Harold French Dodge (January 23, 1893 in

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– December 10, 1976) was one of the principal architects of the science of

statistical quality control Statistical process control (SPC) or statistical quality control (SQC) is the application of statistical methods to monitor and control the quality of a production process. This helps to ensure that the process operates efficiently, producing ...

. His father was the photographer William H. Dodge. Harold Dodge is universally known for his work in originating

acceptance sampling Acceptance sampling uses statistical sampling to determine whether to accept or reject a production lot of material. It has been a common quality control technique used in industry. It is usually done as products leave the factory, or in some c ...

plans for putting inspection operations on a scientific basis in terms of controllable risks. Dodge earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. in 1916 and his A.B. (Master's degree) in Physics from Columbia University in 1917. From 1917 to 1958 worked at quality assurance department at

Bell Laboratories Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...

with

Walter Shewhart Walter Andrew Shewhart (pronounced like "shoe-heart"; March 18, 1891 – March 11, 1967) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the ''father of statistical quality control'' and also related to the Shewhart cycl ...

, George Edwards,

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, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead, E.G.D. Paterson, and

Mary N. Torrey Mary Newton Torrey (February 2, 1910 - January 7, 1998) was an American mathematical statistician and quality control specialist for Bell Laboratories. With Harold F. Dodge at Bell Labs, she was an early contributor to the theory of acceptance ...

. 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) *Average outgoing quality limit (AOQL) Also he originated several types of: *Acceptance sampling schemes *CSP type continuous sampling plans *Chain sampling plans *Skip-lot sampling plans During

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, Dodge had an office in the Pentagon and served as a consultant to the

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, to NASA and the Sandia Corporation. He was also chairman of the

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(now the

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) War Committee Z1, which prepared the Z1.1, Z1.2, and Zl.3 quality control standards. After he retired from Bell Labs in 1958, Dodge became a professor of applied mathematical statistics at Rutgers. Th
American Society for Testing and Materials
honors Harold Dodge's memory with th
Harold F. Dodge Award.

References

*http://www.asq.org/about-asq/who-we-are/bio_dodge.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Dodge, Harold F. Quality experts 1893 births 1976 deaths Fellows of the American Statistical Association Sandia National Laboratories people