1. What TRIZ Iz By Dave Gevers Experience:
Heavy Haul Trailers & Transporters (60 to 1,200 tons) [VP Engr.]
Turbine Engines (GE for F-14, B1B, F18, F15) [Lead Designer]
High Speed Production Equipment [Dept. Head]
Plastic Consumer Products [Internal Consultant – Tech. & TRIZ]
TRIZ Training:
“Zinovy Royzen Consulting” (1 week)
“Gen3 Partners” (8 weeks – International level 3 certified)
Patents:
Heavy Haul – 2
Aircraft Wing Design – 7
Plastic Molding Equipment & Consumer Products – 6 pending

2. Closely Related Design Innovation & Problem Solving Needs
New Design Innovation
Trends in Design, Market Analysis
Design Improvement/optimization
Problem Solving
Cause-Effect Chain Analysis
Common sets of tools can be used for both types of problems

3. Common Techniques for Innovation and Problem Solving
Goldfire – “Invention Machine” sotftware

4. Many Modules – Some Overlap
TRIZ Flow Chart
Many Modules – Some Overlap
Design Innovation
40 Inventive Principles
Evolutionary Trends
Function Analysis
Trimming
Cause-Effect Chains Analysis
Benchmarking
Key Problem
Flow Analysis
Feature Transfer
Problem Solving
Conceptual Directions
Function Oriented Search
76 Standard Solution Application
Scientific Database Application
ARIZ Application
Clone Application
Cause-Effect Chains
40 Inventive Principle Application
Concept Substantiation
Secondary Problem
Idea Substantiation
Supereffect Analysis
Concept Evaluation

5. TRIZ Includes Many Techniques
Underlying Method Common to Most Techniques
Define the Problem (and boundaries)
Convert the new matrix or symbols back to Practical Problem Solution
Word Description
Symbolic
Convert to a Format (matrix or symbolic diagram) that is:
Complete (includes ideal situation)
Abstract (removed from problem language)
Manipulate the new format to develop a complete the solution “matrix”
TRIZ Table of Contents

6. Brief History of TRIZ Genrikh Altshuller – 1926 - Uzbekistan (USSR)
First patent in 10th grade
At age 20 he started studying patents and categorized common solutions
Two key discoveries:
Breakthrough invention is the result of overcoming conflicts.
Technical systems evolve toward increasing ideality.
Proposed to Stalin that he use TRIZ to help the country, which sent him and his colleagues to 25 years in coal mine labor camp above the Arctic Circle.
In prison, he studied and advance the TRIZ concepts.
After 7 years, Stalin died, Altshuller and comrades were released and wrote TRIZ articles.
Altshuller also wrote several popular science fiction novels using TRIZ to help invent futuristic devices.
In 1989 he became president of the International TRIZ Association.
Died in 1998 after writing 20 books and 400 papers.
“40 Inventive Principles”
“Conflict Resolution”
“Technology Trends”

7. 40 Inventive Principles Print them out & keep them handy.
We use some naturally.
Contradiction Matrix – not necessary (suggests principle based on type of conflict)

8. Algorithm of Using 76 Standard Inventive Solutions for Inventive Problem Solving (AIST)
Construct the model of the problem according to ARIZ
group 4.1
Measuring
Transform the model of the problem into a Su-Field No
Can measuring be substituted for detecting?
Harmful interactions
Measuring or modification? No
Yes
1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, group 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 No
Is Su-Field complete?
Can substances and fields be introduced?
Yes
Can substances and fields be introduced?
Can substances and fields be introduced?
Any harmful interactions?
double, chain Su-Field
Is the introduction of a magnetic field possible?
group 2.1
Is the formation of complex Su-Fields admissible?
2.4.1, 4.4.1
Can ferromag. subst. and mag. fields be introduced INSTEAD of those which are avail. in the Su-Field?
Yes No
Check for the presence of ferromagnetic substances in the Su-Field
M.A,T,Ch.E.M.
2.2.1
Is the substitution of the field admissible? No
, 2.4.7, 2.4.8, 4.4.2
2.4.5, 4.4.3 No
Can additives be introduced to the external environment?
Yes
Check if the Fe-Field system is dynamic
Is the system dynamic?
Yes No
2.2.5, 2.2.6, 4.3.1, group 5.3, 5.4
Yes
2.4.9
2.4.6, 4.4.4
Can ferromag. additives be introduced to the external environment?
Check if the structures of the Fe-Field components are coordinated
Are the Su-Field components coordinate?
Yes No
2.4.10, 4.4.5, group 5.3, 5.4
Yes
, 4.3.2, 4.3.3
Can electric fields and electric currents be used?
Check if the dynamics of the Fe-Field components are coordinated
Are the dynamics of the Su-Field components coordinated?
2.4.11,
Yes No
Yes
Apply 3rd Class Standards to solve the problem
Note: The numbers outside of the blue boxes indicate the Standard Inventive Solutions that are used.

9. “Trimming” Exercise: Eliminate a Harmful / Undesirable Item

10. Example A-1
Standard Closure
Thread-in-Wall

11. Cause-Effect Chain Analysis
QUESTIONS AT EACH STEP:
incorrect, other types?
excessive?
inadequate, missing?
uneven, discontinuous, unsteady?
too fast, high rate of increase, new, soon?
too slow, residual effect, old, late?
other?
Fields = MATChEM:
Mechanical incl.fluid (force, press., torque, accel.,etc.)
Acoustic
Thermal (Temp., temp. gradient)
Chemical
Electrical
Magnetic
other?

12. Class/Sub Class search
Patent Search Notes
USPTO (advanced search) + Google Patents
Index of classification codes
Example Seals
Independent vs. dependent claims
File History
Work Instruction
Number of results
All Relevant Patents
Class/Sub Class search
Key Word search
Time

13. Patent Searching Techniques
USPTO (advanced search) +
Key Words
Classification
Latest Refs.

14. “Transition Function” in Math – derivative or integral
S-Curve Analysis
“Transition Function” in Math – derivative or integral
The S-Curve is summation (integral) of a growth function (MPV, population, indicator).
MPV or Accumulation
Time
The driving function is growth rate (population growth rate, ideas/time, patents/yr, models/yr, etc…)
Rate of Growth
Time

15. Morphing Wing Example of “Matrix Method”
Underlying Method Common to Most Techniques
Define the Problem (and boundaries)
Convert the new matrix or symbols back to Problem Language
Word Description
Symbolic
Convert to a Format matrix or symbols that is:
Complete (includes ideal situation)
Abstract (removed from problem language)
Manipulate the new format to complete the solution “matrix”

16. Conflict Resolution Use the 40 Inventive Principles
Separate Contradictory Demands
Separation in Space - move conflicts apart
Separation in Time - when does it need to be each way
Separation in Relation - which specific aspect is in contradiction
Separation in System Level - consider the whole system
Satisfy Contradictory Demands - change some parameter(s)
Bypass Contradictory Demands - make the contradiction irrelevant

17. Summary
TRIZ is a set/collection of tools from Altshuller ‘s patent studies:
40 Inventive Principles , 76 Standard Solutions, Algorithm
Trends in Evolution of Technology
Conflict Resolution
Graphical/Symbolic Method of Modeling-Manipulating-Discovering
Cause-Effect Chain Analysis
Customer Needs Analysis – added late in TRIZ development