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LOGISTICS OF PRODUCTION AND INVENTORY
Edited by S.C. Graves, A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan and P.H. Zipkin

CHAPTER 13
Scientific Quality Management and Management Science
P.J. Kolesar

1. Purpose and objections*  

2. The re-emerging strategic role of quality

3.  A brief history of scientific quality management

4. 1950 and beyond: Total quality management

5. Management science and statistical process control

6. Management science and sampling inspection

7. Design, experimentation and the ideas of Taguchi

8. Some closing remarks

References

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