Links to Shewhart and Deming works:
http://www.flowmap.com/documents/pragmatism.pdf
http://www4.pucsp.br/pos/filosofia/Pragmatismo/cognitio_estudos/cog_estudos_v6n2/cognitio_estudos_v6n2_JARVILEHTO.pdf
https://jyx.jyu.fi/dspace/bitstream/handle/123456789/37178/9789513945657.pdf?sequence=1