The Taguchi method is named after Japanese engineer Genichi Taguchi who pioneered a preemptive strategy to minimize defects and variations in the end product. He believed that preemptive quality control measures during the research, design, and development of processes were critical to creating uniform...
The C&E Matrix is essentially the result of quantitative generation of multiple fishbone diagrams quickly. The limitation of the fishbone diagram had been that it was not focused on process inputs and allowed analysis of only one output at a time. With multiple outputs, it was not possible ...
The work is foundational for the “Weismann barrier” that puts a halt to (neo-)Lamarckian theories 1886: Theodor Escherich identifies a “bacterium coli commune” that resides in the human gut (E. coli) 1886: D.E. Salmon and Theobald Smith improve vaccination therapies by injecting whole ...