Quality Digest (abbreviated as QD) is an
online news publication and a former monthly print magazine covering
quality management
Quality management ensures that an organization, product or service consistently functions well. It has four main components: quality planning, quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement. Quality management is focused not only ...
subjects.
The content is divided between
quality control
Quality control (QC) is a process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production. ISO 9000 defines quality control as "a part of quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements".
This approach places ...
,
metrology
Metrology is the scientific study of measurement. It establishes a common understanding of units, crucial in linking human activities. Modern metrology has its roots in the French Revolution's political motivation to standardise units in Fran ...
, compliance,
Six Sigma,
and
ISO
ISO is the most common abbreviation for the International Organization for Standardization.
ISO or Iso may also refer to: Business and finance
* Iso (supermarket), a chain of Danish supermarkets incorporated into the SuperBest chain in 2007
* Iso ...
standards and certifications.
History
Known as ''Quality Circle Digest'' from 1981 to 1987, QD started as a print magazine by Donald Dewar as a part of the Quality Circle Institute (later also known as ''QCI International'') that he had founded. During the same year that Dewar started QCI, he started touring the United States teaching the principles of quality circles and participative management while promoting the newly launched magazine to American businesses. The first issue was published in 1981.
By 1989, the total circulation for Quality Digest magazine reached seventy thousand.
Content
QD publishes writing by
expert
An expert is somebody who has a broad and deep understanding and competence in terms of knowledge, skill and experience through practice and education in a particular field. Informally, an expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable s ...
s in the quality management fields, particularly articles about emerging quality initiatives and the
quality circle. Pete Robustelli, John Guaspari, H. James Harrington, and
Donald J. Wheeler
Donald J. Wheeler is an American author, statistician and expert in quality control.''A Conversation with Donald J. Wheeler'', by William H. Woodall, Quality Engineering, Vol. 21 pages 357-365, 2009.
Wheeler graduated from the University of Texas ...
are among those whose work appeared in the publication.
Criticism
When ISO 9000-based standards became a focus for American businesses during the 1990s, Quality Digest was criticized for containing an abundance of ads for services offered by organizations engaged in the business of the ISO certification process.
See also
*
Joseph M. Juran
Joseph Moses Juran (December 24, 1904 – February 28, 2008) was a Romanian-born American engineer and management consultant. He was an evangelist for quality and quality management, having written several books on those subjects. He was the brot ...
*
Kaoru Ishikawa
References
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Online magazines with defunct print editions