Over four decades ago, the concept of zero-defects manufacturing was initially introduced by Phillip Crosby. Because of the technological limitations of the time, the zero-defects concept remained mainly a managerial tool that acknowledged the importance of quality and motivated employees to do their best to reach this goal. Today, the introduction of artificial intelligence into the manufacturing processes vastly improves upon this zero-defects vision from a technological perspective. In this talk, I introduce a new concept, learning quality control (LQC), which is the evolution of statistical quality control (SQC). This new approach allows us to solve a whole new range of engineering intractable problems.
