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REACTION PAPER : STATISTICAL THINKING AND ITS ROLE FOR INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS AND MANAGERS IN THE 21st CENTURY

The organization such as manufacturing and service industries currently not using statistical thinking on the way they make decision and solve the problem. They usually do problem solving and make fast decision based on “fire fighting”, and actually so many problems occurs on the manufacturing and or service industries but how to solve the problem is just solve on the temporary way (spot by spot) without consideration of statistical thinking which consider on continues improvement and reduce variation. It is happened because industrial engineers and manager who responsible to manage the company has lack of statistical education and knowledge. They do daily work and task as usual and make decision or problem solving based on their experience they met before. Most of the managers and industrial engineers do not use a statistical way of thinking in making decisions. The managers have to think the problem as a system as it is explained in the article that ‘All work is a system of i