In many ways, Joseph M, Juran's career in quality has paralleled that of W. Edwards Deming. For example: Both worked at Western Electric's Hawthorne plant in the 1920s, though according to Juran, Deming did not work in quality there, and the two did not meet until the 1940s. Both were instrumental in helping Japanese companies revive and drastically improve the quality of their Both are widely recognized as pioneers-even gurus-of quality, with each having core concepts and principles attributed to him. Beyond that, they seem to have had little in common, In fact, some people in the quality community have always wondered about a rivalry between the two pioneers, For instance, the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) created a national quality prize for Japan and named it after Deming, not Juran.
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