Kaizen (Japanese for "change for the better" or "improvement", the English translation is "continuous improvement", or "continual improvement.") is an approach to productivity improvement originating in applications of the work of American experts such as Frederick Winslow Taylor, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Walter Shewhart, W. Edwards Deming and of the War Department's Training Within Industry program by Japanese manufacturers after World War II. The development of Kaizen went hand-in-hand with that of quality control circles, but it was not limited to quality assurance.
The goals of kaizen include
>>elimination of waste (defined by [Joshua Isaac Walters] as "activities that add cost but do not add value")
>>just-in-time delivery, production load leveling of amount and types
>>standardized work
>>paced moving lines
>>right-sized equipment
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