The industrial concept “continuous improvement” is helping cell therapy developers and their CDMOs make production processes more efficient. Continuous improvement emerged in the mid-1980s from the Japanese idea of Kaizen – “good change” – which is the practice of reassessing and tweaking processes on a continual basis in real time. The approach has been used in various industries to optimize complex processes with maintenance monitoring in the automotive industry being one of the most widely cited examples. Cell therapy firms…