The Deming Legacy

The Deming Legacy

His 14 points, 30 years on

About the Book

In his career of nearly 60 years, W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993) contributed to the development of statistical methods to improve manufacturing quality, and introduced these methods with great success in Japan in the 1950s. As his work finally began to be appreciated in the US in the 1980s, he expanded his focus to business management in general, and expressed ideas that were in sharp disagreement with the prevailing wisdom of the time, as expressed in the writings of Peter Drucker.

Deming's 14 points are the best known part of his legacy. He made them in a book called Out of the Crisis, but which crisis was it about? The title begs the question, but the answer is elusive. When the book first came out, in 1982, as Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position, the US was in a recession, and some industries, like steel, shipbuilding, cars, consumer electronics, and semiconductors, were feeling the sting of Japanese competition, but the appreciation that there was more to it than imitation, low wages and hard work was slow in coming.

The title Out of the Crisis was only given to the book in 1986, at a time the country was booming. The book is still a bestseller, which is quite an achievement for a 30-year old technical book. And 30 years on is a good time to ponder how much of Deming's advice has been followed and how much is still relevant.

About the Author

Michel Baudin
Michel Baudin

Fascinated with the art of making things, Michel Baudin on a mission to improve it. Trained in engineering and applied math, he got his feet wet in production in the early 1980s, and later apprenticed under master Japanese consultant Kei Abe for eight years, starting his own consulting group in 1996.He has been consulting since 1987 on Lean manufacturing implementation in industries ranging from automotive and aerospace to electronics and frozen foods, has taught short courses with UC Berkeley extension, the University of Dayton and the Hong Kong Productivity Council, and authored four technical books: Manufacturing Systems Analysis (1990), Lean Assembly (2002), Lean Logistics (2005), and Working with Machines (2007).

He intends to keep working with like-minded partners and contributing improvements in the management and technology of manufacturing as a consultant, trainer, and writer.

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