues order to reopen Citgo data room, restart bidding

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    A U.S. judge overseeing an auction of shares in the parent of Venezuela-owned Citgo Petroleum on Monday agreed to reopen a data room to allow potential buyers to prepare new bids, a court document ...