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Directed to professionals in all engineering and management fields interested in quality improvement, this journal provides the widest-ranging coverage of "how-we-did-it" accomplishments-focusing on comprehensive quality science applications throughout society and the entire economy. Quality Engineering contains the latest thinking on quality control and quality assurance management, related physical technology, associated statistical tools, standards information, and more. Published quarterly, Quality Engineering is co-published with Marcel Dekker, Inc. As always, member rates apply. Subscribe

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William H. Woodall

William H. Woodall 

Since 1949, ASQ has presented the Brumbaugh Award to the author of the paper published in the preceding year in Quality Progress, Quality Engineering, or the Journal of Quality Technology that has made the largest single contribution to the industrial applications of quality control.  William H. Woodall is the recipient for 2000 for his paper "Controversies and Contradictions in Sta-tistical Process Control" (Publication with discussion; or direct to article Adobe Acrobat 144kb) published in the Journal of Quality Technology, vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 341-350.    Woodall is a professor in the department of statistics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. 

 

 

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Quality Quotes        

  • "The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise." - Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), U.S. philosopher, logician
  • "Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but a
    cabbage with a college education."      -Mark Twain
  • "The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company. " - Imai

  • "Not everything that counts can be counted; not everything that can be counted counts." - Albert Einstein

  • "The risk of not deciding is often the greatest of all risks to the organization." - Everard and Morris

  • "Commitment is measured in terms of visible and tangible things, not in terms of rhetoric." - Murgatroyd and Morgan

  • "If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney

  • "Where is quality made? Quality is made in the boardroom." - W. Edwards Deming

  • "Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." - Diderot

  • "Nobody will take his eyes off the income statement or put his heart on the line without constant demonstration of support from the top. " - Davidow and Uttal

  • "Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance! " - Berry

  • "There's no great success without great commitment." - Robbins

  • "The transformation to world-class quality is not possible without committed, visionary, hands-on leadership. " - George

  • "Change begins at the top. " - Hradesky

  • "Service is not a competitive edge, it is the competitive edge." - Albrecht and Zemke

  • "Man lives by bread alone, when there is no bread." - McGregor

  • "Benchmarking means out-maneuvering your competitors." - Allan Sayle

  • "In world-class organizations, working to improve quality is not an extracurricular activity. It is a minimum requirement. " - Chang, Labovitz, and Rosansky

  • "The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. " - Arie De Geus (Royal Dutch/Shell)

  • "In considering quality, it is often necessary to turn your thinking upside down and to realize that quality and profit are not mutually exclusive." - Mizuno

  • "To desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly." - Confucius

  • "The only way to get people to adopt constant improvement as a way of life in doing daily business is by empowering them." - Byham and Cox

  • "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well." - Earl of Chesterfield

  • "Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen

  • "Our reputation for quality is only as good as our last machine or our last customer call." - Frank Cary

  • "The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - Edward Gibbon

  • "I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty." - John D. Rockefeller

  • "People learn most rapidly when they have a genuine sense of responsibility for their actions. " - Senge

  • "Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going." - Jack Welch

  • "Plans are nothing. Planning is everything. " - Dwight Eisenhower

  • "One picture is worth more than a thousand words." - Anonymous

  • "The price for ignoring the impact of design on service can be staggering. " - Davidow and Uttal

  • "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." - English Proverb

  • “Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • "The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they are excited they make a success of their lives."  - Walter P. Chrysler, Founder of Chrysler Corporation.

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  • "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming" John R Wooden - UCLA basketball coach

  • "Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education." -Mark Twain

  • We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. --Aristotle

  • "World-class companies realize that all firms have access to the same equipment, technology, financing, and people. The 'half-life' of any academic degree is extremely short; therefore, the real difference among companies is the degree to which employees are developed." -- Ernst & Young

  • "The most important gauge on the shop floor is your brain. Is it calibrated?"
    -Carl Jessome, ASQ member.

  • "A business should quickly stand on its own based on the service it provides the society. Profits should not be a reflection of corporate greed but a vote of confidence from society that what is offered by the firm is valued."
    - Konosuke Matsushita (Matsushita).

  • "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." -Aldous Huxley

  • "The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." -Ray Kroc, founder of the McDonald's Corporation

  • "Quality has much in common with sex.  Everyone is for it.  Everyone feels they understand it.  Everyone thinks execution is a matter of following natural inclinations.  And, of course, most people feel that all problems in these areas are caused by other people."  - Philip B. Crosby

  • "Quality is never an accident, it is always the result of an intelligent effort" - John Ruskin

  • "Look beneath the surface; let not the quality nor it's worth escape thee" - Marcus Aurelius

  • "If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." - W. Somerset Maugham

  • "Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write." - H. G. Wells

  • "Self confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." - Samuel Johnson

  • "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts." - Henry David Thoreau

  • "Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write." - H. G. Wells

  • That which we persist in doing becomes easier-not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

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