pioneers of quality management

W. Edwards Deming, Expert on Business Management, Dies at 93

W. Edwards Deming, an expert on business management who...made striking advances in quality. Mr. Deming was described by many commentators as...after Gen. Douglas MacArthur. William Edwards Deming was born on Oct. 14, 1900, in Sioux...

December 21, 1993 - By JOHN HOLUSHA (NYT) - Obituaries - Obituary - 1766 words

Philip Crosby, 75, Developer Of the Zero-Defects Concept

...quality will improve. Mr. Crosby, Armand V. Feigenbaum, W. Edwards Deming and Joseph Juran were often grouped as the nation's...Life'' (1999). Philip Crosby was born in Wheeling, W.Va. He attended what is now Case Western Reserve University...

August 22, 2001 - By WOLFGANG SAXON (NYT) - Business - Obituary - 550 words

Joseph Juran, pioneer of quality control, dies at age 103
International Herald Tribune - France
AP RYE, New York: Joseph M. Juran, a pioneer of quality management whose "Quality Control Handbook" revolutionized how companies around the world made and ...

Joseph Juran, 103, Pioneer in Quality Control, Dies 紐約時報

談點 PIONEER

這三人代表20世紀品質運動的某些路徑和局勢的開創者

日本也有漢字 很有意思

くさわけ　草分け

a pioneer; an early settler; 《創設者》an originator.
・～となる　pioneer.
草分け時代　the pioneer days.

這漢字就類似"篳路藍縷"
篳路，以荊竹編製的柴車。篳路藍縷指駕柴車，穿破衣，以開闢山林。語出左傳˙宣公十二年：「訓之以若敖﹑蚡冒篳路藍縷，以啟山林。」孔穎達˙正義：「以荊竹織門謂之篳門，則篳路亦以荊竹編車，故謂篳路為柴車。方言云：『楚謂凡人貧，衣破醜敝為藍縷。』藍縷謂敝衣也。」後比喻創造事業的艱苦。連橫˙臺灣通史序：「夫臺灣固海上之荒島爾！篳路藍縷，以啟山林，至於今是賴。」亦作「蓽路藍縷」﹑「蓽露藍簍」﹑「篳路襤褸」。