RE: Question Regarding Deming's Role in WW2 Production

[Myron Tribus <mtribus@earthlink.net>]

>Craig,
>I understand there was a meeting where President Roosevelt called in
>Deming and Shewart and charged them with the responsibility of
>organizing our WWII war production effort, i.e., the training of the
>managers who would be responsible.  I think I got that from the books of
>members of the DEN.  I sure hope who ever that was discovers this string
>and contributes to this discussion.

	I doubt this.

>I understand that a big reason for the success of Deming and Shewart is
>that the preWWII managers were called into uniformed service and were
>thus out of the way of preventing them from being successful.  Deming
>and Shewart were left with inexperienced/green managers and 'Rosie the
>Riveters' and their male equivalents.

	Not likely to be true.   If you were a responsible
	manager during WWII  you were likely to be exempted
	from the draft.

>Their success was noticed by members of JUSE (Union of Japanese
>Scientists and Engineers) they in turn went to General MacArthur and
>said to him, 'get these men over here'.  He did, they listened and
>learned, the rest is history.  Out of destruction was grown the 2nd
>largest economy in the world: Japan.

	NOT TRUE!


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>
>I must warn you I am a fabulist/i.e.., creator of fables by trade.  I am
>a Volkswagen salesman. But, I think there essential truths in the story
>I just told and I think I got these truths from members of the DEN.  I
>sure hope they respond.  I want to get the fable right.

	Great imaginative powers -- but wrong. 

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[Moderator's Note:  Several years ago - Myron interviewed Homer in his home in Arizona.  The 
interview was videotaped and languished for several years while Myron and others attempted
to get someone interested in "dressing it up a bit" and providing fullfillment survices.  Myron
finally found someone dependable that would not charge an arm and a leg - this is a cover expenses 
only cost.  

If you want to know what really happened on the quality front in post-WWII Japan,
this is a required resource.  The companion piece is Homer's CCS manual Myron also helped
bring to the public eye - it is available for download on the DEN web site at:
http://deming.ces.clemson.edu/pub/den/giants_sarasohn.htm