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Industrial Engineer Inspirational Quotes (241)

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...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.
W. Edwards Deming
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People need to know how their job contributes.
W. Edwards Deming
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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
W. Edwards Deming
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The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
W. Edwards Deming
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A rule should suit the purpose.
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Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.
W. Edwards Deming
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We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.
Taiichi Ohno
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Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force
W. Edwards Deming
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When you are out observing on the gemba, do something to help them. If you do, people will come to expect that you can help them and will look forward to seeing you again on the gemba.
Taiichi Ohno
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Without theory we can only copy.
W. Edwards Deming
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Nobody should try to use data unless he has collected data.
W. Edwards Deming
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The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
W. Edwards Deming
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Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.
W. Edwards Deming
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The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable.
W. Edwards Deming
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A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.
W. Edwards Deming
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He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.
W. Edwards Deming
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. Edwards Deming
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The transformation will come from leadership.
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It only takes a little innovation.
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You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.
W. Edwards Deming
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Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.
W. Edwards Deming
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Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.
W. Edwards Deming
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I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
W. Edwards Deming
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