>
Problems, there always will be. It is never difficult. It is us that makes it seemingly so as we do not often look beyond the issue.
>
>
>
> A difficult problem sometimes need a simple solution...................
>
> Story 1:
> When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out
> that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (Ink won't flow down to the
> writing surface).In order to solve this problem, it took them one
> decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero
> gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including
> crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300
> degrees C.
>
> And what did Russians do? They used a Pencil!!!
>
>
> Story 2:
> One of the most memorable case studies I came across on Japanese
> management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of
> Japan's biggest cosmeticscompanies. The company received a complaint that a
> consumer had bought a soapbox 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.
>
> For some reason, one soapbox went through the assembly line empty.
>
> 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 soapboxes that passed
> through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they
> worked hard and they worked fast but they spent whoopee amount to do
> so.
>
> But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the
> same problem, He did not get into complications of X-rays, etc but instead
> 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.
>
>
> Moral of the stories: Always look for simple solutions. Devise the
> simplest possible solution that solves the problem
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