Abstract
A SERIES of six articles by Mr. William B. Rice on quality control in business production and administration have been separately reprinted from Western Industry, the Journal of the American Statistical Association and the Accounting Review, and provides a useful introductory account for anyone interested in the application of statistical methods in business. Mr. Rice, who is the director of the Department of Statistics and Reports of the Plomb Tool Company of Los Angeles, writes with first-hand experience of the methods he describes and drives home his points with a wealth of practical illustration. The first four of his articles deal with the control of quality of a manufactured product on fairly familiar lines—an expository presentation which should do much to arouse interest among manufacturers. In the remaining two he extends the technique to business administration and office accounting, showing, for example, how excessive overtime costs in a department of an engineering plant were tracked down and eliminated, and how administrative charges in a business were brought under control. This is quite a recent development of the subject, and provides an interesting illustration of the growth of scientific methods in the most ordinary commercial operations.
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Quality Control in Business. Nature 156, 330 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156330b0
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