Basic TRIZ Day One
Overview of the TRIZ Tools + learn to use the Solution Map
- Summary of the TRIZ Tools and TRIZ Problem Solving Process
- Creativity Tools for generating ideas & effective brainstorming
- Thinking in Time and Scale
- The Prism of TRIZ
- Problems & Solution Maps
The first morning covers a review of all the TRIZ tools and the TRIZ process for problem solving. A brief summary and explanation is given on how to use traditional creativity tools to stimulate idea generation, followed by the more powerful TRIZ approaches to maximising concept generation and innovative solutions to any problem.
TRIZ - Beyond Brainstorming - Illustration of how TRIZ is the only Problem Solving Process (unlike others which show how to find and understand problems and then after brainstorming how to rank solutions). How TRIZ both helps you to find knowledge beyond your own experience and how TRIZ helps you get the most out of your brains, experience and education.
The workshop features several exercises, including Problem and Solution maps – which are part of the unique and powerful TRIZ tool Thinking in Time and Scale.
TRIZ Trends - Using the Past to Predict the Future
- 8 Trends of Evolution
- Trend 1 – Ideality - understanding what you want
- Trend 2 - S-Curves and new products
- Using all the Trends to predict new products
- Protecting and creating intellectual property
- Solution Maps for Strengthening Patents
Use the TRIZ Trends to predict your next generation product or system
This unique TRIZ approach shows how to predict future technologies, new products and improvement of current systems using the 8 TRIZ Trends of Evolution. Defining what you want - Ideality, Understanding where you are - using S-Curves – seeing how you might get there using simple patterns of technical trends.
Trends of Evolution
The 8 Trends (each with their own subsets - lines of evolution) are powerful problem solving triggers. The Trends also have great strategic power when used in planning and research. For many users, learning the Trends gives more problem solving directions than other tools.
Examples are given on how to match the Trends to developing products in the context of time and space, and then how to use them to generate many solutions to strengthen and protect patents. This involves using the Solution Maps and applying them, when appropriate, to your own company’s problems.
Basic TRIZ Day Two
How to use the 40 Principles for solving Contradictions
- 40 TRIZ Principles – 40 Ways to Solve Any Problem
- Understanding Technical Contradictions
- Contradiction Matrix and the 39 Parameters to define contradictions
- Uncovering and Solving Technical Contradictions and Physical Contradictions
- Rules for Separation
- Solving Engineering Problems using TRIZ Contradiction Tools
In this workshop you learn the most easily accessible and perhaps most powerful thinking and innovation tools for problem understanding - the TRIZ tools for uncovering and solving contradictions.
TRIZ offers ways of solving the most fundamental engineering problems. This workshop introduces you to the 40 ways of solving contradictions. The distillation of knowledge in the 40 Principles guides you to powerful solution triggers to generate new ideas. This workshop includes exercises on the 40 Principles and the Contradiction Matrix together with Thinking in Time and Space.
Problem solving often involves understanding and resolving conflicting requirements - improvement in one part means something else getting worse; in TRIZ this is called a technical contradiction, such as strength versus weight. Technical contradictions are solved using the Contradiction Matrix and the 40 Principles.
When opposite benefits are required but often at different times or places, this is called a Physical Contradiction which can be solved with the TRIZ Rules for Separation and the 40 Principles.
This workshop includes three major exercises which build on the knowledge learned during the previous two days. The final exercise includes Thinking in Time and Space, Uncovering Contradictions, using the Contradiction Matrix to solve Technical Contradictions; and also using the Separation rules to solve Physical Contradictions.
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