This paper discusses the usefulness of an ontology for TRIZ and is an attempt to provide its readers (researchers, industrialists, educators, students) with answers regarding elementary questions they may have concerning TRIZ groundings and potential uses. These answers have the main objective to clarify how they may locate their perceptions of TRIZ and more easily find a way to contribute to i...

China has been the largest country in terms of the scale of higher engineering education in the world. The training plan of excellent engineers (TPEE) that launched in 2010 is to train various types of high-quality engineers and technical personnel who have strong innovative abilities and meet the need of economic and social development. The theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ), as a scie...

Customers are ultimate judges of products. In order to produce the world-ranking product, customer information must be embodied in the part of production and hierarchy of control. This paper firstly points out the deficiency of QFD and the superiority of TRIZ. And then it constructs the application system of integrating QFD and TRIZ based on the theoretical rationale of the integration. The mai...

Starting in August 2004, the Hong Kong government began sponsoring a deployment of TRIZ to a cluster of eight local companies. Over the course of the next 15 months, each company was invited to assemble a team of between 5 and 8 engineers and designers each of whom would be exposed to a series of six three-day TRIZ education and utilisation sessions. The aims of the programme were for each comp...

Development of robust diagnostic solutions to monitor the health of systems and components to ensure through life cost effectiveness is often technically difficult, requiring an effective integration of design development with research and innovation. This paper presents a structured application of TRIZ and USIT (Unified Structured Inventive Thinking) to generate concept solutions for an in-ser...

In this research, a specific category of construction technologies, e.g., formwork, is selected for case study. 40 invention principles and 39 engineering parameters were applied with contradiction matrix to find out the “improving” and “deteriorating” parameters for a design case. By consulting the contradiction matrix, innovative principles can be found. It is concluded that TRIZ provides an ...

In order to solve the problems of product innovation design, an innovation model is developed. the five layers innovation design model integrates the creative methods (cluster analysis, brainstorm, TRIZ, QFD and reliable testing) and the process management method (design for the six sigma). The model take the step as following: taking advantage of the S curve of TRIZ evolution theory and design...

In the industrial context, an interest exists in the collective resolution of creative problems during the conceptual design phase. In this work we introduce an information-based software framework useful to collaborate for inventive problems solving. This framework proposes the implementation of techniques from the Collective Intelligence (CI) research field in combination with the systematic ...

Patent textual descriptions provide a wealth of information that can be used to understand the underlying design approaches that result in the generation of novel and innovative technology. This article will discuss a new approach for estimating Degree of Ideality and Level of Invention metrics from the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) using patent textual information. Patent text inc...