This would allow it to consolidate its leadership in the global market

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The selected tools were the following The Verification Sheets checklist. The Pareto Chart. The Scatter Plot. The Control Chart. Stratified Sampling. The Histogram. The Ishikawa Diagram or CauseEffect Diagram. These tools became the basis of a new lifestyle. All Japanese managers and workers in the industry, from 1950 onwards, were trained in them and had them present in their daily work. The subsequent reaction was decisive for the whole world for decades.

Faced with classical economic theories, based on shortterm profit, the Japanese demonstrated that relentlessly pursuing quality, as Deming proposed, optimized resources and lowered costs . This would allow it to consolidate its leadership in the global market. The Japanese economic miracle defined world industrial Photo Background Removing production for decades to come. In 1964, Japan became the first industrial power ahead of the United States. Its products were the engine of the increase in the flow of international trade during the 1970s, affecting global competitiveness until the 1980s.

Western industry was forced to recover the forgotten ideas of Deming and his disciple Malcolm Baldrige to retake the initiative in the markets. Since then, the acceleration of socioeconomic changes has been exponential. We hope you liked the story about the origins of the seven tools. In a future post, we will describe and review them from a technical point of view.War always brings out the worst in each person, never the good always the worst ”, they stated in the famous movie “ Schindlers List ”.