by Sevtap Erdogan, MS Candidate, serdogan@vt.edu Unlike other traditional manufacturing practices such as mass production and craft manufacturing, the Kaizen production management method is a determined technique to achieve quality, functionality, and prices to sustain product competitiveness (Modarress et al., 2005). Kaizen comes from the Japanese term (“Kai” meaning “change” and “Zen” meaning “good”) used … Continue reading RESEARCH BRIEF: Kaizen Continuous Improvement and the Wood Products Industry