Why Reinvent The Wheel? The Efficacy Of Systematic Problem Solving Method TRIZ And Its Value For Innovation In Engineering And Its Implications For Engineering Management

By: Dr. Paul R. Filmore, Dr. Pete Thomond Dr. Paul R. Filmore pfilmore@plymouth.ac.uk Senior Lecturer School of Computing, Communications & Electronics University of Plymouth UK

And Dr. Pete Thomond pete@insightcentre.com Innovation Consultant The Insight Centre Ltd UK

ABSTRACT The engineering … Read More

Thermal Deformations in Engineering

By: Alexander Kynin, Seunglhee Suh, Seungheon Han

Alexander Kynin a.kynine@samsung.com, Seunglhee Suh, Seungheon Han SAMSUNG Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd., South Korea.

The most part of the materials changes its volume under the influence of temperature.

Accordingly, the part of the system, … Read More

Use of TRIZ to develop a novel auto-focus camera module

By: Hayong JUNG, Jaeyoung BAE, Seunghee SUH, Hyunju YI

Auto-focus cameras generally change focal length by altering the distance between two solid lenses, requiring moving parts, large dimensions, and high power consumption. It is therefore difficult to adapt this technology … Read More

Applied TRIZ In High-Tech Industry

By: Valery Krasnoslobodtsev, Richard Langevin

Technical Innovation Center Inc., 100 Barber Avenue, Worcester, MA 01606 USA www.triz.org

ABSTRACT This paper is devoted to the practical use of TRIZ the in high-tech industry based upon the authors’ considerable experience. There are … Read More

Japan TRIZ Symposium and Newsletter update

Dear TRIZ Colleagues, “TRIZ Home Page in Japan” has been updated on June 6, 2006: Both English and Japanese Pages http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/ The Program of “The Second TRIZ Symposium in Japan, 2006” and its Call for Participation have been announced. ————– … Read More

Workshop On Computer Aided Innovation: Report of the meeting held in Karlsruhe on 11th of May 2006

Executive Summary A consultation workshop was held in Karlsruhe on the 11th of May 2006 on the broad domain of Computer Aided Innovation (CAI). Experts from European member states, candidate states and from outside Europe took part in the … Read More

Letter: Khomenko article in June 2006

LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE TRIZ-JOURNAL: COMMENTS ON “WHY TRIZ AND OTSM? WHAT ARE TRIZ AND OTSM?”

I enjoyed reading Nikolai Khomenko’s article in the June TRIZ-Journal and look forward to the rest of his series of articles. However, … Read More

Letter: TRIZ and Advertising

Editor’s note: Jim Kowalick was the founding co-editor of The TRIZ Journal, and wrote many of the articles in the first 2 years of publication, so he is an old friend of many of our readers. We thought you’d like … Read More

The Energy of Innovation: A Leadership Perspective

Prepared by Anja-Karina Pahl A.K.Pahl@bath.ac.uk Dale S. Deardorff DM. d.s.deardorff@att.net November 2005 Ongoing Discussion Host: Bill Bellows (william.j.bellows@boeing.com) for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne’s Enterprise Thinking Network

Anja-Karina Pahl A.K.Pahl@bath.ac.uk University of Bath, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering – Claverton Down, UK

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Six Sigma Trends: TRIZ Six Sigma for Cost Reduction: Strategic Breakthrough Training Based Projects

Dr. Elena Averboukh is an industry-funded professor at the University of Kassel (Germany) in Quality and Safety Control Systems and works internationally as a Six Sigma and TRIZ Master Instructor and Fellow Master Black Belt for manufacturing, transactional, design, financial … Read More

Children’s corner

Edited by: Leora C. Slocum*, Micaiah C. Slocum, and Hosannah M. Slocum (*contact at leora@slocumfamily.org)

In this Student’s Corner we’ll return to a book written by my Physics Professor in Kharkov State University, Jacob Geguzin, about properties of a … Read More

Innovative Design for Link-Type Optical Fiber Polisher

*Hsin-Sheng Lee Long-Chang Hsieh and Zhi-Yi Wang Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Formosa University Yunlin 63208, Taiwan E-mail: jennifer@nfu.edu.tw(*Corresponding author)

Abstract The link-type optical fiber polisher is roughly divided into four parts: (1) suspending device; (2) clamping device; (3) … Read More

Three-Dimensional Thinking and Job Problem

Three-Dimensional Thinking and Job Problem Andrei Kossoroukov andreiko@shaw.ca

Some time ago I was listening to a presentation of different challenges in problem solving processes. The presentation was delivered by Mike Hilton, President of Sunaptic Solutions. One of the challenges was … Read More

Book Review: Thoughtivity – A Treasure Chest

Thoughtivity for Kids by Tatiana Sidorchuk and Nikolai Khomenko reviewed by Cal Halliburton and Sue McCarthy Title: Thoughtivity for Kids: Developing Creativity, Imagination, Problem Solving and Language in ages 3-8; Through TRIZ and Other Innovation Methods: A study manual … Read More

TRIZfest-2006

Dear Colleagues! MATRIZ, the International TRIZ Association invites your participation in TRIZfest-2006 dedicated to 80th birthday of the founder of TRIZ – G.S. Altshuller with the main theme “Three Generations of TRIZ” Conference October 13-22 2006 in Saint Petersburg, Russia … Read More

Student’s Corner # 6 – Wonders Of Soap Films And Soap Bubbles

Edited by: Leora C. Slocum*, Micaiah C. Slocum, and Hosannah M. Slocum (*contact at leora@slocumfamily.org)

Most children like making soap bubbles and films, and experimenting with them, so let’s do our first experiment with soap films. Make wire frames … Read More

TRIZCON2006 Report

By Ellen Domb, editor@the-trizjournal.com

The Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies, www.aitriz.org, held its annual conference “TRIZCON2006” in Milwaukee, WI USA, April 29-May3, 2006. For the first time, this was a joint conference with the American Society for Quality, which was … Read More

The Use Of Triz Principles In Consumer Product Design

Jack Hipple Innovation-TRIZ Tampa, FL 813-994-9999 jwhinnovator@earthlink.net

The principles of TRIZ have been used extensively in manufacturing equipment and process troubleshooting and are beginning to find application in business, management, intellectual property, and strategic planning. There is a third … Read More

The Search Substance – Field

Sankt-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Department of Control Systems and Informatics Sankt-Petersburg, Russia E-mail: bushuev@inbox.ru

Introduction This is a third paper from series of work [1,2] on mathematical invention problem models. The Author has got several … Read More

The Intuition-Logic Struggle

By Ed Sickafus, Ph.D. http:// www.u-sit.net © 2005, Ntelleck LLC

Working backwards We learn in the USIT textbook the importance of a well-defined problem and how to produce one from a wealth of problem-situation information. This is the topic of … Read More