Welcome to the website of Dr. Donald J. Wheeler

SPC Press offers you today’s best books on Statistical Process Control, Six Sigma, Data Analysis, and Quality Improvement, including:

• Understanding Variation
• Understanding Statistical Process Control
• EMP III: Evaluating the Measurement Process
• Reducing Production Costs
• Making Sense of Data
• The Six Sigma Practitioner’s Guide to Data Analysis
• The Practical Process Improvement Guides
• ...and essential training tools for your use

Statistical Process Controls, Inc. offers you today’s best training in Data Analysis Techniques, taught by the internationally recognized expert…Dr. Donald J. Wheeler.

Call us between 9 am and 4 pm Eastern time, Monday through Friday, and we will be glad to talk with you. At other times, you can leave a phone message and we will return your call the following business day. Or you can contact us here on the website, or email us at spcservice@spcpress.com. Either way, we like hearing from you!

Dr. Wheeler has been teaching people how to use their data more effectively for over 40 years. He was a student and colleague of Dr. Deming for 21 years and is a recipient of the Deming Medal. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and also a Fellow of the American Society for Quality. He has conducted over 1000 seminars in seventeen countries on five continents. He is author or co-author of 25 books and over 200 articles. He has been a columnist for both Quality Digest and Quality magazines. Through these seminars, books, and articles he has had a profound impact on companies and organizations around the world.

Dr. Wheeler graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics and Mathematics, and he holds M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in Statistics from Southern Methodist University. From 1970 to 1982 he taught in the Statistics Department at the University of Tennessee where he was an Associate Professor. In 1982 he formed Statistical Process Controls, Inc. and has worked as a consulting statistician ever since.

In 1984 Fran Wheeler joined Statistical Process Controls Inc. as editor and publisher. In 1986 SPC Press was established with the aim of providing the very best books and training tools for those who work with data. Since then, we have published some of the leading authors in the field of data analysis and quality management, including the only authorized biography of W. Edwards Deming and the best summary book about Deming and his work: The Deming Dimension by Dr. Henry R. Neave. We’ve also published books by William Scherkenbach, Dr. Anita Simonton, Ron McCoy, Dr. Lisa D. McNary, Ed Zunich, Maury Cotter, Lou Schultz, and several others.

Our newsletter, SPC INK, keeps you up to date on the activities of our company and has included articles by many luminaries in the field of quality management and data analysis, including: Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Dr. Al Phadt, Alfie Kohn, Dr. Lisa McNary, Dr. Henry R. Neave, Raymond Phillips, Dr. Paul Seldon, Dr. Peter Senge, Dr. Anita Simonton, Dr. Myron Tribus, Clare Crawford-Mason, Lloyd Dobyns, Mary Walton, Dr. Robert Wubbolding, Ed Zunich…and of course, Dr. Donald J. Wheeler. Many of these articles can still be found in the Reading Room on this Web site. Over the years this newsletter has morphed from a very popular print piece to an electronic format. To receive your free subscription, contact us and write SPC INK in the subject line.