The great irony here is that the Japanese learned quality management from the US after WWII (Google: W. Edwards Demming). The US developed/used these quality approaches for the massive WWII war production. The ironic part is that US industry then blew off all these quality lessons after the war and focused on just making money, which wasn't hard for the only surviving industrial base in the world. That came to a grinding halt when the Japanese (using quality methods learned from us) became the world leader for quality back in the 80s and 90s. We older folks recall the 50s and 60s when "made in Japan" meant junk.
-----Original Message----- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Dieselhead Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 10:36 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] I fought the saw and the saw won >Not just good engineering, Quality Control. This is something >American car makers didn't learn until well into the '90s. > >I think it was on here somebody told a good anecdote where an >American car maker paired up with an Asian one and learned about >strict quality control... > -Curt _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
