MEET – OPEN PROBLEMS: Two cases from practice

By Anatoly Guin, Universal Solver Lab, Head guin@trizway.com

Thirty “brains” – winners of school Olympiads – were combat-ready. They had just been given problems to solve, and the countdown had begun… Twenty minutes later I came up to one apparently … Read More

TRIZ and Software Fini

By: Ron Fulbright Director, Information Management & Systems University of South Carolina Spartanburg Spartanburg, SC 29302 rfulbright@uscs.edu

1 Introduction In [1] and [2], Rea discusses software engineering analogs to Altshuller’s 40 principles of innovation. However, Rea did not list analogs … Read More

Some Principles Are More Common Than Others – 40 Management Principles In Frequency Order

By: Darrell Mann

CREAX Phone: +44 7980 864028 darrell.mann@creax.com

Introduction Preceding the official launch of the business and management version of the Hands -On Systematic Innovation book (Reference 1), this article examines some of the research conducted for the book … Read More

Letter to the Editor Re: [TRIZUK] TRIZ dictionary

From: INTERNET:TRIZUK@yahoogroups.co.uk Date: 6/17/2004, 7:04 AM Re: [TRIZUK] TRIZ dictionary

Dear Sirs! My name is Yuna Komarcheva, and I am the granddaughter of G.S. Altshuller, the creator of TRIZ.

The G.S. Altshuller official fund http://www.altshuller.ru/world/eng/fond.asp was set up in … Read More

TRIZ Home Page in Japan – Updated (Jun. 16, 2004) (Announcement)

From: Toru Nakagawa, INTERNET:nakagawa@utc.osaka-gu.ac.jp Date: 6/17/2004, 10:42 AM Re: “TRIZ Home Page in Japan” Updated (Jun. 16, 2004) (Announcement)

Dear TRIZ Colleagues,

“TRIZ Home Page in Japan” (English pages and Japanese pages) has been updated on June 16, 2004. http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/ … Read More

ETRIA – Call for Paper – Final Announcement – 4th TRIZ Future Conference

Florence (Italy), November 3-5, 2004

TRIZ the “Theory of Inventive Problem Solving” is a living science and a practical methodology: millions of patents have been examined and analysed to look for principles of innovation – to study the patterns of … Read More

Comparing The Classical and New Contradiction Matrix – Part 2- Zooming In

By: Darrell Mann Director CREAX +44 7980 864028 darrell.mann@creax.com

Introduction This article represents the second of a pair examining the differences between the original Contradiction Matrix of Classical TRIZ (Reference 1) and the 2003 updated version (Reference 2). In this … Read More

ETRIA – What is going on with TRIZ?

What is going on with TRIZ? In order to inform the members of ETRIA about activities in the field of innovation and especially TRIZ, we want to establish a Newsletter at least three times per year. The ideas and proposals … Read More

Book Review: How To Develop Winning New Product Ideas Systematically

By: Roni Horowitz, Reviewed by Larry Ball, and John Terninko, Edited by Ellen Domb editor@the-trizjournal.com Details: 145 pages. Published in April, 2004, as an e-book in PDF format. Download from www.start2innovate.com for US$57.

Editor’s note: We invited two reviewers to … Read More

Mapping the Innovation Space One: Novel Tools for Problem Definition in Product Innovation

By: Barry Winkless, Dr. John Cooney

Barry Winkless Hdip, MSc (bwinkless@altrantech.ie) Dr. John Cooney (jcooney@altrantech.ie) Altran Technologies Ireland.

Abstract The following article introduces and describes two novel problem definition tools. The tools include the Concurrent Problem Definition Tool, and the … Read More

innotool – Innovation Toolbox For SMEs

By: Darrell Mann

The Innotool project is an EU-funded research programme aimed at developing innovation tools specifically for use by SMEs. Project lead comes from the Industrial Liaison department at the University of Leoben in Austria. Partners involved in the … Read More

Case Study Based on TRIZ: Speedy Cutting off Valve

By: Cao Guozhong, Tan Runhua, Zhang Ruihong

Institute of Design for Innovation, Hebei University of Technology Tianjin, 300130, P.R.China Tel: +86-022-2656-4871 E-mail: cgzghx@163.com

Abstract: After investigating the operation of the TRT system of the blast furnace and analyzing the structure … Read More

A Typical Example of Innovative Design Based on the TRIZ

By: Feng Yuan, T.Y. Wang

Feng Yuan Tianjin University Tianjin 300072,China Yuanfeng509@sohu.com

T.Y. Wang Tianjin University Tianjin 300072,China tywang@tdme.tju.edu.cn

Abstract This article introduced a concept design of a machine used to bottle paint. Some technical contradictions occurred in the design, … Read More

TRIZ Talk: Three Communication Networks

editor@the-trizjournal.com There are three communications networks active in the English-speaking TRIZ community right now, and all host interesting discussions, and invite new participants of every level of TRIZ—new beginner through advanced expert. I have asked the hosts of each system … Read More

Creative Design Of Wafer Transport Mechanism

By: Long-Chang Hsieh and Hsin-Sheng Lee

Long-Chang Hsieh and Hsin-Sheng Lee, jennifer@sunws.nhust.edu.tw Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Huwei University of Science and Technology Yunlin, TAIWAN

Abstract At present, the vacuum robot commonly used by semiconductor factories can be roughly … Read More

TRIZ-Boeing

In the high-tech world of aircraft design and manufacture, solutions to complex problems don’t grow on trees. Or do they? Talk to Wichita’s Don Masingale, and he’ll tell you that TRIZ (pronounced trees) holds the answer to about any … Read More

40 Inventive Principles with Examples for Chemical Engineering

Principle 1. Segmentation A. Divide an object into independent parts. o The concept and use of independent unit operations in chemical engineering o The use of different components of a unit operation to allow variable processing as a function of … Read More

ASIT case study: Documentation problem at An Indian telecom company

It started during a discussion with one of the General Managers of a telecom company in India, who was not able to figure out a vigorous solution to reduce non-compliance in documentation.

Before we start with the case and the … Read More

Lean TRIZ

By Brian Campbell, campbellbri@yahoo.co.uk

Introduction A while back Ellen Domb gave me some excellent advice. I had been talking to her about how hard it is to convince people about TRIZ. “What you have to remember is that people are … Read More

Leaning on TRIZ

by Michael S. Slocum, Ph.D., T.Sc., M.B.B. Vice President of Research and Development Breakthrough Management Group

anything new.” –Albert Einstein (1879-1955) “Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.” –Albert Szent-Gyorgi, … Read More