Innovation on Demand
New Product Development Using TRIZ

This book describes how TRIZ can help you find better, more innovative solutions to your design problems.

Victor Fey (Author), Eugene Rivin (Author)

9780521826204, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 October 2005

256 pages, 222 b/w illus. 11 tables 23 exercises
24.9 x 17.5 x 2 cm, 0.62 kg

"[This book] explores the improvement of existing technologies and technological forecasting. It is for product engineers who demand more than problem-solving analogies. The authors have produced a textbook that includes rigorous topics such as a substance-field language, a sequence of logical procedures to analyze problems, and procedures to develop compromise-free design solutions." - Mark A. Hart, NPDP

This book describes a revolutionary methodology for enhancing technological innovation called TRIZ. The TRIZ methodology is increasingly being adopted by leading corporations around the world to enhance their competitive position. The authors explain how the TRIZ methodology harnesses creative principles extracted from thousands of successful patented inventions to help you find better, more innovative, solutions to your own design problems. You'll learn how to use TRIZ tools for conceptual development of novel technologies, products and manufacturing processes. In particular, you'll find out how to develop breakthrough, compromise-free design solutions and how to reliably identify next generation products and technologies. Whether you're trying to make a better beer can, find a new way to package microchips or reduce the number of parts in a lawnmower engine, this book can help. Written for practicing engineers, product managers, technology managers and engineering students.

Preface
1. Introduction to TRIZ
2. Resolving system conflicts
3. Basics of the substance-field analysis
4. Algorithm for inventive problem solving (ARIZ)
5. Laws of technological system evolution
6. Guiding technology evolution
A1. Genrikh Altshuller - the creator of TRIZ
A2. System conflict matrix and inventive principles
A3. Standard approaches to solving inventive problems
A4. Using TRIZ in management practice
A5. Glossary
References.

Subject Areas: Educational: Design & technology [YQTD], Educational: Technology [YQT], Business & management [KJ]