TRIZfest-2006

Dear Colleagues! MATRIZ, the International TRIZ Association invites your participation in TRIZfest-2006 dedicated to 80th birthday of the founder of TRIZ – G.S. Altshuller with the main theme “Three Generations of TRIZ” Conference October 13-22 2006 in Saint Petersburg, Russia … Read More

Student’s Corner # 6 – Wonders Of Soap Films And Soap Bubbles

Edited by: Leora C. Slocum*, Micaiah C. Slocum, and Hosannah M. Slocum (*contact at leora@slocumfamily.org)

Most children like making soap bubbles and films, and experimenting with them, so let’s do our first experiment with soap films. Make wire frames … Read More

TRIZCON2006 Report

By Ellen Domb, editor@triz-journal.com

The Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies, www.aitriz.org, held its annual conference “TRIZCON2006” in Milwaukee, WI USA, April 29-May3, 2006. For the first time, this was a joint conference with the American Society for Quality, which was … Read More

The Use Of Triz Principles In Consumer Product Design

Jack Hipple Innovation-TRIZ Tampa, FL 813-994-9999 jwhinnovator@earthlink.net

The principles of TRIZ have been used extensively in manufacturing equipment and process troubleshooting and are beginning to find application in business, management, intellectual property, and strategic planning. There is a third … Read More

The Search Substance – Field

Sankt-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Department of Control Systems and Informatics Sankt-Petersburg, Russia E-mail: bushuev@inbox.ru

Introduction This is a third paper from series of work [1,2] on mathematical invention problem models. The Author has got several … Read More

The Intuition-Logic Struggle

By Ed Sickafus, Ph.D. http:// www.u-sit.net © 2005, Ntelleck LLC

Working backwards We learn in the USIT textbook the importance of a well-defined problem and how to produce one from a wealth of problem-situation information. This is the topic of … Read More

Why TRIZ And OTSM? What Are TRIZ And OTSM?

Nikolai Khomenko, jlproj@gmail.com Attempts to improve problem solving skills and methods: short historical overview.

One of the very first steps to being human is getting the first solution to a problem and reflecting on it, generalizing the idea, in order … Read More

TRIZ Application In Device & Manufacturing Electrostatic Discharge Control

Teong-San Yeoh Intel Technology Sdn. Bhd. Penang, Malaysia ts.yeoh@intel.com

ABSTRACT Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) is a common failure mechanism found in semiconductor device manufacturing. ESD can be generated from humans, machines or even during the handling of these semiconductor devices. This … Read More

Unleashing The Voice Of The Product And The Voice Of The Process

Darrell Mann Director, Systematic Innovation Ltd, UK Phone/Fax: +44 (1275) 342960 Mobile: +44 (7980) 864028 E-mail: darrell.mann@systematic-innovation.com

Abstract In this paper we propose that, our need to create products and services that match the ‘voice of the customer’ becomes much … Read More