8090(@8090_Factory):Melville Bissell patented a carpet sweeper in 1876. In 1889 his wife Anna took over and became America's first woman CEO, building it into the largest company of its kind in the world and setting its early standards for trademarks and patents. BISSELL is still family-owned 150 years later. Every product is built from parts, and every part needs an approved name before engineering can start. That approval ran on Excel forms, applied by hand against rules that lived in the heads of people who have been there 40 and 50 years. We built the system that runs it now. 7,000+ parts submitted, 81.4% approved in seconds, and reviewers spend their time on the ones that need a decision. The full story:

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Melville Bissell patented a carpet sweeper in 1876. In 1889 his wife Anna took over and became America's first woman CEO, building it into the largest company of its kind in the world and setting its early standards for trademarks and patents. BISSELL is still family-owned 150 years later. Every product is built from parts, and every part needs an approved name before engineering can start. That approval ran on Excel forms, applied by hand against rules that lived in the heads of people who have been there 40 and 50 years. We built the system that runs it now. 7,000+ parts submitted, 81.4% approved in seconds, and reviewers spend their time on the ones that need a decision. The full story: