PDCA is dead?

Posted on 12 Aug 2008 by The Manufacturer

Rob Thompson asks if an improvement system first devised in the 1930s is still relevent among the various other quality assurance schemes developed in recent years.

The PDCA (or PDSA) Cycle was originally conceived by Walter Shewhart in 1930s, and later adopted by W. Edwards Deming. The model provides a framework for the improvement of a process or system. It can be used to guide the entire improvement project, or to develop specific projects once target improvement areas have been identified.…

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