9. Abbreviations and acronyms
PDSA: Plan-Do-Study-Act, Deming's cycle for continuous improvement and knowledge acquisition.
SPC: Statistical Process Control
TPS: Toyota Production System
XmR: I-EM graph (Individual Values and Moving Range)
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Deming, Hors de la Crise , Éditions Economica
Shewhart, Les fondements de la maîtrise de la qualité , Éditions Economica
Wheeler, Understanding variations , Éditions SPC Press (Very didactic book, detailing concrete examples from the management of industrial companies. I have borrowed from this author the terms "natural process limits",...
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