Marketers are always coming up with new names for improved products, but it seems they don't expect their customers to be able to count higher than five. Remember Intel's "Pentium" chip? They invented the word "pentium" from the Greek word "penta" for five and the Latin ending ium. It followed a series of chips numbered 8086, 186, 286, 386 and 486. But instead of moving on to "Hexium" for the next generation of chip, Intel next produced "Pentium II" and "Pentium III".
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If you've had any exposure to Lean Manufacturing, you'll be familiar with the term Poka Yoke, invented by lean guru Shigeo Shingo in the 1960s. It means mistake-proofing....
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In January 2018, the US Department of Commerce slapped a tariff ranging from 0.65% to 9.93% on Canadian producers of uncoated groundwood paper. This followed a tariff app...
