Walter A. Shewhart

GPTKB entity

Properties (20)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Statistician
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:Bell_Telephone_Laboratories
gptkbp:awards Shewhart Medal
gptkbp:born March 18, 1891
gptkbp:contribution Quality management
Statistical process control
gptkbp:died March 11, 1967
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_Illinois
gptkb:University_of_California,_Berkeley
gptkbp:field Statistical quality control
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Walter A. Shewhart
gptkbp:influence Total Quality Management (TQM)
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:W._Edwards_Deming
gptkb:Joseph_Juran
gptkbp:inventor Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle
Shewhart cycle
gptkbp:knownFor Quality control
Control charts
gptkbp:nationality American
gptkbp:notableWork Economic_Control_of_Quality_of_Manufactured_Product