Setups at our test station required the worker to walk to the back side of a bench to connect wiring.
Drilled a large hole in the bench top so the wiring could be passed through the table allowing connections under the bench from the front side.
Worker now doesn’t have to walk the 12 feet to get […]

Spreadsheet used to run laboratory (where specimens were stored) was used all day, fear was file would be closed and data would be lost. Post it had been on screen saying “Please remember to save after every entry.” This wasn’t error proofed and the post its guaranteed nothing.
Changed “auto save” function to save […]

We needed to post on-going daily and weekly metrics for our team to see. But there was no wall space we could use, for practical and aesthetic reasons.
We found a white-board on wheels that was maneuverable in our hallways. We could attach the metrics with magnets or just write on the board. […]

I couldn’t always find an email I wanted and Outlook’s search function is very very very slow. And though I created a folder structure to separate emails by project sometimes I misfiled.
Installed the Google search plug-in for Outlook (part of Google Desktop)
I can search all the fields of all my emails in one or two […]

Blue ink bleeds from the back of our business cards to the front of the adjacent card when carried in a wallet.
Stack cards front-side to front-side.
Now blue ink bleeds to blue ink almost eliminating all bleeding on the fronts of cards.
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