在1996年ASQ美国质量学会成立50周年新闻发布纪念会上,主持人向与会媒体记者散发了题为《现代质量管理发展进程中最重要的里程碑》的通稿。文中列举了“最值得珍视和回顾的人与事”,其中出版于1946年,由时任斯坦福大学教授尤金·格兰特所著的《统计质量控制》一书名列榜首。该书作为工业发展史上首部质量管理的专用培训教材,自面世以 At the press conference commemorating the 50th Anniversary of ASQ’s American Society for Quality in 1996, the moderator delivered a speech to participating journalists entitled “The Most Important Milestone in the Development of Modern Quality Management.” The article lists “The Most Valuable and Recalled People and Things,” published in 1946 and ranked by the title of “Statistical Quality Control” by Stanford University professor Eugene Grant. The book as the first in the history of industrial development quality management training materials, since its launch