“A ‘special cause’ for celebration.” Brian Buck, on LinkedIn TODAY marks the centennial of one of the most significant innovations in quality management: the control chart. 🎂 🎉 🎆 In the early 1920s, Walter A. Shewhart, working at Bell Labs, recognized the need for a statistical method to monitor and control manufacturing processes. On May 16, 1924, Shewhart created the first “control chart,” a tool that distinguished between common cause variation (inherent in the process) … Continue reading Celebrating 100 Years of Shewhart’s Control Charts: A Century of Quality Management