- Harold F. Dodge
Harold F. Dodge was one of the principal architects of the science of
statistical quality control . He is universally known for his work in originating acceptance sampling plans for putting inspection operations on a scientific basis in terms of controllable risks.From 1917 to 1958 worked at quality assurance department at
Bell Laboratories withWalter Shewhart ,George Edwards ,Harry Romig ,R. L. Jones ,Paul Olmstead ,E.G.D. Paterson , andMary N. Torrey . At that time the basic concepts of acceptance sampling was developed, such as :
*Consumer's Risk ,
*Producer's Risk ,
*double sampling,
*lot tolerance percent defective (LTPD), and
*average outgoing quality limit (AOQL).Also he originated several types of:
*acceptance sampling schemes,
*CSP type continuous sampling plans,
*chain sampling plans, and
*skip-lot sampling plans.During
World War II , Dodge served as a consultant to the Secretary of War, and waschairman of theAmerican Standards Association (now theAmerican National Standards Institute )War Committee Z1 , which prepared theZ1.1 ,Z1.2 , andZl.3 quality control standard s.
*http://www.asq.org/about-asq/who-we-are/bio_dodge.html
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