TRIZ for Engineers: Enabling Inventive Problem Solving

TRIZ is a brilliant toolkit for nurturing engineering creativity and innovation. This accessible, colourful and practical guide has been developed from problem-solving workshops run by Oxford Creativity, one of the world's top TRIZ training organizations started by Gadd in 1998. Gadd has successfully introduced TRIZ to many major organisations such as Airbus, Sellafield Sites, Saint-Gobain, DCA, Doosan Babcock, Kraft, Qinetiq, Trelleborg, Rolls Royce and BAE Systems, working on diverse major projects including next generation submarines, chocolate packaging, nuclear clean-up, sustainability and cost reduction. Engineering companies are increasingly recognising and acting upon the need to encourage successful, practical and systematic innovation at every stage of the engineering process including product development and design. TRIZ enables greater clarity of thought and taps into the creativity innate in all of us, transforming random, ineffective brainstorming into targeted, audited, creative sessions focussed on the problem at hand and unlocking the engineers' knowledge and genius to identify all the relevant solutions. For good design engineers and technical directors across all industries, as well as students of engineering, entrepreneurship and innovation, TRIZ for Engineers will help unlock and realise the potential of TRIZ. The individual tools are straightforward, the problem-solving process is systematic and repeatable, and the results will speak for themselves. This highly innovative book: Satisfies the need for concise, clearly presented information together with practical advice on TRIZ and problem solving algorithms Employs explanatory techniques, processes and examples that have been used to train thousands of engineers to use TRIZ successfully Contains real, relevant and recent case studies from major blue chip companies Is illustrated throughout with specially commissioned full-colour cartoons that illustrate the various concepts and techniques and bring the theory to life Turns good engineers into great engineers.

About the Author xiii Acknowledgements xiv Foreword xv Introduction xvi PART ONE: TRIZ Logic and the Tools for Innovation and Clarity of Thought Chapter 1: TRIZ Tools for Creativity and Clever Solutions 3 Chapter 2: TRIZ Knowledge Revolution to Access All the World's Known Solutions 22 Chapter 3: Fundamentals of TRIZ Problem Solving 43 Chapter 4: Thinking in Time and Scale 69 PART TWO: The Contradiction Toolkit Chapter 5: Uncovering and Solving Contradictions 97 PART THREE: Fast Thinking with the TRIZ Ideal Outcome Chapter 6: The Ideal Solves the Problem 177 Chapter 7: Resources: The Fuel of Innovation 196 Chapter 8: Ideal and the Ideality Audit 221 PART FOUR: TRIZ, Invention and Next Generation Systems Chapter 9: System Development and Trends of Evolution 245 Chapter 10: Inventing with TRIZ 284 PART FIVE: TRIZ for System Analysis and Improvement Chapter 11: Function Analysis for System Understanding 311 Chapter 12: Classical TRIZ: Substance-Field Analysis and ARIZ 375 PART SIX: How to Problem Solve with TRIZ: the Problem Solving Maps Chapter 13: TRIZ Problem-solving Maps and Algorithms 421 Case Study: BAE Systems 'SRES' Ducting Design 451 Appendix I: 39 Parameters of the Contradiction Matrix 468 Appendix II: Contradiction Matrix 471 Glossary 473 Index 479