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After Kok's lucrative success in slashing the production cost of CDs, he was asked by Johnson & Johnson to find similar savings in the mass production of its Vistakon line of disposable contact lenses. At the time Johnson & Johnson was manufacturing contact lenses using a system that required multiple operators and took up the space of five single-file Greyhound buses. Kok visited the firm's factory in Jacksonville, Fla., and then--on an airline napkin--sketched an invention that would manufacture the lenses in a space about half a bus long, with only a single machine operator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mister Lean | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

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