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-----QC Saying: "ȭ�what you don't measure"
2000
There is a famous quality quotation that says, in essence, that
"you can't fix what you don't measure."
What exactly was the quotation and who said it? I saw it in print once and I would like to frame it.
IHC Inc. - Detroit, Michigan USA
Good question! I thought it was "You can't control what you don't measure".
Ted Mooney, P.E.
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2000
I think Ted is correct and it came from Demming.
James Totter, CEF
- Tallahassee, Florida
2000
According to the quality guru where I work, what you are looking for may be from Lord Kelvin, 1883:
"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind."
Bill Vins
microwave & cable assemblies - Mesa (what a place-a), Arizona
2000
I, too, thought it was Demming, so I sought to verify that. While Demming stressed measurement, he actually looked at many things that were important to control but that could not be measured.
Ken Robey- Matthews, North Carolina, USA
January 2, 2011
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