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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.

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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.

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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.

Biography

• 1904 •

1904 - Born in Braila, Romania, one of six children born to Jakob and Gitel Juran

• 1912 •

1912 - Joseph Juran emigrated to America with his family, settling in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• 1920 •

1920 - When he began his career in the 1920s, the principal focus in quality management was on the quality of the end, or finished, product. The tools used were from the Bell system of acceptance sampling, inspection plans, and control charts. The ideas of Frederick Winslow Taylor dominated.

• 1920 •

1920 - Juran attended Minneapolis South High School where he graduated in 1920.

• 1924 •

1924- with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Juran joined Western Electric's Hawthorne Works. His first job was troubleshooting in the Complaint Department.[5]:?79

• 1925 •

1925 - Bell Labs proposed that Hawthorne Works personnel be trained in its newly developed statistical sampling and control chart techniques. Juran was chosen to join the Inspection Statistical Department, a small group of engineers charged with applying and disseminating Bell Labs' statistical quality control innovations

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1926 - He married Sadie Shapiro. Joseph and Sadie raised four children (three sons and a daughter): Robert, Sylvia, Charles, and Donald. Robert was an award-winning newspaper editor, and Sylvia earned a doctorate in Russian literature.

• 1928 •

1928 Juran was promoted to department chief in 1928, and the following year became a division chief.

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1935 - He published his first quality-related article in Mechanical Engineering

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1937 - He moved to Western Electric/AT&T's headquarters in New York City, where he held the position of Chief Industrial Engineer.

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1941 - In 1941, Juran came across the work of Vilfredo Pareto and began to apply the Pareto principle to quality issues (for example, 80% of a problem is caused by 20% of the causes). This is also known as "the vital few and the trivial many." In later years, Juran preferred "the vital few and the useful many" to signal that the remaining 80% of the causes should not be totally ignored.

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1954 Joseph M. Juran is invited by the Japanese to lecture on quality management and improvement. British statistician E. S. Page introduces the cumulative sum (CUSUM) control chart.

• 1957 •

1957 J. M. Juran and F. M. Gryna’s Quality Control Handbook is first published.

• 1966 •

1966 - During his 1966 visit to Japan, Juran learned about the Japanese concept of quality circles, which he enthusiastically evangelized in the West.[10] He also acted as a matchmaker between U.S. and Japanese companies looking for introductions to each other.

• 1979 •

1979 - Juran founded the Juran Institute in 1979. The Institute is an international training, certification, and consulting company that provides training and consulting services in quality management, Lean Six Sigma management and business process management, as well as Six Sigma certification. The institute is based in Tysons Corner, Virginia. Their mission statement is to "Create a global community of practice to empower organizations and people to push beyond their limits."

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2004 - At age 100, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. A special event was held in May to mark his 100th birthday.

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