Objective

Registration:

This intensive three-day workshop will impart the fundamentals of TRIZ – the most powerful methodology for the development of novel technologi-cal solutions. You will learn TRIZ methods and receive hands-on experience in solving various real-life complex product and process development problems gleaned from various fields of modern engineering. In today’s rapidly changing markets, TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) can provide your company with the needed competitive edge by helping you to:

• Expeditiously and efficiently resolve costly design and production problems
  
• Systematically generate concepts of best prod-uct innovations that match with your clients’ needs
  
• Dramatically reduce your development cycles and cut lead times
  
• Enable you to be one step ahead of the competition
  

Participants are encouraged to bring their unsolved problems to class.

Approach

The author of TRIZ, Genrikh Altshuller, analyzed thousands of successful innovations and discovered that while the evolution of technology is apparently comprised of haphazard steps, in the long run it follows certain repeatable patterns. These patterns can be applied to the systematic development of technological systems – both to solving product design and production problems, and to the development of next-generation technologies and products. Knowledge of these patterns allows the TRIZ prac-titioner to anticipate the most likely next steps in the evolution of any technological system. It also helps design better systems faster, without wasting time and valuable resources in a random search for solutions. As a methodology for the effective development of new technological systems, TRIZ has two major sets of methods:

• A set of methods for the conceptual development of system designs.
  
• A set of methods for the identification and de-velopment of next-generation technologies.

You will learn how to use TRIZ to:

• Correctly define complex problems
  
• Develop conceptual breakthrough solutions
  
• Replace trade-offs with innovative solutions satisfying all conflicting requirements
  
• Maximize utilization of available resources
  
• Objectively determine the most promising direc-tions in the evolution of your product or process
  
• Quickly develop concepts of next-generation products and processes
  
• Solve real-life complex problems under the guidance of the TRIZ master.

You will acquire new knowledge and skills both through the input of concepts and through their application to real-life problems.

Trainer

Victor Fey, TRIZ Master, Adjunct Professor at Wayne State University and Principal at The TRIZ Group in De-troit, USA. A close associate of Altshuller, he has over 26 years’ experience in TRIZ research, training and applica-tion. He has consulted for many Fortunes 500 companies and academia. He is a co-founder of the Altshuller Insti-tute for TRIZ Studies. His latest book, Innovation on Demand: New Product Development Using TRIZ, was published by Cam¬bridge University Press in 2005.

Workshop Agenda TRIZ-A

Day One

• Conventional approach to conceptual design – the trial-and-error method. Psychological inertia.
  
• TRIZ – a systematic, logical approach to solving complex product and technology development challenges.
  
• Ideal technological system. Ideal solution.
  
• System conflicts. Methods for resolving system conflicts.
  
• Physical contradictions. Methods for resolving physical contradictions.
  
• ARIZ – Algorithm for Inventive Problem Solving – the primary analytical and solution generation tool of TRIZ.
  

Day Two

• Minimal technological system. The concept of a sufield. Substance-field analysis.
  
• Typical substance-field (sufield) transformations. TRIZ Standards – a powerful set of tools for the most effective transformations of technological systems.
  
• Standards on enhancing useful actions.
  
• Standards on elimination of harmful actions.
  
• Standards on the development of detection and measurement systems.
  
• Standards on introducing substances into sys-tems. Standards on introducing fields into sys-tems.
  
• Combined application of ARIZ and the Standards.
  
• TRIZ analysis of the problems brought by the participants.
  

Day Three

• S-curve of technological systems evolution.
  
• Levels of invention. Altshuller`s technology as-sessment curves.
  
• Laws of Technological System Evolution.
  
• Lines of Technological System Evolution.
  
• TechNav process for guided technology evolution.
  
• Using TRIZ to enhance corporate intellectual property portfolios and to circumvent competi-tors’ blocking patents.
  
• TRIZ analysis of the problems brought by the participants.

General Information

General:
You will find information on dates, prices and locations of all InterQuality events under the following link: Preise & Termine.

Language:
This TRIZ Training is conducted in English

Hotel:
We will be glad to reserve for you the hotel of your choice.

Participants:
Anyone involved with new product or technology development: Engineering and executives, project managers, designers, researches, engineering consultants, patent lawyers, knowledge managers.

TEXTBOOK
a) Innovation on Demand: New Product Devel-opment Using TRIZ, Cambridge University Press, 2005. Victor Fey, Eugene Rivin. Will be supplied with registration.
b) Class handouts