SUPPORT – Sustainable Innovation Tools Project

By: University of Leoben

The Industrial Liaison department at the University of Leoben in Austria is proud to announce the commencement of the SUPPORT project. The project – funded by the EU Leonardo da Vinci initiative (Reference 1) – is … Read More

Titanic TRIZ: A Universal Case Study

By: Ellen Domb, Ph.D.

Ellen Domb, Ph.D. The PQR Group, editor@the-trizjournal.com

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY When teaching TRIZ to groups of people from a wide variety of technical and cultural backgrounds, it is important to use a case study that they can … Read More

Thoughts on Substance-Field Models and 76 Standards – Do we need all of the Standards?

By: Pentti Soderlin pentti.soderlin@netlife.fi

The basic concepts in TRIZ are the Contradictions, 40 Principles, the Matrix, and the Laws of Evolution, the Substance-Field Analysis Modelling, Ideal Final Solution, Substance Field Resources, Scientific Effects and the Job Plan ARIZ. Further the … Read More

IDEALITY AND ‘SELF-X’ – Part 2: Meals, Wheels, and Carpet Slippers – Technical Case Studies

By: Darrell Mann

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

Introduction This article forms the second in a series of three discussing the importance of systems that incorporate solutions incorporating the word ‘self’ – … Read More

PROYECTO TRIZ in Nicaragua

By Hugo Sanchez dag@datatex.com.ni

It is a pleasure to inform you about our last efforts to introduce TRIZ in Central America. Recently, the University of Commercial Sciences (the oldest private University of Nicaragua) launched an initiative called in Spanish PROYECTO … Read More

Innovation Metrics: Embedding Innovation in an Organization’s Systems

by Joyce Wycoff jwycoff@thinksmart.com

Interviewer’s Note: Since launching the book, Driving Growth Through Innovation in November, 2002, Robert B. Tucker has been criss-crossing the globe spreading the message that innovation in leading firms is fast becoming an imbedded, systematic organizational … Read More

Anticipating Failures with Substance-Field Inversion – A TRIZ Methods Case Study

By: Thomas W. Ruhe

Hewlett-Packard Company Tom.Ruhe@hp.com

Anticipating failures is a powerful tool for shortening the time required to develop robust products. Inverting Standard Techniques of Substance-Field analysis allows anticipation of failures caused by a useful function not being performed. … Read More

40 Inventive Principles in Quality Management

By: Gennady Retseptor gennadyr@avx.co.il © 2003. Gennady Retseptor. AVX Israel Ltd. 972-2-5720128. All rights reserved.

The founder of TRIZ, Genrich Altshuller, discovered forty patterns of inventive solutions, known as 40 Inventive Principles, extracting them from technical patents. It was found … Read More

Software Review: “Invention Highway, Family Edition and Professional Edition”

By: Catherine Lundberg clundberg@ontro.com

Software by: Comedia Ltd. The cost is $24 and is available at: http://www.start2think.com/invhi

The Invention Highway software teaches ASIT—as you play the games, you learn 4 methods for finding innovative solutions to problems utilizing the resources … Read More

Book Review: TRIZ Companion

By Catherine Lundberg, clundberg@ontro.com

Title: TRIZ Companion Written by Darrell Mann and Simon Dewulf Publisher: Creax Press. http://www.creax.com Price: 29Euros plus shipping Paperback, 122 pages. ISBN 90-77071-03-2 (pocket-sized format) TRIZ Companion is an excellent reference that even the most skilled … Read More

Evolving the Corkscrew: A TRIZ-based Hypothesis

By: Dana W. Clarke

By Dana W. Clarke, Sr., President and CEO Applied Innovation Alliance, LLC West Bloomfield, MI , USA (248) 366-0910 www.aia-consulting.com

This brief article demonstrates how several key principles of TRIZ—Ideality, Contradictions, Systems Approach Thinking and Patterns … Read More

Let’s Make the Firework of Innovations

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

I will tell of three cases. They show how you can solve problems with the tools of TRIZ both better … Read More

Ideality and ‘Self-X’ – Part 1: Things That Do Things For Themselves

By: Darrell Mann

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

Introduction This article forms the first in a series of three discussing the importance of systems that incorporate solutions incorporating the word ‘self’ – … Read More

Christmas TRIZ – Ideality – A True Story

By: Kevin Landhuis

Recently, while wrapping some Christmas gifts, I noticed a “keg” of ribbon that my wife had purchased. Eureka, Ideality! I tried to explain the significance of this discovery to my kids and my impromptu TRIZ lesson was … Read More

Brainstorming and TRIZ

By: Brian Campbell Campbellbri@yahoo.co.uk

Brainstorming is rarely mentioned in TRIZ circles. In The Innovation Algorithm, p. 57, Altshuller discusses the technique and points how it is an improvement on trial and error, but it is much less effective than TRIZ. … Read More

Reorganizing TRIZ Solution Generation Methods into Simple Five in USIT (article)

This article is published in the TRIZ Journal courtesy of the author Toru Nakagawa. There are two parts: Full Article | Appendix

• Full article (Originally published at: http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/epapers/e2002NakaPapers/eETRIA02USIT0209/eETRIA02USIT0209.html )
• Appendix (Originally published at: http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/electures/eUSITSol0209/eUSITSolMetFull021119.html)

TRIZ/USIT Paper: … Read More

Using TRIZ to Create an Internet Address for the “GENERATOR” Website

By: Nikolay Shpakovsky and Elena Novitskaja triztrainer@nm.ru

It is very important that a new site should be based on … Read More

Book Review: “Anatomy of a fiction plot (ANATOMIYA SYUGETA)”

Book Review: “Anatomy of a fiction plot (ANATOMIYA SYUGETA)”

by Dr. Semyon Savransky* triz_sds@hotmail.com

Book Review: Alexandr Moldaver. “Anatomy of a fiction plot (ANATOMIYA SYUGETA).”(in Russian) Jerusalem, Israel, 2002.

The results of almost 20 years of the … Read More

Solution Dynamics as a Function of Resolution Method (Physical Contradiction v. Technical Contradiction)

Solution Dynamics as a Function of Resolution Method (Physical Contradiction v. Technical Contradiction)

Michael S. Slocum, K.O.St.I., Ph.D. Ontro, Inc. 13250 Gregg Street Poway, CA 92064 USA mslocum@ontro.com

Ellen Domb, Ph.D. PQR Group … Read More

Complexity Increases And Then… (Thoughts From Natural System Evolution)

Complexity Increases And Then… (Thoughts From Natural System Evolution)

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

“Life is much less a … Read More