Post on 20-Feb-2015
Development of a TRIZ Tool
Expanding Design Creativity:Accessing the world wide web of
inspiration through TRIZ
Ivan Aparicio
TRIZ• The theory of inventive problem solving
Developed by Genrich Altshuller beginning in 1946. Altshuller and his team put 1500 man-hours into analysing over 2 million patents.
TRIZ• Principal Axiom:
o “The evolution of all technical systems is governed by objective laws.”
• Also:
o There are only about 1500 basic types of problem, and they can be solved through the combination of 40 inventive principles.
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• TRIZ doesn’t ‘close the circle’.
• The problem solving process is heavily reliant on the expertise of the thinker (especially for very technical problems).
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TRIZ• Remembering the Axiom:
o There are only about 1500 basic types of problem, and they can be solved through the combination of 40 inventive principles.
• Corollary:
o “Somebody someplace has already solved this problem (or one very similar to it).”
o If somebody has done it, it is probably somewhere on the internet.
Search Engine
• A gateway into a boundless source of information.
• Engineered to retrieve information according to specifications of the user.
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Relevant Web Content
• Patents• Effects – Journals on Emerging
developments• Wiki
• Ultimately: Formation of specialised databases intended for the purpose
Project
Design Brief of a TRIZ based Problem Solving Search Engine.
Investigation into the integration of TRIZ tools into an Information Retrieval system
• Yanhong Liang, R.T.J.M., 2008. Patent Analysis with Text Mining for TRIZ. Hebei: IEEE Institute of Design for Innovation, Hebei University of Technology.
• Altshuller, G., 1996. And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared. 1st ed. Translated by L. Shulyak. Worchester, Massachusets, U.S.A.: Technical Innovation Center.
• Fox, M.L., 2008. The Lenses of TRIZ. In Da Vinci and the 40 answers. Wizard Academy Press.
• Katie Barry, E.D.M.S.S., n.d. TRIZ - What is TRIZ? The TRIZ Journal.
• Liddy, E., 2002. How a Search Engine Works. In A.P. Mintz, ed. Web of Deception. Medford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Cyber Age Books. pp.197-207.
• Mann, D., 2003. TRIZ as a local and global knowledge framework. Systematic Innovation, April. pp.1-8.
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