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Fond Farewells: Remembering Bill Latzko, Tom Nolan, and Bill Ratcliff

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Dear Deming Community, Please join us in honoring the lives of these three men, who made countless contributions to the Deming community and society at large. A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Latzko, Ph.D. Edwards Deming Award for quality, which he received in 1996. May they rest in peace. Latzko, Ph.D. 1947 – 2019).

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Dr. Bill Bellows, new Deputy Director of The Deming Institute

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Edwards Deming Institute — one which will open tremendous possibilities for our future. Dr. Bill Bellows to The Deming Institute staff as our new Deputy Director! Bill has been a long time member of The Deming Institute’s Board of Trustees; a valuable guiding influence for more than a decade. We welcome. Bill Bellows.

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2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl – Need Any Country be Poor?

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2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. I also want to talk about Deming’s emphasis on the big picture, the big problems.

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Fond Farewells: Remembering Bill Latzko, Tom Nolan, and Bill Ratcliff

Deming Institute

Dear Deming Community, Please join us in honoring the lives of these three men, who made countless contributions to the Deming community and society at large. A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Latzko, Ph.D. Edwards Deming Award for quality, which he received in 1996. May they rest in peace. Latzko, Ph.D. 1947 – 2019).

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Deming Lecture by Dr. Jeff Wu on Quality Improvement from Autos to Nanotechnology

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Deming Lecture at the 2012 ASA Joint – Quality Improvement: From Autos and Chips to Nano and Bio” by Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology. Deming’s major insight was to recognize that Shewhart’s idea [control charts, chance and assignable causes etc.], Dr. Wu also points out.

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What we see…

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Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. I also took advantage of an opportunity to meet Dr. Deming during his February 1990 lectures at Western Connecticut State University. Deming is the core of our management.” . per million opportunities.

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Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

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Edwards Deming. I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I do remember my statistics professor saying something in class, in early 1994, right after Dr. Deming passed away. Why had I heard of Dr. Deming?

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