One of the biggest Japanese cosmetics companies received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was empty. The company isolated the problem to the proper assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department.  For some unknown reason, very rarely, a soapbox passed through the assembly line empty.  Management asked the engineers department to solve the problem.

Big Company Solution

The engineers department constructed  an ...

 

Small Company Solution

 

When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens would not work at zero gravity (ink will not flow down to the writing surface).

NASA Solution:

To solve this problem, it took NASA one decade and $12 million. They developed ...