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“The GeoSpring suffered from an advanced-technology version of ‘IKEA Syndrome.’ It was so hard to assemble that no one in the big room wanted to make it. Instead they redesigned it. The team eliminated 1 out of every 5 parts. It cut the cost of the materials by 25 percent. It eliminated the tangle of tubing that couldn’t be easily welded. By considering the workers who would have to put the water heater together—in fact, by having those workers right at the table, looking at the design as it was drawn—the team cut the work hours necessary to assemble the water heater from 10 hours in China to two hours in Louisville.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-insourcing-boom/309166/?single_page=true

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