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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5495 comp.os.linux.misc:35738 comp.os.os2.advocacy:80528 alt.folklore.computers:73971 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!koriel!olivea!gossip.pyramid.com!sword.eng.pyramid.com!not-for-mail From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 16 Feb 1995 17:05:25 -0800 Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3i0sol$68q@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com> References: <950116203411@lambada> <3hg0ei$f96@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <3hrtv4$5j5@linda.teleport.com> <1995Feb16.082656.4410@surfcty.surfcty.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com > >: >If you knew much about the history of PQ, you'd realize >: >that it grew up in Japan (ironically, the idea was sold to the Japanese >: >by an American, who went there after American companies ignored him. Sorry, >: >don't remember his name). > In article <1995Feb16.082656.4410@surfcty.surfcty.com> chris@surfcty.surfcty.com (Chris D. Johnston) writes: >It was Dr. Demming. He had this neat idea regarding Just In Time (JIT). I believe the term you are looking for, rather than Just In Time, is TQM or Total Quality Management. A term paid lipservice to by all MBA's even though this violates everything Deming taught.