Leak Detector Game

Leak Detector Design

Your company currently sells two models of Bottle Manufacturing Leak Detectors. As the bottles come down the line, your machines squeeze the bottles and measure the pressure at beginning and end. If there’s a drop in pressure, then it knows there’s a leak and that bottle gets kicked off the line.

Marketing sees a big opportunity in the aseptic dairy market where they need to detect very small holes since the issue is not leakage, but rather the contents going rancid due to the hole. Your bigger more expensive machine can indeed detect such small holes, but it is too big, too slow, and too expensive for that market. Your lower-end machine is at a competitive price point, can operate at the line speeds common in this market, and is small enough to fit on their lines; unfortunately, it cannot detect holes that small.