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MASTERS OF MANUFACTURING: Joseph M. Juran

By Destefani, Jim
Publication: Manufacturing Engineering
Date: Friday, July 1 2005
HEADNOTE

This is the fourth of our annual articles honoring a distinguished figure in manufacturing technology. By doing so, we hope to remind readers that a career of great achievement in manufacturing is still possible.

Considered by many to be the "Father of Quality Management," Dr. Joseph M. Juran is recognized as the man who added a human dimension to quality, expanding it from its statistical origins to a broader management science.

Born in Romania in 1904, Juran and his family emigrated to the United States in 1912, settling in Minneapolis. He worked his way through college, graduating from the University of Minnesota with a degree in electrical engineering in 1924.

Juran launched his career in the Inspection Branch at Western Electric's Hawthorne Works in Cicero, IL. He worked at Hawthorne through the remainder of the 1920s and most of the '30s-a time of tremendous growth and upheaval in manufacturing and quality practices at the facility.

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