 In 1927, Deming was introduced to Walter A. Shewhart of the Bell Telephone Laboratories by C.H.Kunsman of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).Deming found great inspiration in the work of Shewhart, the originator of the concepts of statistical control of processes and the related technical tool of the control chart, as Deming began to move toward the application of statistical methods to industrial production and management.