Matthew Barsalou
It seems like every few years somebody, somewhere around the world asks, “What is quality?” or “What does quality mean?” I recently had the opportunity to make my own attempt at addressing this...
Matthew Barsalou
I recently had an opportunity to learn about quality in industry in a Soviet Bloc nation, the former German Democratic Republic, better known as East Germany. I was invited to dinner with a family...
Matthew Barsalou
I live and work in Germany, and I recently learned a useful German phrase: “Service Wüste.” Well, half-German; the service part is actually English. Translated into English it would mean “service...
Matthew Barsalou
Thursday, March 28, 2013, was not a good day for the field of quality. On that day we quality practitioners lost the great statistician George E. P. Box, who died at age 93.
I’m not a statistician...
Matthew Barsalou
Genichi Taguchi passed away in Tokyo on June 2, 2012, at the age of 88. He started his career by studying textile engineering with the expectation of entering his family’s kimono business, but was...
Matthew Barsalou
Tests have detected the presence of horse DNA in European meat products that were supposed to be beef. So far, many food products, from hamburgers in the United Kingdom to frozen lasagna in Germany...
Matthew Barsalou
Editor’s note: This is part four of a four-part series about the history of quality. For a description of the earlier years in the quality movement, see part one, part two, and part three.
The Six...
Matthew Barsalou
Editor’s note: This is part three of a four-part series about the history of quality. For a description of the earlier years in the quality movement, see part one and part two. For the later years...
Matthew Barsalou
Editor’s note: This is part two of a four-part series on the history of quality. For a description of the early years of the quality movement, see part one. For the later years, see part three and...
Matthew Barsalou
Editor’s note: This is part one of a four-part series about the history of quality. For a description of the later years of the quality movement, see part two, part three, and part four.
Joseph...
