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At the beginning of the 1930s, Walter Shewhart, Harold F. Dodge, and Harry G. Romig laid down the theoretical basis for utilizing statistical methods in quality control of industrial products, but such methods were not used to any great extent until the beginning of World War II. Products that were composed of a large number of parts often failed, despite the fact that they were made of individual high‐quality components.

An important achievement was made in the 1930s by the Swedish professor Waloddi Weibull (1887–1979) during his studies of the strength of materials. In Weibull (1939), he laid the basis for one of the most important probability distributions in reliability theory, the Weibull distribution (Weibull 1951).