News from MATRIZ

July 26, 2003 Information letter ? 18/2003. Events at the International TRIZ Association – a congress, a conference and meetings of its Presidium

Dear colleagues! 1. The 5th correspondence meeting of the International TRIZ Association Presidium took place from February … Read More

Book Review: “Unified Structured Inventive Thinking – an Overview”

by Ellen Domb, editor@triz-journal.com

Unified Structured Inventive Thinking — an Overview by Ed Sickafus. 50 pages. Available free from www.u-sit.net in either PDF or doc format. © 2001. The purpose of a book review is usually to tell the reader … Read More

Using Value-Engineering Analysis + TRIZ Method For Improving The Stripping Grain-Harvesting Machine

By: Peter Chuksin, Alexander Skuratovich, Nikolay Shpakovsky This article was first published in Russian on the site http://www.trizminsk.org

INTRODUCTION High quality of products is one of the main prerequisites for a company’s success on the world market. The quality of … Read More

Asymmetry

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

Introduction This article explores the nature and use of Asymmetry as a strategy for solving problems. It was inspired through a combination of interesting findings concerning … Read More

Preview of a New English Translation of a TRIZ Book

By: Vladimir Petrov vladpetr@netvision.net.il

INTRODUCTION Dear reader, I’d like to introduce you to the first book in the series “Professional TRIZ.”1 The theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) is a science that allows creative problems in any field of knowledge … Read More

“Logical Enhancement of ASIT”

By: Takahara Toshio takahara-t@m.ieice.org

0. Preface After TRIZ (the acronym for “Theory of Inventive Problem Solving” in Russian) was developed, many articles have been issued [1] and many improvements including ASIT (the acronym for “Advanced Systematic Inventive Thinking”) [6-8] have … Read More

Invention Quality Measurement (IQM) 1. Patent Valuation. The Methods That TRIZ Forgot

By: Barry Winkless

Barry Winkless, MSc. AMT Ireland bwinkless@eircom.net University College Cork

Dr. John Cooney Researcher School of Business and Governance University College Cork

‘The current emphasis on innovation as … Read More

Answers to “The Enigmas From GENERATOR”

By: Nikolay Shpakovsky and Elena Novitskaja Nikolay Shpakovsky and Elena Novitskaja triztrainer@nm.ru http://gnrtr.com

In the last issue of the journal, we proposed some enigmas to our readers. All of them are based on the ideas described in old and modern … Read More

Systematic Innovation In Service Design Through TRIZ

By: Jun Zhang, Kay-Chuan Tan, Kah-Hin Chai

Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, 119260, Singapore Email: engp2383@nus.edu.sg

ABSTRACT This paper proposes an innovative service design approach by integra ting the Theory of … Read More