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Encyclopedia > Statistical Quality Control

The application of statistical techniques (SPC and Statistical Sampling) to control a product characteristic to ensure it meets product specifications or the engineering design specifications.


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6.1.1. How did Statistical Quality Control Begin? (457 words)
It was not until the 1920s that statistical theory began to be applied effectively to quality control as a result of the development of sampling theory.
The first to apply the newly discovered statistical methods to the problem of quality control was Walter A. Shewhart of the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
A very good summary of the historical background of SQC is found in chapter 1 of "Quality Control and Industrial Statistics", by Acheson J. Duncan.
Statistical process control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (692 words)
Statistical process control (SPC) is a method for achieving quality control in manufacturing processes.
Statistical process control was pioneered by Walter A. Shewhart and taken up by W.
An example of such a statistical tool would be the Shewhart control chart, and the operator in the aforementioned example plotting the net weight in the Shewhart chart.
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