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Design a New Systemwith Invention Machine Goldfire Need to create a new product line?

Have a market requirement or an opportunity that you currently do not know how to satisfy?

Designed with engineers, scientists and researchers in mind, Invention Machine Goldfire is innovation software that systematically guides innovation workers through more than a dozen innovation tasks spanninga product’s lifecycle—from identifying a new market to developing a newproduct to improving existing product offerings.

Goldfire brings structure and uniformity to inventive problem-solving, concept discovery, and idea generation and validation and provides a repeatable process for rapidly translating ideas into market-leading products.

Leveraging the Design a New System task within Goldfire, users canquickly deliver:• A robust analysis of the current state of the art relative to the technology and market space under consideration.

• Validation of the rationale for exploring the new technology and market space.

• One or more conceptual designs and, for each design, an understanding of the challenges of executing in the new space.

• A set of potential implementation strategies to execute. • Specific recommendations for a market-entry strategy.

Fusing proven innovation tools and methods with precise access to corporate and external knowledge, Goldfire gives users unprecedented access to the relevant technical knowledge they need in order to moreefficiently and more effectively solve problems, generate solutions andseize market opportunities.

“For one project, we researched patents, usedroot cause analysis, andfunction modeling. Wethought of a completelynew design; a brand newidea which originated withGoldfire’s tools —patents,scientific effects, inventive principles, system modification patterns—and from internal documents as well. The result is that this projectwill be tested in pilot andhopefully patented.”

– Innovation Project Manager, multi-billion dollar environmental services company

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STEPS IN THIS TASK INCLUDE: Exploring the opportunity spaceLeveraging Goldfire, users research across semantically indexed Knowledge Bases of internal and external knowledge to identify existingsolutions that are related to the functions to be performed by the newproduct or process.

Validating the rationale for the opportunityUsing Goldfire’s proven innovation methods and tools, such as Root CauseAnalysis and Value Engineering, users identify the root causes of non-optimal performance in an existing product or process and then identifythe core problems that might need to be resolved.

Generating the conceptual designIn this step, users model, analyze, and improve the design of the new product or process.

Building a functional model of the new product or process.Here, users leverage Goldfire to build a model of their product or processin order to understand the system in terms of its functions. Function models help engineers and scientists to analyze the design of products orprocesses and identify areas for improvement. Users can reconfigure designs by simplifying the functionality of its elements, or by eliminatingunneeded elements from the design.

Global 2000 manufacturers inmore than 25 countries rely onInvention Machine Goldfire forproduct innovation, process improvement and market expansion. For additional information, please visit InventionMachine.com.

The Goldfire interface guides users through more than a dozen every day innovation tasks -including Designing a New System