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Japan and the Birth of Modern Shipbuilding
How Japan invented modern shipbuilding, and conquered the shipbuilding industry in the process.
Ludwig wanted to build even larger ships, in part to capitalize on the burgeoning iron ore trade with Venezuela, but was limited by the size of the berth at Welding Shipyards. Statistical process control originated in AT&T’s Western Electric subsidiary with the work of Walter Shewhart(another major achievement of Bell Labs), and was brought to Japan after the war by W. Edwards Deming. And it required a great deal of coordination and schedule discipline to ensure everything, from materials on individual pallets to hundred-ton grand blocks, were ready for installation at the proper time.
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