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Case 1
When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they realized pens wouldn’t work at zero gravity since the ink wouldn’t flow down to the writing surface. To solve this problem, it took them 10 years and $12 million dollars to develop a pen that would work at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, below 300 degrees Celsius, and practically on any surface including crystal. What did the Russians do?
They used a pencil.
Case 2
One of Japan’s biggest cosmetic companies received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soap box that was empty. Immediately, the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an x-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soap boxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. It worked but costed a butt-load. When a rank-and-file employee of a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not spend money for an x-ray machine. What did he do?
He bought an industrial electrical fan and pointed it at the assembly line.
Simple solutions.
