s This research sets up a conceptual design of a future mobile or portable healthcare device using the quality function development (QFD) with the analytic network process (ANP) and the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ). We propose a three-stage QFD in order to consider customers’ requirements, extend the whole design process, and calculate the priorities of the left-hand-side element...

The paper illustrates an original model and a dialogue-based software application that have been developed by integrating the logic of ARIZ with some OTSM-TRIZ models, in order to guide a user, also with no TRIZ background, to the analysis of inventive problems. The dialogue-based procedure brings to the construction of a model of the inventive problem, which is used both to trigger new solutio...

ambiguous and subjective (Ang et al., 2010). Over the years, the classical TRIZ has been studied and extended to embrace broader features and inventive principles. This study led to the development of a new TRIZ matrix, which contained up to 48 features, with 77 inventive principles (Mann et al., 2003). Several years later, the study of TRIZ had brought to another matrix, which comprised 50 fea...

Inventive design implies solving problems for which no known typical solution does exist. Designing a new system means building a representation of a concept that could be recognised and validated as a solution. Which knowledge is useful to represent a specific problem? What is the nature of this useful knowledge? Which amount of knowledge is required to solve a problem? What is an adequate way...

Recreating the service can lead to the innovation of new ones. One of the methods of creating or recreating the service is by using the systematic innovation method, such as TRIZ – the theory of inventive problem solving. TRIZ has a range of powerful tools to solve the problem and the most widely used method is to identify the contradictions in the system, and to use the 40 inventive principles...

Companies are facing cut throat competition and are forced to continuously perform better than their competitors. In order to enhance their position in the competitive world, organizations are improving at a faster pace. Industrial organizations must be used to the new ideals, such as innovation. Today, innovative design in the development of new products has become a core value in most compani...

This paper outlines a new model for understanding biological invention, based upon an extensive study of human inventiveness originating in Russia shortly after the Second World War. This science, known as the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving and referred to by the Russian acronym TRIZ, relies upon the study of human patents to reveal general principles of invention. TRIZ recognizes two dist...