Case Studies In TRIZ: Halving The Number Of Bolts Around A Flange Joint

Presented at the Invention Machine European Users Group Meeting, Munich, Oct. 1998

Darrell Mann Industrial Fellow Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY, UK Phone: +44 (1225) 826465 Fax: +44 (1225) 826928 E-mail: D.L.Mann@bath.ac.uk

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Case Study: TRIZ Solves a Hard Drive Reliability Problem

Zinovy Royzen, President TRIZ Consulting, Inc. 12013 C 12 Ave N.W., Seattle, Washington Tel: (206) 364-3116, E-mail:Zroyzen@aol.com Web site: http://members.aol.com/zroyzen/triz.html

This paper was presented at The Tenth Symposium on Quality Function Deployment, June 14-16, 1998, Novi, … Read More

TRIZ Puzzles and Examples: Part 1 Universal Socket Wrench

Jacob Skir E-mail: yakov_kad@hotmail.com

Key Words:

Disintegration, Dynamization, Contradiction Solution in Structure

Imagine a car mechanic tells you about his problem. He makes use of a wrench (more correctly they call such a … Read More

TRIZ Puzzles and Examples: Part 2 Reader’s Solutions The Tiny Car

Jacob Skir E-mail: yakov_kad@hotmail.com

First of all, my congratulations to all the three readers for their understanding the TRIZ fundamental rule: not to insert new materials but to use the given ones.

1. Mr. Jose … Read More

Integrating TRIZ-Based Methods into the Engineering Curriculum

“This paper was first presented at the Invention Machine Company Users Group Meeting, June, 1998. The software is being used in the class to give the students experience with a variety of approaches to TRIZ.”

By Timothy … Read More

(TRIZ)OE = Improving TRIZ Results by Dynamically Matching Tools to Teams

By: Steven F. Ungvari

Introduction:

Ever since its introduction to US Industry in the early 1990s, TRIZ has provided a fundamentally different approach to solving complex technological problems. TRIZ, the Russian … Read More

The Creative Person Development Theory: A review article

Gregory Frenklach gregoryf@avx.co.il

Editor’s comments appear in italics, at Gregory’s request.

The work of building of the creative person development theory was begun nearly twenty years ago. One of the reasons to start this work … Read More

Creative Imagination Development

Gregory Frenklach gregoryf@avx.co.il

Editor’s notes appear in italics, at Gregory’s request.

Here is a short review of certain methods, techniques and games which are included into TRIZ courses of Creative Imagination Development (CID). The majority of … Read More

TRIZ Puzzles and Examples: Part 1: The Tiny Car

Jacob Skir E-mail: yakov_kad@hotmail.com

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of TRIZ Puzzles and Examples that has been offered to The TRIZ Journal by Jacob Skir. We will publish the case one month, then … Read More

Eleven Uses of Effects

By Kalevi Rantanen TRIS OY E-mail: kalevi.rantanen@kolumbus.fi http://www.kolumbus.fi/kalran

New software (the last SW package is TechOptimizer Professional Edition 3.0 – TOPE – published by Invention Machine Corporation in 1998) has made physical effects increasingly popular. One advantage of effects … Read More

QFD, TRIZ, and Entrepreneurial Intuition The DelCor Interactives International Case Study

Ellen Domb, Ph.D. PQR Group, 190 N. Mountain Ave., Upland, CA 91786 USA +1(909)949-0857 FAX +1(909)949-2968 ellendomb@compuserve.com

David Corbin DelCor Interactives International, Inc. 1511-6 E. Valley Parkway, Escondido, CA 92027 USA 800 480 2949 FAX +1(760)480-0249 corb748@aol.com

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Psychological Inertia: Two kinds in one story

Ellen Domb, Ph.D. The TRIZ Institute, 190 N. Mountain Ave., Upland, CA 91786 USA +1(909)949-0857 FAX +1(909)949-2968 ellendomb@compuserve.com

©1998, Ellen Domb

The following story is not original. It has been forwarded to … Read More

PSYCHOLOGICAL INERTIA

James Kowalick, TRIZ Master Renaissance Leadership Institute (530) 692-1944 ~ E-Mail: headguru@oro.net

DEFINITION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INERTIA. The psychological meaning of the word “inertia” implies an indisposition to change – a certain “stuckness” due to human … Read More

HUMAN FUNCTIONS: THE SOURCE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INERTIA

James Kowalick, TRIZ Master Renaissance Leadership Institute (530) 692-1944 ~ E-Mail: headguru@oro.net

Psychological Inertia (PI) as defined in the article by the same title in this month’s TRIZ Journal (see Psychological Inertia by James Kowalick) … Read More

DIGGING YOUR WAY OUT OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL INERTIA HOLE

Darrell Mann, Industrial Fellow Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY, UK Phone: +44 (1225) 826465 Fax: +44 (1225) 826928 E-mail: D.L.Mann@bath.ac.uk

Much of Edward de Bono’s pioneering study on lateral thinking stemmed … Read More

Nlp + TRIZ = Accelerated Creativity for Product Designers

Karen Becker 432 Wagon Wheel Gap, Boulder, CO 80302 USA +1(303)545-0111 FAX +1(303)545-0001 kbecker@becker-associates.com

Ellen Domb, Ph.D. The PQR Group, 190 N. Mountain Ave., Upland, CA 91786 USA +1(909)949-0857 FAX +1(909)949-2968 ellendomb@compuserve.com

©1998, Karen Becker and Ellen … Read More

A new Model of the Conceptual Design Process using QFD/FA/TRIZ

Reprinted from the Proceedings of the 10th Annual Quality Function Deployment Symposium, 1998

By Dr. Noel León-Rovira and Ing. Humberto Aguayo, MSC Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada # 2501, Col. Tecnológico, … Read More

Selecting the Best Direction to Create the Ideal Product Design

John Terninko Responsible Management, Inc.

Abstract

The number of practitioners who go beyond re-mapping customer information into engineering information by using the House of Quality matrix is slowly increasing. However, few try function analysis, reliability deployment or … Read More

Altshuller Institute Formed

Ellen Domb, Ph.D. The TRIZ Institute, 190 N. Mountain Ave., Upland, CA 91786 USA +1(909)949-0857 FAX +1(909)949-2968 ellendomb@compuserve.com ©1998, Ellen Domb

Twenty-one people attended the meeting June 13, 1998, in Novi, MI, USA to form the Altshuller Institute. Lev … Read More

Optimizing Atomic Oxygen Resistance on Coated Substrates Using TechOptimizer®

(International Space Station)

Michael S. Slocum Chief Scientist The Inventioneering Company e-mail: slocum1946@aol.com phone: 714.641.0677

May 1998

ABSTRACT

The role of Champion will be a difficult and trying role. A paradigm shift … Read More