Developed in Japan just after World War II, Kaizen has been a popular and successful management philosophy that is used by many major Japanese and domestic companies to help facilities attain efficiency and production goals. Literally translating to: "good change," in an industrial sense it is the constant search for small changes to correct imperfections.

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