Simplified TRIZ: New Problem-Solving Applications for Engineers & Manufacturing Professionals

✍ Scribed by Kalevi Rantanen, Ellen Domb

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 174
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As customers and shareholders demand better products faster, more pressure is felt by technical professionals to develop it now and develop it right the first time. Considered the breakthrough design and inventive problem-solving approach of the past 100 years, TRIZ is a unique, algorithmic approach to problem solving that allows engineers, planners and managers to formulate the best possible solutions for technical systems problems and predict future product needs based on technology evolution and competitive advantages. Developed in Russia, the popularity of TRIZ is now spreading to Europe, the United States, and Japan, but until now no comprehensive, comprehensible treatment of the topic has been available in English.Simplified TRIZ: New Problem Solving Applications for Engineers and Manufacturing Professionals not only demystifies TRIZ, but it also shows how it can be used in new ways to enhance Six Sigma, Constraints Management, Supply Chain Management, QFD, and Taguchi methods to gain innovative and technological competitive advantages. This practical how-to guide teaches you how to solve problems creatively, and more importantly, shows you how to find and foresee the evolution of problems in the future. It provides many exercises, worksheets, and tables to further illustrate the concepts of this multinational method. Implement the same problem-solving tool that many Fortune 500 companies are already using with Simplified TRIZ.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 0
Simplified TRIZ: New Problem Solving Applications for Engineers Manufacturing Professionals......Page 1
PREFACE......Page 3
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 7
AUTHORS......Page 8
CONTENTS......Page 9
1.1 WHY ARE GOOD IDEAS REJECTED?......Page 13
1.2.1 Three Basic Concepts for Reaching the Best Solution......Page 17
1.3 A NEW APPROACH TO PROBLEM SOLVING IS NEEDED......Page 18
REFERENCES......Page 23
INTRODUCTION......Page 24
2.1.1 Difficult Problems Contain Contradictions......Page 25
2.2 RESOURCES......Page 26
2.3 THE IDEAL FINAL RESULT......Page 27
2.4 PATTERNS OF EVOLUTION......Page 28
2.5 INNOVATIVE PRINCIPLES ACROSS INDUSTRIES......Page 30
2.6 OTHER CONCEPTS AND TOOLS......Page 31
2.7 WHY INTRODUCE THIS MODEL?......Page 33
2.8 SUMMARY......Page 34
REFERENCES......Page 35
INTRODUCTION......Page 36
3.1.1 Tradeoff......Page 37
3.2 WHY ANALYZE TRADEOFFS?......Page 38
3.3.1 Tool and Object......Page 40
3.3.2 Tradeoffs Everywhere......Page 44
3.3.4 Features......Page 46
3.3.5 The Tradeoff Between Features......Page 47
3.4.1 Where Does the Tradeoff Appear?......Page 49
3.4.2 When Does the Tradeoff Appear?......Page 51
3.4.3 Nine Screens......Page 52
3.4.4 How to Decide Whether to Develop the System or Remove It......Page 53
3.4.5 How to Identify the Right Problems to Solve......Page 56
3.6 SUMMARY......Page 58
REFERENCES......Page 63
INTRODUCTION......Page 64
4.1 HOW TO FORMULATE THE INHERENT CONTRADICTION......Page 65
4.1.1 Present and Absent......Page 67
4.2 HOW TO INTENSIFY THE INHERENT CONTRADICTION......Page 69
4.3 EXAMPLES......Page 71
4.4 SUMMARY......Page 72
REFERENCES......Page 73
INTRODUCTION......Page 74
5.1 INVISIBLE RESERVES......Page 75
5.3 DIFFERENT RESOURCES......Page 78
5.4.1 Resources of the Tool and the Object......Page 80
5.4.2 Resources of the Environment......Page 81
5.4.3 Using the Macrolevel......Page 83
5.4.4 The Microlevel Resources......Page 84
5.4.6 Space Resources......Page 85
5.4.7 Other Resources......Page 86
5.6 SUMMARY......Page 87
REFERENCES......Page 88
INTRODUCTION......Page 89
6.1 THE LAW OF INCREASING IDEALITY......Page 90
6.2 CONSTRUCTING SOLUTIONS FROM RESOURCES......Page 94
6.3 SUMMARY......Page 98
REFERENCES......Page 99
INTRODUCTION......Page 100
7.1 EVALUATION CRITERIA......Page 101
7.2 MEASURES OF EVALUATION......Page 102
7.3 EXAMPLES OF EVALUATION......Page 104
7.4 IMPROVEMENT OF THE SOLUTION......Page 106
7.4 SUMMARY......Page 109
INTRODUCTION......Page 111
REFERENCE......Page 116
INTRODUCTION......Page 117
9.1 THE UNEVEN EVOLUTION OF SYSTEMS......Page 118
9.2 TRANSITION TO MACROLEVEL......Page 119
9.3 TRANSITION TO MICROLEVEL......Page 122
9.4 THE INCREASE OF INTERACTIONS......Page 125
9.4.4 Introduction of Action......Page 127
9.5 EXPANSION AND CONVOLUTION......Page 128
9.7 BENEFITS FROM UNDERSTANDING THE PATTERNS OF EVOLUTION......Page 131
9.9 SOME NUANCES IN THE USE OF PATTERNS......Page 133
REFERENCE......Page 135
CHAPTER 11: EVALUATION OF THE MODEL FOR PROBLEM SOLVING......Page 136
REFERENCE......Page 137
CHAPTER 12: HOW TO IMPROVE BUSINESS WITH TRIZ......Page 138
12.1 TYPICAL OBSTACLES TO THE ADOPTION OF TRIZ......Page 139
12.3 IMPLEMENTING THE STEPS OF THE FLOWCHART......Page 140
12.3.1 Step 1......Page 142
12.3.2 Step 2......Page 143
12.4.1 Step 3......Page 147
12.5 SUMMARY......Page 150
REFERENCES......Page 151
CHAPTER 13: USING TRIZ WITH THE THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS......Page 152
13.1 THE CHALLENGER CURRENT REALITY TREE......Page 154
REFERENCES......Page 160
INTRODUCTION......Page 162
14.1 METHODS OF INTRODUCING TRIZ INTO SIX SIGMA......Page 164
REFERENCES......Page 167
CHAPTER 15: BOOK SUMMARY: CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING IN A NUTSHELL......Page 168
REFERENCES......Page 170
CHAPTER 16: GET STARTED......Page 171
GLOSSARY......Page 172
REFERENCES......Page 174