Development of a TRIZ Tool

Ivan Aparicio Expanding Design Creativity: Accessing the world wide web of inspiration through TRIZ

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The theory of inventive problem solving Developed by Genrich Altshuller beginning in 1946. Altshuller and his team put 1500 manhours into analysing over 2 million patents.

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Principal Axiom:
o The evolution of all technical systems is governed by objective laws. Also: o There are only about 1500 basic types of problem, and they can be solved through the combination of 40 inventive principles.

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TRIZ doesnt close the circle.
The problem solving process is heavily reliant on the expertise of the thinker (especially for very technical problems).

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Remembering the Axiom: o There are only about 1500 basic types of problem, and they can be solved through the combination of 40 inventive principles. Corollary: o Somebody someplace has already solved this problem (or one very similar to it). o If somebody has done it, it is probably somewhere on the internet.

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A gateway into a boundless source of information. Engineered to retrieve information according to specifications of the user.

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Processed Inverted Query Search & File
Query Processor

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Match

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Patents Effects Journals on Emerging developments Wiki
Ultimately: Formation of specialised databases intended for the purpose

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Design Brief of a TRIZ based Problem Solving Search Engine. Investigation into the integration of TRIZ tools into an Information Retrieval system

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Yanhong Liang, R.T.J.M., 2008. Patent Analysis with Text Mining for TRIZ. Hebei: IEEE Institute of Design for Innovation, Hebei University of Technology. Altshuller, G., 1996. And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared. 1st ed. Translated by L. Shulyak. Worchester, Massachusets, U.S.A.: Technical Innovation Center. Fox, M.L., 2008. The Lenses of TRIZ. In Da Vinci and the 40 answers. Wizard Academy Press. Katie Barry, E.D.M.S.S., n.d. TRIZ - What is TRIZ? The TRIZ Journal. Liddy, E., 2002. How a Search Engine Works. In A.P. Mintz, ed. Web of Deception. Medford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Cyber Age Books. pp.197-207. Mann, D., 2003. TRIZ as a local and global knowledge framework. Systematic Innovation, April. pp.1-8.