TRIZ Features
April 2010
Len Kaplan
Attempt of Scientific Forecast
--In this 3rd article, Len Kaplan has selected numerous "local crises" that affect individual industries and areas of human activity. He attempts to describe the situation and provides answers using TRIZ to some of these situations. Read each situation and see what kind of solution concepts you could develop to resolve the problem.
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March 2010
Len Kaplan
Contemporary Crisis
A friend of mine from Russia wrote me recently, “Len, I’m interested in other questions, and these questions should be interesting to you as US citizen, namely: influence of postindustrial world on countries, how the informational technologies affect evolution of human civilization, role of economy, including transformations of economy nowadays and in future, role of financial institutions in life of contemporary civilizations.”
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February 2010
Young Ju Kang
The Automotive industry is one of the most competitive areas and there are several technical issues like global warming and depletion of crude oil. Also the period for developing new car becomes shorter and shorter. This situation makes car industry desires more efficient innovation and it is why Hyundai-Motors introduced TRIZ into their R&D parts.
TRIZ covers several areas of R&D projects. Usually it is used for patent circumvention, system and process improvement, cost reduction, and new development of products. There are several steps for solving problem. All the categories of TRIZ need analytical stage.
The most popular tool for analysis is function analysis (FA). If the system is stable and existing, FA is very powerful method for understanding system. But if the project is for New Development of the System or technical forecasting, it is not suitable to use FA directly. In this paper, new modeling method will be discussed for new product development.
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January 2010
Howard Smith
There isn’t a business that doesn’t want to be more creative in its thinking. According to one study, 75% of CEOs of the fastest growing companies claim their strongest competitive advantage is unique products and services and the distinct business processes that power them to market—innovation by another name. In another survey, Boston Consulting Group reported that 90% of organizations believe innovation is a strategic priority for 2004 and beyond. The trend was also confirmed by research undertaken by consulting firm Strategos. Their conclusion: the importance of innovation in all sectors is growing, and growing significantly.
In today’s ever-changing economic landscape, inventiveness has become a key factor influencing strategic planning. IT guru Kevin Kelly once said, “Wealth flows directly from innovation … not optimization … wealth is not gained by perfecting the known.” Efficiency, while a necessary condition for business success, is insufficient to sustain growth over decades. While new levels of efficiency and productivity require inventive solutions, the goal of efficiency is not the same as the goal of innovation.
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December 2009
José M. Vincente Gomila
The view of systems in not exclusive to TRIZ, however the integration of a systemic vision, funtions described as s-fields interactions and the ideality law of eolution are about TRIZ, and these bundled together can help organizations to value better its business model and so try to go one step beyond by easily defining new business models and assessing better the new technologies that may enable them.
The author tries to show this approach by analysing several cases, two known cases plus a still existing case whis is yet to evolve.
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October 2009
Valeri V. Souchkov
Today we need to continuously innovate if we want to maintain leadership – either we want to lead business or people. It means that we need to develop and possess relevant thinking skills to be able to constantly come up with new winning ideas. But what are the differences between “regular” and “power” thinking skills?
In the article, Valeri would like to summarize 14 differences based on many years of observations. Certainly, there are more differences. However his goal was to identify the most universal, important and influential ones which form entire categories of differences.
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September 2009
TRIZfest-2009
Over 100 TRIZ specialists from 14 countries participated in TRIZfest-2009, which took place July 25-29 2009 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The participants delivered over 50 papers in English and Russian. Both languages were served with synchronous translation.
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August 2009
Isak Bukhman and Stephen Brown
To identify the right problem and solve it quickly, or to invent at the highest level of creativity, engineers need to leverage scientific and technical knowledge, often beyond their immediate personal experience or field of expertise. Engineers must be able to find appropriate concepts from among thousands of scientific effects and from tens of millions of articles, patents, and other sources of information.
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Read more: Computer-Assisted Problem Analysis Via Semantically Extracted Experience
TRIZ Features
July 2009
Ashfaq Ishaq, PhD
This month's article is not a true TRIZ Feature article but goes to the Super-system of why we need TRIZ in all of our lives.
This article was written by Ashfaq Ishaq, Ph D, FRSA Executive Director, International Child Art Foundation.
Creativity is a quintessential attribute of human beings. When combined with our ability to record and benefit from accumulated knowledge, it makes us the highest-order species on the planet. Humans have not yet achieved our full creative potential, however, primarily because every child’s creativity is not properly nurtured. The critical role of imagination, discovery and creativity in a child’s education is only beginning to come to light, and even within the educational community, many still do not appreciate or realize its vital importance.
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June 09
Prakasan Kappoth
Product development is becoming more important even for service organizations across the world. The companies, especially from the low cost destination like India and China are playing an important role in realizing product faster. Technology companies, including start-ups, move portions of design and development to service companies across the globe. The expectation from these organizations is now to provide the services for identifying the suitable market segment, creating new features and in every phase in the product conceptualization.
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March, 2009
Dr. Noel Leon Rovira
To select the winners, expert criteria had been used up to now, which in many cases was strongly influenced by subjectivity.
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Read more: Methodology for the Evaluation of the Innovation Level of Products and Processes
February, 2009
Donald Coates
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December, 2008
Manabu Sawaguchi
I want to propose "Creative Risk Management Based on Reverse Thinking (CRMBRT)" as one of the Future- oriented Risk Management Techniques in this paper. I’ve developed this method (CRMBRT) by using examples from "Subversive Analysis (SA)" as the origin of "Anticipatory Failure Determination (AFD)" developed by Ideation Inc. AFD is one of the contemporary TRIZ techniques. Therefore, it is clear that CRMBRT is in the TRIZ field.
To be more precise, based on this way of subversive thinking, CRMBRT initially requires us to create a lot of "bad ideas" for bringing failures or accidents in the system into reality, with the utilization of not only inventive principles in TRIZ but also functional analysis in VE by involving the environmental resources around the society, so that CRMBRT can clarify the mechanism of "Dangerous Scenarios (DS)" about "Unknown Risks (UR)" in the near future.
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Read more: Creative Risk Management Based on Reverse Thinking Helping with "Innovation"
November, 2008
Noel Leon Rovira
The purpose of this paper is to describe the development process of a new solar collector concept that allows achieving the performance of vacuum tube solar collectors but at the price of flat plate solar collectors. It is shown how the TRIZ methodology helped to solve technical and physical contradictions during the development process.
Keywords: Solar energy, Solar collector, TRIZ
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Read more: Vacuum Chamber Solar Collector Development Using TRIZ Methodology
October, 2008
Prakasan Kappoth
The process of designing technology products has to undergo changes in today’s high tech industry because of many external fluctuations, complexity of a global market and increased uncertainty. Changing customer requirements, fluctuating market trends and market segments, integrating several technologies, and linking with multiple industries to create a bigger consumer spectrum has made the traditional way of conceiving product features difficult.
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Read more: Designing features for next generation technology products Role of TRIZ tools
September, 2008
Umakant Mishra
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August, 2008
Victor Fey
Genrikh Saulovich Altshuller was born on October 15, 1926 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (formerly the USSR) to a family of journalists. A few years later, the family moved to Baku, Azerbaijan (USSR).
Altshuller was awarded his first author's certificate (the Soviet-era equivalent of a patent) for a diving gear when he was in the tenth grade. While in high school, he also built and tested a boat with a jet engine that used carbide as fuel.
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