WillyL Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 A Japanese soap manufacturing company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a box of soap that was empty. Management tasked its engineers to solve the problem permanently to avoid any reoccurrence. The engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soapboxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. They will have to work hard and fast. But a rank-and-file employee that was posed the same problem came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daffy D Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 That is great - Love it :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warfie Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 How embarrassing... I'm an engineer and I immediately started thinking of high tech solutions too... hahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumbojumbo Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Reminds me of the Americans spending millions on a zero gravity pen in space. The Russians used pencils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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