Case Study – Applying the TRIZ Methodology to Machine Maintenance

By: John Cooney, Darrell Mann

John Cooney Academic Researcher School of Business and Government National University of Ireland, Cork j.cooney@ucc.ie

Darrell Mann Director CREAX nv, Ieper, Belgium darrell.mann@creax.com

Barry Winkless Creax, Ireland bwinkless@eircom.net

1 Introduction For the majority of companies, … Read More

Introducing Matrix 2003 – New research and a new format for the popular TRIZ tool

By: Ellen Domb and Michael Slocum editor@the-trizjournal.com

We are very pleased to announce the publication of Matrix 2003 by Darrell Mann and Simon Dewulf of CREAX and Boris Zlotin and Alla Zusman of Ideation International. The matrix is an important … Read More

How People Interact with Objects using TRIZ and ASIT

By: Takahara Toshio takahara-t@m.ieice.org

0. Preface I discussed “technology” and “institution” in human life in a previous article, then on this basis I made clear the position of “object” especially “process object” in problem solving and gave the grounds to … Read More

The Integration Of TRIZ Problem Solving Techniques With Other Problem Solving And Assessment Tools

By: Jack Hipple

Principal Innovation-TRIZ Tampa, FL 33647 USA 813-994-9999 jwhinnovator@earthlink.net

TRIZ, as a problem-solving process, is seldom used or brought into an organization in a vacuum. There is almost always an existing structure of tools and processes in use … Read More

The Enigmas from GENERATOR

By: N. Shpakovsky & E. Novitskaya

The Enigmas from GENERATOR N. Shpakovsky & E. Novitskaya, triztrainer@nm.ru, http://gnrtr.com

Why is solving various enigmas a good way to study TRIZ? The thing is that TRIZ generalizes the massive experience gained by the … Read More

Eco-Innovative Examples for 40 TRIZ Inventive Principles

By: Hsiang-Tang Chang and Jahau Lewis Chen Hsiang-Tang Chang and Jahau Lewis Chen, jlchen@mail.ncku.edu.tw Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University Tainan, TAIWAN

Abstract Eco-innovation always needs inspiration. This paper presents eco-innovative examples for 40 TRIZ inventive principles. These … Read More

SUPPORT – Sustainable Innovation Tools Project Update

Further to the introduction in the March issue of TRIZ Journal (Reference 1), the SUPPORT project team thought that it was time to update readers on progress made on the project. The project – funded by the EU Leonardo da … Read More

TRIZ for Six Sigma – an E-book by Geoff Tennant

Reviewed by: Brian Campbell, Dr. Michael Slocum, Dr. Ellen Domb

The reviewers came across this book while doing a TRIZ search on Google. A banner advertisement for Six Sigma TRIZ caught our attention. We downloaded the demo version from www.sixsigmatriz.com … Read More

Thoughts on Fields – Is the Concept of Field indisputable?

Management Consultant Helsinki Finland pentti.soderlin@netlife.fi

Introduction Some of the basic concepts in TRIZ are the Substance-Field Analysis, Substance Field Resources, and the Field itself. The concept of Field differs from the one, which is customary in Physics. Further there exists … Read More

Modelling 40 Innovation Principles with “Moving Little People”

By: Pavel Livotov Pavel Livotov, Ph. D. TriSolver oHG, Hanover, Germany phone +49 511 860 8343; fax +49 511 860 8345 e-mail: livotov@trisolver.com internet: www.trisolver.com

Abstract The article describes a recent approach to enhance creativity and output using 40 Innovation … Read More

The Forecast of the Ballpoint Pen Evolution

By: Yury Danilovsky and Voluslav Mitrofanov

The article shortly presents the results of forecasting research carried out at the laboratory ‘Show Sin’ as workshop training on the subject ‘The technical systems evolution and forecasting’.

The Director of the Laboratory Yury … Read More

TRIZ on Rapid Prototyping -A Case Study for Technology Foresight

By: Jörg Stelzner, Carlos Palacios, Tobias Swaton

Abstract Although TRIZ is a problem solving tool, the application of TRIZ instruments supports the strategic task such as Technology Foresight. These methods provide the ability to visualize future trends and helps to … Read More

Utilising TRIZ Methodologies to Evolve and Develop Next Generation Food Packaging Concepts

Dr John Cooney, Researcher, University College Cork, Ireland Tel: +353 86 1599027 Barry Winkless, MSc, Research Engineer University College Cork, Ireland Tel: + 353 87 9720544. © Barry Winkless and John Cooney. All rights reserved

The following article focuses on … Read More

TRIZ Patterns of Evolution as a Means for Supporting History of Technology: Analyzing the Brunelleschi’s Dome Cranes

By: Gaetano Cascini (1), Romano Nanni (2), Davide Russo (3)

(1) Università degli Studi di Firenze Facoltà di Ingegneria, Dip. di Meccanica e Tecnologie Ind.li e-mail: gaetano.cascini@unifi.it (2) Museo Leonardiano – Biblioteca Leonardiana Comune di Vinci (FI) e-mail: r.nanni@comune.vinci.fi.it (3) … Read More

40 Principles – Chemical Illustrations

By: Billy Grierson, Iain Fraser, Ailsa Morrison, Stuart Niven, Greig Chisholm Ciba Specialty Chemicals Contact: billy.grierson@cibasc.com

Introduction The origins of TRIZ are to be found in the analysis of engineering and utility patents of the former USSR. As such the … Read More

Book Review: How To Invent (Almost) Anything

By: Joe A. Miller

Title: How To Invent (Almost) Anything (ISBN 1-904298 87 7) Price £49.95 310 pages; Publisher: Spiro Press, London, England Authors: David Straker and Graham Rawlinson

How To Invent (Almost) Anything is a book that teaches us … Read More

SARS and 40 Principles For Eliminating Technical Contradictions: Creative Singapore

By: Iouri Belski, Len Kaplan, Vladimir Shapiro, Leonid Vaner, Wong Peng Wai

e-mail: school@triz4u.com, web: www.triz4u.com

Introduction The position that the Russian Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) occupies, among other creativity tools, has concerned the western world since the … Read More

TRIZ and Case Study About Bus Seats

By Ali Sen, Korhan Arun

By Ali SEN Professor of Science of Statistics at Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey ali.sen@deu.edu.tr AND Korhan ARUN TQM MS Student at Dokuz Eylül University korhanarun@hotmail.com

The countries, which are … Read More

Application Area of Thinking Tool or Problem Solving Tool

By: Takahara Toshio takahara-t@m.ieice.org

0 . Preface Different kinds of problems require different thinking tools and different problem solving tools, operating on the object of the process. The extension of TRIZ to non-technical problems makes the identification of the type … Read More

Develop New Kind Of Plough By Using TRIZ And Robust Design

By: Zhao Xinjun School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation Northeastern University, P.R.China xinjun_zhao@yahoo.com.cn

Abstract The main part of plough is the share, it digs into the soil, separates the surface soil from the bed soil and then moldboard turns it … Read More