Deming's System of Profound Knowledge

Deming's teachings caught the attention of an engineer at Toyota who went on to develop just-in-time manufacturing. Deming advocated for continuous improvement using PDCA or Plan Do Check Act. This type of thinking later formed one pillar of Deming's seminal work, the System of Profound Knowledge. The 1980s saw the peak of the Japanese miracle. Japan completely transformed from producing low-quality and low-cost products to producing high-volume, high- quality and low- cost products in a matter of decades.