The innovation they developed is an adjustable table that attaches to the press brake to hold the piece of metal, which sits on the table rather than in employees’ hands when being bent. “Normally when you do a press brake operation, your hands can vary the pressure that they’re putting against the machine,” Garrett said. Once the piece is attached to the table, employees can move their hands away and push a pedal with their feet to prompt the machine to make the bend. The table can be attached or removed from a press brake machine in less than a minute. In spite of the huge void, within two months, the SEL team had its solution deployed, working on the project in addition to their regular responsibilities, developing and testing three iterations to learn what worked best.