- I've always been looking for how to solve a problem.

(gentle upbeat music) Whether I was working for a corporation or in my house, I was a natural problem solver.

Now I was gonna turn this into a job or career.

(upbeat music) Hi, I'm Jamie Peltz, inventor and founder of Forget Me Spot.

Forget Me Spot is a pretreatment patch that allows you to pretreat your laundry when you get home at the end of the day.

I was doing laundry for my kids.

I'm looking for stains that I don't know if they exist or not, because I wasn't the one who created the stain.

And so the idea behind it was if you could have the stain already being pretreated, mom or whoever was doing the laundry wouldn't have to go look for the stain on laundry day.

When it started, the original setup was in a basement.

I worked with a chemist who helped develop the formula.

Our first batch was probably four or five years ago, and we did maybe a thousand patches and we'd do four patches at a time.

And it took us months to do, and we sold through 'em, and I was like, I don't know how we're gonna do this.

And I had done a contest through Magnet.

I didn't win, but afterwards I started working with them on the manufacturing piece of it.

(upbeat music) - Hi, my name's Jeff Smith.

I'm a technician and shop manager here at Magnet.

We are a nonprofit centered around advancing manufacturing around Northeast Ohio.

And today we're gonna be messing around with a whole lot of soap and robots.

And so our product that we're creating here is sort of a screen printing process that was done manually.

So this is taking the place of two to three people that would normally be doing this for several hours in a day to get the same results.

And this has been programmed to do all the same tasks.

And this one complete and set of dots.

It's not a perfect process by means yet, but it definitely gets us there.

Every iteration gets a little bit better.

- You keep improving on each one.

And Jeff having spent four months using it.

In his mind he starts thinking about better ways to improve the process, and that's kind of where we are with the robotics right now.

When I look back at what we accomplished, we really pulled this off.

They didn't give up and I didn't give up.

And we kept pushing through the challenges or obstacles that we had to get there.

And they always tell you to celebrate the wins.

You know, because again, the product didn't exist.

The manufacturing didn't exist.

The supply chain didn't exist, but then it's like, okay, you're off onto the next thing.

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