Shewhart cycle

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The Shewhart cycle (also referred to as the Deming Cycle, after W. Edwards Deming) was named for Walter Shewhart, who discussed the concept in his Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control book. It is the continuous improvement cycle of Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA).

The Shewhart Cycle
The Shewhart Cycle



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Shewhart, Walter Andrew (1939). Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control. New York: Dover. ISBN 0-486-65232-7. 

Shewhart, Walter Andrew (1980). Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product/50th Anniversary Commemorative Issue. American Society for Quality. ISBN 0-87389-076-0. 

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