Altshuller’s Anniversary: The Position of the Copyright Owners

28/05/2006 | Editor

2006 is the 80th anniversary year of the birth of Genrikh Saulovich Altshuller, the creator of TRIZ – CDI (Development of creative imagination) – TCLS (Theory of Creative Life Strategy) (15.10.1926 – 24.09.1998).

This year, the Official G.S. Altshuller Foundation … Read More

Applying TRIZ in Process Improvement

19/05/2006 | Editor

Haiyan Ru, sindyru@hotmail.com Haibo Ru, browruguard-register@yahoo.com.cn TRIZ could be used not only in product innovation, but also in process improvement. It can increase the organization management efficiency and effectiveness, which is also valuable. Here we provide a case of applying … Read More

A New Paradigm for Creative Problem Solving: Six-Box Scheme in USIT without Depending on Analogical Thinking

15/05/2006 | Editor

Toru Nakagawa Osaka Gakuin University, Japan

First Presented at The 27th Annual Conference of the Japan Creativity Society held on October 29-30, 2005 at National Center of Sciences, Tokyo (in Japanese); Posted in the TRIZ Home Page in Japan on … Read More

How Solution Finds a Problem to Solve (Case Study)

07/05/2006 | Editor

Dallas, Texas, USA tepl@sbcglobal.net How Solution Finds a Problem to Solve (Case Study) After graduating from university, I was concentrated on my PhD research, which was connected with practical applications of nuclear methods for technological control in construction, one of … Read More

Student’s Corner #5 Bee and Honeycomb

05/05/2006 | Editor

Edited by: Leora C. Slocum*, Micaiah C. Slocum, and Hosannah M. Slocum (*contact at leora@slocumfamily.org) On our Student’s Corner #4 we considered inventions made by plants – corrugated structures. Now we’ll enjoy inventions made by insects, and more specifically … Read More

Better design using nature’s successful (no-compromise) solutions

02/05/2006 | Editor

Darrell Mann1 Conall Ó Catháin2 1Systematic Innovation Ltd, UK, 2Queen’s University, Belfast, UK

Abstract The paper describes a programme of work aimed at identifying and codifying design solutions from the natural world in which a trade-off or compromise has been … Read More