The Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research (SQC & OR) Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute was established in the year 1974 with the objective of helping industries in Andhra Pradesh and industries of other states close to Hyderabad for promoting and propagating statistical and quality management methodologies.
The SQC & OR Unit, Hyderabad is one of the major Units of the SQC & OR Division of the Indian Statistical Institute created by Professor Mahalanobis exclusively for helping the Indian industries in managing quality and productivity problems.
SQC & OR Unit, Hyderabad has immensely contributed to the Division's activities such as
Playing a pioneering role in the Quality Movement in India and setting path for quality control and improvement activities for the Indian industries through promotion and applications of statistical and operations research methodologies.
Serving the industries in India and abroad over the last five decades by providing training and consultancy on quality concepts and methodologies such as TQM, Taguchi Methods, Quality Function Deployment, Six Sigma, Quality Systems.
Collaborating and exchanging ideas with quality gurus. Some experts like Shewhart, Deming, Juran, Taguchi, Ishikawa, Ott, Tippet and Suda visited ISI at various points of time and interacted with ISI faculty.
