Food Foresight: Analysis Of The Development Patterns Of The Food Industry And Markets Using TRIZ Concepts

Food Foresight: Analysis of the development patterns of the Food Industry and markets using TRIZ concepts Jorge Oliveira, Dpt. Process Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland Phone: 353-21-4902006 e-mail: j.oliveira@ucc.ie webpage: http://www.ucc.ie/acad/departments/processeng/staff/oliveiraj.html

A small project termed Food Foresight was developed under … Read More

Comments And Reply About “Invention Quality Measurement (IQM) 1. Patent Valuation. The Methods That TRIZ Forgot” (TRIZ Journal, Sept. 2003)

Comments and reply about “Invention Quality Measurement (IQM) 1. Patent Valuation. The Methods That TRIZ Forgot” (TRIZ Journal, Sept. 2003)

From Jose Vicente: Firstly to say that the title is for me good enough. Up today most people, including those … Read More

Evolution Of Systems

Michel Lecoq iTER – Belgium tel. : + 32 4 278 1008 fax.: + 32 4 278 1009 lecoq.michel@skynet.be

Introduction This article is an attempt to formalize my thoughts about the evolution of products or of systems in general. It … Read More

The Functional – Resource Approach To The Forecasting Of Technical Systems Evolution – A Fragment From The Book “Evolution of technologies”, Chapter « Graphic and numerical methods based approach to forecasting tasks solving »

Yury Danilovsky (e-mail: UR7@mail.ru, www.showsin.ru) Voluslav .Mitrofanov (e-mail: mitrofanovvv@mail.ru) Denis Shevchenko (e-mail: dunya888@mail.ru) Laboratory of innovative research «SHOW SIN» (www.showsin.ru) The International University of Scientific and Technological Creativity (Saint Petersburg – Boston) 193036 Saint Petersburg, 3-n Soviet street,. 7, premise … Read More

Improve It By Breaking It. Examples From Journalism Show How Segmentation Helps To Make Ideas More Saleable And Cost-Effective

By Kalevi Rantanen TRIS OY Brahenk. 9 E 18 FIN-20100 TURKU, FINLAND phone/fax +358 2 251 1623 E-mail: kalevi.rantanen@kolumbus.fi http://www.kolumbus.fi/kalran Do you recognize the scene? It is Monday morning. You are sitting before your computer, but great ideas … Read More

Micro-Stories, Daisies And Dandelions. Segmentation Makes The Product Attractive Both In Journalism And In The Nature

By Kalevi Rantanen TRIS OY Brahenk. 9 E 18 FIN-20100 TURKU, FINLAND phone/fax +358 2 251 1623 E-mail: kalevi.rantanen@kolumbus.fi http://www.kolumbus.fi/kalran Before Christmas 2002 I wrote with my wife a serial newspaper story consisting of 24 microstories. My wife has … Read More

Book Review: the 121 Heuristics for Problem Solving.

Review: The 121 heuristics for problem solving. By Ellen Domb and Michael Slocum editor@the-trizjournal.com

Regular readers of The TRIZ Journal will remember the articles in the September 2000 and July 2001 issues by the authors of the new book, The … Read More

ASIT Technique For A Week, Issue 136

By: Roni Horowitz

ASITcamels.txt To: “Ellen Domb”, ellendomb From: “Roni Horowitz”, INTERNET:Roni.Horowitz@start2think.com Date: 8/20/2003, 9:12 PM Re: ASIT technique for a week, Issue 136 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ASIT Technique for a week, Issue 136 A weekly newsletter that brings you thought provoking … Read More

A New Method For Creating The Non-Technologic Principles Of TRIZ

Dr Mohammad.H Saliminamin Professor of Industrial Engineering at Faculty of Industrial Engineering , Amirkabir Polytechnic University,Tehran,Iran And President of Iran Insitute of Innovation and Technology WWW.IIITS.org Navid Nezafati PhD student of Industrial Engineering at Faculty of Industrial Engineering , Amirkabir … Read More

The Development Of The Cotton Gin, 1796 To 1844

By: William Fowlkes, Ph.D.

The initial invention Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin (short for cotton engine), a machine that could efficiently remove cotton fiber from its seeds, has been hailed as a revolutionary invention that helped fuel the … Read More

News from MATRIZ

July 26, 2003 Information letter ? 18/2003. Events at the International TRIZ Association – a congress, a conference and meetings of its Presidium

Dear colleagues! 1. The 5th correspondence meeting of the International TRIZ Association Presidium took place from February … Read More

Book Review: “Unified Structured Inventive Thinking – an Overview”

by Ellen Domb, editor@the-trizjournal.com

Unified Structured Inventive Thinking — an Overview by Ed Sickafus. 50 pages. Available free from www.u-sit.net in either PDF or doc format. © 2001. The purpose of a book review is usually to tell the reader … Read More

Using Value-Engineering Analysis + TRIZ Method For Improving The Stripping Grain-Harvesting Machine

By: Peter Chuksin, Alexander Skuratovich, Nikolay Shpakovsky This article was first published in Russian on the site http://www.trizminsk.org

INTRODUCTION High quality of products is one of the main prerequisites for a company’s success on the world market. The quality of … Read More

Asymmetry

By: Darrell Mann Director, CREAX nv, Ieper, Belgium Phone/fax: +44 (1275) 342960 E-mail: darrell.mann@creax.com

Introduction This article explores the nature and use of Asymmetry as a strategy for solving problems. It was inspired through a combination of interesting findings concerning … Read More

Preview of a New English Translation of a TRIZ Book

By: Vladimir Petrov vladpetr@netvision.net.il

INTRODUCTION Dear reader, I’d like to introduce you to the first book in the series “Professional TRIZ.”1 The theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) is a science that allows creative problems in any field of knowledge … Read More

“Logical Enhancement of ASIT”

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

0. Preface After TRIZ (the acronym for “Theory of Inventive Problem Solving” in Russian) was developed, many articles have been issued [1] and many improvements including ASIT (the acronym for “Advanced Systematic Inventive Thinking”) [6-8] have … Read More

Invention Quality Measurement (IQM) 1. Patent Valuation. The Methods That TRIZ Forgot

By: Barry Winkless

Barry Winkless, MSc. AMT Ireland bwinkless@eircom.net University College Cork

Dr. John Cooney Researcher School of Business and Governance University College Cork

‘The current emphasis on innovation as … Read More

Answers to “The Enigmas From GENERATOR”

By: Nikolay Shpakovsky and Elena Novitskaja Nikolay Shpakovsky and Elena Novitskaja triztrainer@nm.ru http://gnrtr.com

In the last issue of the journal, we proposed some enigmas to our readers. All of them are based on the ideas described in old and modern … Read More

Systematic Innovation In Service Design Through TRIZ

By: Jun Zhang, Kay-Chuan Tan, Kah-Hin Chai

Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, 119260, Singapore Email: engp2383@nus.edu.sg

ABSTRACT This paper proposes an innovative service design approach by integra ting the Theory of … Read More

Utilizing Axiomatic Design to Render Objective Ideality Calculations

Dr. Michael S. Slocum Vice President of Innovation and Design Breakthrough Management Group MichaelS@BMGi.com

The concept of the ideal final result (IFR) is an important foundational element in the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. As an abstraction, the IFR is … Read More