Fifty years of quality technologoy

Abstract

Generally speaking the so called development we are enjoying todaywould have been accelerated by the second world war; this is particularlytrue for today's quality technology. So we begin with the war period. Itis fairly obvious that development of quality technology got a boost due tothe demanding position it faced by the war. One might say that the firstrevolution in the quality technology took place during the war time and immediatelybefore; and the second has begun about a decade ago. Therefore weare, in this paper, concentrating mainly on the said two periods.

The subject Statistics is fairly young but "quality" terminology wouldhave been there with the mankind since its civilization. However at presentStatistics plays as a great tool in the field of quality technology of today. Themain role of Statistics has been to produce most economic quality rather thanthe quality at any cost happening before "Statistics" came into the picture.

In this review paper we are proposing to discuss some interesting historicaldevelopment as well as current advancement in the subject.