Japan TRIZ Symposium and Newsletter update

Dear TRIZ Colleagues, “TRIZ Home Page in Japan” has been updated on June 6, 2006: Both English and Japanese Pages http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/ The Program of “The Second TRIZ Symposium in Japan, 2006” and its Call for Participation have been announced. ————– … Read More

Workshop On Computer Aided Innovation: Report of the meeting held in Karlsruhe on 11th of May 2006

Executive Summary A consultation workshop was held in Karlsruhe on the 11th of May 2006 on the broad domain of Computer Aided Innovation (CAI). Experts from European member states, candidate states and from outside Europe took part in the … Read More

Letter: Khomenko article in June 2006

LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE TRIZ-JOURNAL: COMMENTS ON “WHY TRIZ AND OTSM? WHAT ARE TRIZ AND OTSM?”

I enjoyed reading Nikolai Khomenko’s article in the June TRIZ-Journal and look forward to the rest of his series of articles. However, … Read More

Letter: TRIZ and Advertising

Editor’s note: Jim Kowalick was the founding co-editor of The TRIZ Journal, and wrote many of the articles in the first 2 years of publication, so he is an old friend of many of our readers. We thought you’d like … Read More

The Energy of Innovation: A Leadership Perspective

Prepared by Anja-Karina Pahl A.K.Pahl@bath.ac.uk Dale S. Deardorff DM. d.s.deardorff@att.net November 2005 Ongoing Discussion Host: Bill Bellows (william.j.bellows@boeing.com) for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne’s Enterprise Thinking Network

Anja-Karina Pahl A.K.Pahl@bath.ac.uk University of Bath, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering – Claverton Down, UK

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Six Sigma Trends: TRIZ Six Sigma for Cost Reduction: Strategic Breakthrough Training Based Projects

Dr. Elena Averboukh is an industry-funded professor at the University of Kassel (Germany) in Quality and Safety Control Systems and works internationally as a Six Sigma and TRIZ Master Instructor and Fellow Master Black Belt for manufacturing, transactional, design, financial … Read More

Children’s corner

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

In this Student’s Corner we’ll return to a book written by my Physics Professor in Kharkov State University, Jacob Geguzin, about properties of a … Read More

Innovative Design for Link-Type Optical Fiber Polisher

*Hsin-Sheng Lee Long-Chang Hsieh and Zhi-Yi Wang Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Formosa University Yunlin 63208, Taiwan E-mail: jennifer@nfu.edu.tw(*Corresponding author)

Abstract The link-type optical fiber polisher is roughly divided into four parts: (1) suspending device; (2) clamping device; (3) … Read More

Three-Dimensional Thinking and Job Problem

Three-Dimensional Thinking and Job Problem Andrei Kossoroukov andreiko@shaw.ca

Some time ago I was listening to a presentation of different challenges in problem solving processes. The presentation was delivered by Mike Hilton, President of Sunaptic Solutions. One of the challenges was … Read More

Book Review: Thoughtivity – A Treasure Chest

Thoughtivity for Kids by Tatiana Sidorchuk and Nikolai Khomenko reviewed by Cal Halliburton and Sue McCarthy Title: Thoughtivity for Kids: Developing Creativity, Imagination, Problem Solving and Language in ages 3-8; Through TRIZ and Other Innovation Methods: A study manual … Read More