Matthew Barsalou

Six Sigma Master Black Belt, engineer, auditor, and author

Matthew Barsalou is an ASQ Fellow and IAQ Academician who works in the automotive industry in Germany. He is an ASQ-certified Six Sigma Black Belt, quality engineer, and quality technician; a TÜV-certified quality manager, quality management representative, and quality auditor; and a Smarter Solutions-certified lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. He has a bachelor’s degree in industrial sciences, and master’s degrees in business administration and industrial engineering, and liberal studies with emphasis in international business. Barsalou is author of the books Root Cause Analysis, Statistics for Six Sigma Black Belts, The ASQ Pocket Guide to Statistics for Six Sigma Black Belts, The Quality Improvement Field Guide, and Practical Statistical Methods for Quality, and co-author of the book Applied Statistics Manual, as well as writing research and practitioner journal papers.

Wed, 02/14/2024 - 12:01
A Chronology of Quality, Part 3 Quality in crisis
Wed, 02/20/2013 - 11:12
Editor’s note: This is part three of a four-part series about the history of quality. For a description of the earlier years in the quality movement, see part one and part two. For the later years, see part four.
While Japan was organizing…
A Chronology of Quality, Part 2 Quality in a seller’s market
Tue, 02/19/2013 - 10:39

Editor’s note: This is part two of a four-part series on the history of quality. For a description of the early years of the quality movement, see part one. For the later years, see part three and part four.
After the end of World War…
A Chronology of Quality, Part 1 The birth of the quality movement
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 11:30
Editor’s note: This is part one of a four-part series about the history of quality. For a description of the later years of the quality movement, see part two, part three, and part four.
Joseph Juran’s A History of Managing for Quality (ASQ…
Florence Nightingale Could Have Donned a Six Sigma Black Belt Her healthcare reforms are as legendary as DMAIC
Thu, 11/29/2012 - 12:16
Six Sigma was originally created by Bob Gavin at Motorola during the 1980s; however, it could be argued that a comparable methodology was in use as early as the 1850s. Florence Nightingale is known for founding the field of nursing, but few people…