Is PAT Leaving Quality Behind?

Ok, so in what way is that leaving quality behind? Does this add something to design of experiments, to PDSA, to control charts, to continuous improvement, to quality function deployment…

The Improvement Handbook will help people learn what quality improvement is about today (and was about in 1990).

Related: Management Improvement History and Health Care - Quality and Innovation - Management Improvement History - Management Advice Failures - SPC: History and Understanding

Sounds more like catching up to what quality is suppose to be about? There is a big difference between needing to improve on previous attempts to adopt management improvement methods and needing to find new methods. Most of what is needed it to actually apply the good ideas that have been around for decades. And yes, sure try and find some new great ideas but where the focus should really be is on the hard work of execution not looking for some magic pill to solve the difficult task of managing well.

Also see: Fast Cycle Change in Knowledge-Based Organizations by Ian Hau and Ford Calhoun ( a great report on process improvement in a situation many see as outside the scope of process management)