Armand V Feigenbaum

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Name Armand Feigenbaum


Born April 6, 1922 ( 1922-04-06 ) New York City, New York Alma mater MIT Sloan School of Management Occupation Engineer and quality control Died November 13, 2014, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Union College Awards National Medal of Technology and Innovation Books Total quality control, Total Quality Control, The power of manage, The Power of Manage, Total Quality Control: E Similar People Joseph M Juran, Kaoru Ishikawa, Genichi Taguchi

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Armand Vallin Feigenbaum (April 6, 1922 – November 13, 2014) was an American quality control expert and businessman. He devised the concept of Total Quality Control which inspired Total Quality Management (TQM).

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Biography

Feigenbaum received a bachelor's degree from Union College, his master's degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT. He was Director of Manufacturing Operations at General Electric (1958–1968), and was later the President and CEO of General Systems Company of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, an engineering firm that helps companies define business operating systems. Feigenbaum wrote several books and served as President of the American Society for Quality (1961–1963). On November 13, 2014, he died at the age of 92.

Work

Armand V. Feigenbaum Dr Armand Feigenbaum on Managing for Quality Part 1 IndustryWeek

His contributions to the quality body of knowledge include:

"Total quality control is an effective system for integrating the quality development, quality maintenance, and quality improvement efforts of the various groups in an organization so as to enable production and service at the most economical levels which allow full customer satisfaction."

The concept of a "hidden" plant—the idea that so much extra work is performed in correcting mistakes that there is effectively a hidden plant within any factory.

Accountability for quality: Because quality is everybody's job, it may become nobody's job—the idea that quality must be actively managed and have visibility at the highest levels of management.

The concept of quality costs

Awards and honors

First recipient of ASQ's Lancaster Award

ASQ 1965 Edwards Medal in recognition of "his origination and implementation of basic foundations for modern quality control"

National Security Industrial Association Award of Merit

Member of the Advisory Group of the U.S. Army

Chairman of a system-wide evaluation of quality assurance activities of the Army Materiel Command

Consultant with the Industrial College of the Armed Forces

Union College Founders Medal

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Life member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Life member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Life member of Plymouth Society of Marine Biology

References

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