Introduction to Creative Design Thinkingwith Modern TRIZ Modeling

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ABC-TRIZ

Michael A. Orloff

ABC-TRIZIntroduction to Creative Design Thinkingwith Modern TRIZ Modeling

With 11 learning modules and

3-in-1:

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Book I: How to Learn to InventBook II: How to Become a GeniusBook III: Primary Instruments (Summary)

approximately 300 examples

Michael A. OrloffAcademy of Instrumental Modern TRIZ(AiMTRIZ)BerlinGermany

ISBN 978-3-319-29435-3 ISBN 978-3-319-29436-0 (eBook)DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-29436-0

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016933241

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For my son Nikolai – with love and respect for his

creative talent and his superior teaching skills,

and for responsiveness and patience he is instilling

not only in his students, but also in me

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This book is being published in a remarkable year.

It is the 60th anniversary of the first TRIZ article (1956) and the 55th anniversary of the first TRIZ-book (1961) by Genrikh Altshuller, founder of TRIZ.

The origins of TRIZ and ARIZ arose from this first article and book!

This year is also the 90th anniversary of the birth of Genrikh Altshuller and his classmate and brother-in-arms, Raphael Shapiro, co-author of the first article.

The great is seen from a distance! Really, the concept and ideas of TRIZ—Theory of Invention of Genrikh Altshuller—are the source of an absolutely peculiar way of creative design thinking, systematic creative knowledge, and skills for the further development of civilization. TRIZ finds more and more users and followers!

Modern TRIZ carefully maintains historical continuity with the fundamental ideas of TRIZ initiators, facilitates understanding, and develops the effective application of these ideas.

Dear readers will see this succession in dozens of methodological parallels and applied examples in this book, ABC-TRIZ, and will read about Altshuller and Shapiro as well as other great persons.

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Zhao YANG (China), MSc:

I am deeply convinced that Modern TRIZ should be intensively disseminated in China.

Adehi GUEHIKA (Cote d`Ivoire, now in Canada):

I think that e-education in Modern TRIZ could become my second or maybe first occupation.

Oktay TABAK (Turkey):

It is very interesting to model with MTRIZ any artifact and open the creative driver of its design.

Khairul KAMARUDIN (Malaysia), PhD, MSc:

Great MTRIZ e-courses! Interesting applications for green technologies are possible.

Eduardo ROCHA (Mexico):

This is invaluable MTRIZ-knowledge that I would like to bring not only in my engineering specialty, but also in every university and even in every school.

Camila MARTINEZ, Business Intelligence Analist (Brazil):

I would like to disseminate MTRIZ in Brazil. This is important for our companies and universities.

Prerak CONTRACTOR (India):

Modern TRIZ and e-courses on MTRIZ are absolutely irreplaceable for both engineers and managers!

Sugeng WAHYUDI, MSc (Indonesia, now in Singapore):

It is possible with MTRIZ to model historical development of systems as I realized it my Master thesis!

Khaled SHOAIB (Egypt):

Modern TRIZ is absolutely careful study for both initial training and applied design thinking!

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El Gouna Center of Technical University Berlin,

Egypt, January 20th, 2016

Michael A. Orloff is a founder of the Academy of Instrumental Modern TRIZ (AIMTRIZ, Berlin, 2000), author of MTRIZ educational modeling with techniques "Extracting", "Reinventing" and "Meta-Algorithm of Invention T-R-I-Z".

The Academy of Instrumental Modern TRIZ has the partners in 18 countries and continues to develop educational Modern TRIZ society around the world.

His training and consulting are well known at many companies including SIEMENS (for postautomation and electrotransportation directions, Berlin, Germany), SAMSUNG Advanced Institute of Technology (for system development, Suwon, S. Korea), universities in China (till 1000 trainees in auditorium at 2-day trainings), Kazakhstan, Korea, Russia, etc. Till now about 500 innovative and inventive solutions (many of them are patented by customers) were made with the author’s consulting and problem solving (on the order of customer or together with Think Tank Teams) at more than 120 enterprises.

He lectures MTRIZ at TU Berlin in partnership with Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (ILR) for European programs TEMPUS and ERASMUS MUNDUS and others, for international Master of Science programs "Global Production Engineering" and "Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management", and "Energy Engineering" (with attendees from faculties "Urban Engineering" and "Water Engineering") at Campus El Gouna, Egypt, as well as a part of some executive education programs at Center for Leadership Development Research (CLDR) of ESMT European School of Management and Technology (Berlin).

From 2015 he is a staff professor for MTRIZ e-learning at Chair of pedagogy and methodology of natural science education of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute). This textbook also includes the examples of pilot projects for teachers and students of high schools and universities in co-operation with MEPhI and UNESCO Institute of Informational Technologies in Education (IITE).

This book is addressed, first and foremost, to teachers and students of technical universities, but certainly it can be successfully used by teachers and students of all professions without limitation, as well as by high school students and teachers.

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About the Title of the Book The ABC series of books has always been respected.

They open doorways to the mysteries of the world—and they do that by teaching people to read and thereby partake of the wisdom and experience and the thoughts and feelings of other people. They help people cultivate understanding and empathy.

May this book become your creativity primer. May it help you discover modern TRIZ, which essentially is epitome of modern invention theory.

About the Title of the EASyTRIZTM Training System

The title EASyTRIZTM has two connotations:

1) it contains a reference to the adjective easy, and

2) it is based on a radiolocation abbreviation EASy, which stands for Early Acquisition System (target acquisition and locking-in as early as possible to develop an efficient reaction). With respect to training objectives, it is interpreted as Easy Acquisition System for TRIZ: To obtain the right learning and skills as early as possible for efficient problem solving.

Standardized Meta-Algorithm of Invention

Standardized Presentation and Accumulation of Expertise

Standardized Mass-scale Training

Standardized Individual and Collective Application

Modern TRIZ

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"TRIZ" is an acronym from the Russian title for the book,

"Theory of Inventive Problem Solving": Теория Решения Изобретательских Задач (ТРИЗ) ‒ Teoriya Resheniya Izobretatel‘skih Zadach (TRIZ)

It behooves me to emphasize from the outset our inventive problem-solving methodology is not a recipe for making inventions. The methodology does not replace, or serve as a substitute for, technical knowledge. It can only help use that knowledge with maximum efficiency. Instead of randomly searching for answers with huge expenditure of energy and time, it offers a rational system.

…Imagine a boxing match. The boxers need both "brawn and brain": strong muscles are important, but so are special fighting skills. The same is true for the "combat" between the inventor and a technical problem. Knowledge, experience, abilities – all these are the "brawn" of the inventor, while the methodology teaches him not to waste his strength on inefficient fist-swinging.

Naturally, mastery of the methodology does not guarantee that the inventor will exceed Popov or Edison. Well, by the same token mastery of a college physics course does not guarantee that the student will, with time, exceed Newton or Einstein.

To have great creative talent is not enough to create great inventions. Historical conditions have to be conducive, and many other things must occur at the same time to make that happen.

The methodology does not negate the role that can be played by abilities. It assumes that, to varying degrees, each human being has certain talents.

The methodology should be used primarily to resolve ordinary inventive problems – those that any inventor encounters on a daily basis.

The methodology helps develop [the] talents and put them to good use. 1

Genrikh Altshuller

1 G. S. Altshuller How to Learn to Invent. – Tambov: Tambov Book Publishers, 1961 (in Russian)

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This course is an invitation to boost your power to discern:

the beautiful in the practical, the amazing in the mundane, and

the simple in the complex.

The emblem of our Modern TRIZ Academy bears a biblical maxim2:

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

This course is invitation to change yourself, to become more inventive and powerful, so that you learn to overcome obstacles,

to transform the "impossible" into the possible, and simply to rejoice

in creating beautiful ideas and useful solutions.

2 Romans 12:2; the original Latin text is: Transformamini renovatione mentis. Source: Nova Vulgata,

Apostoli ad Romanos Epistula Sancti Pauli, 12 (2). The fact that we quote the Bible does not mean that we are biased toward any particular religion, nor are we trying to proselytize the reader. It simply means that we are drawing wisdom from a specific historical literary source.

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Table of Contents

Book I How to learn to invent 1

ABC-TRIZ: Discover the Simple in the Complex 3

On the effectiveness of our skills 5

1 Miracle of Invention 7

1.1 Five "easy" tasks to warm up 1.2 Secret of the Miracle 1.3 Everyone Is an Inventor! 1.4 Workshop for Chapter 1

7 12 15 18

2 Toward the Modern TRIZ 19

2.1 TRIZ 2.2 A-Studio of Modern TRIZ 2.3 MTRIZ-herbie! 2.4 Workshop for Chapter 2

19 22 27 30

3 TRIZ Algorithms of Invention 31

3.1 Before TRIZ: Meta-Algorithm of Brainstorming 3.2 Meta-Algorithm of Invention ARIZ-1956 3.3 Meta-Algorithm of Invention T-R-I-Z (MAI T-R-I-Z 1995) 3.4 Workshop for Chapter 3

31 33 35 40

4 Modeling the Problem 41

4.1 Contradictions 4.2 Standard Contradiction (SC) 4.3 Radical Contradiction (RC) 4.4 Contradiction as an Attribute of Development 4.5 Workshop for Chapter 4

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5 Extracting 59

5.1 Efficient Models in Each Artifact 5.2 Extracting as Key Teaching and Training Method in MTRIZ5.3 Primary and Advanced Extracting 5.4 Workshop for Chapter 5

59 61 63 67

6 Inventing 71

6.1 Algorithm START T-R-I-Z™ 6.2 Solving the Standard Contradiction with Method BICO 6.3 Solving the Radical Contradiction with Method RICO 6.4 Workshop for Chapter 6

71 74 81 85

7 Reinventing 87

7.1 Reinventing as Fundamental Teaching and Training Method7.2 Key Practical Procedures of Reinventing 7.3 Science and Art of Reinventing 7.4 Workshop for Chapter 7

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8 Answers to Tests 117

Chapters 1 – 3 Chapter 4. Modeling the problem Chapter 5. Extracting Chapter 6. Inventing

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Book II How to become a genius 133

To Seek and Not to Yield 135

TRIZonal Concept 138

9 Operative Zone 141

9.1 Reinventing of Operative Zone (OZ) 9.1.1 Definition of OZ 9.1.2 Reinventing with MAI T-R-I-Z

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9.2 Transformation of OZ 9.2.1 Actors of OZ 9.2.2 Resources of OZ 9.2.3 Ideal Target Modeling 9.3 OZ makes this itself 9.3.1 Altshuller's Experiment-1: Girl’s Brilliant Solution! 9.3.2 Altshuller's Experiment-2: Boy’s Brilliant Solution! 9.3.3 Moscow Kremlin Stars: Turn Harm into Good! 9.3.4 Memories of the Future: This is da Vinci! 9.3.5 Does Sir Norman Foster like da Vinci also? 9.3.6 Water from Air: The Magic Particles in OZ.

9.4 Workshop for Chapter 9

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10 Directed Development of Systems 217

10.1 System Development and Evolution 10.1.1 TRIZ Laws 10.1.2 String "Rail Sky Way" 10.2 Transfer of Experience 10.2.1 We learn by example: Exemplis Discimus 10.2.2 Professional Specialization 10.2.3 The Nature invents! 10.3 Advanced Reinventing Cases 10.3.1 Originated from SIEMENS 10.3.2 Per Aspera Ad Astra! 10.3.3 Per Aspera Ad Orbis: Into Space… on a Wheel! 10.3.4 Let’s do it!

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11 The Origins of Creative Personality 323

11.1 Josef von Fraunhofer 11.2 Werner von Siemens 11.3 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky 11.4 Jacob Perelman 11.5 Genrikh Altshuller 11.6 Steve Jobs 11.7 Richard Branson 11.8 Anatoly Yunitskiy 11.9 It’s Your Choice!

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Book III Primary instruments (Summary) 365

S1 TRIZ 367

S2 Invention is an in-depth look 368

S3 Mentality levels of idea generating 369

S4 Directed problem-solving with TRIZ 370

S5 System tendency to ideality 371

S6 Limitation of main system characteristic 372

S7 Breakthrough of main system characteristic 373

S8 Levels of invention 374

S9 Invention complexity 375

S10 Meta-Algorithm of Invention T-R-I-Z (MAI T-R-I-Z 1995) 376

S11 Modern TRIZ: Standardization of Training, Practice, and Problem Solving on the Basis of MAI T-R-I-Z 377

S12 Reinventing on the base of MAI T-R-I-Z 378

S13 Inventing on the base of MAI T-R-I-Z 379

S14 Standard Contradiction 380

S15 Radical Contradiction 381

S16 START: Simplest TRIZ-Algorithm of Resourceful Thinking S16.1 START: integrated scheme S16.2 START-pass through Standard Contradiction S16.3 START-pass through Radical Contradiction

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S17 Operative zone 385

S18 Resources 386

S19 Resolving of Standard Contradiction on the method BICO (Binary In Cluster Out)

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S20. Example "Swimmer" (reinventing) 388

S21 A-matrix S21.1 List of 39 Plus and Minus factors S21.2 Table of A-matrix

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S22 As-catalogue S22.1 List of 40 navigators (specialized transformations) S22.2 Table of As-catalogue (text form) S22.3 As-catalogue (with pictures)

394 394 395 399

S23 Resolving of Radical Contradiction on the method RICO (Radical In Cluster Out) 409

S24 Example "Diver" (reinventing) S24.1 Solution-pass through Standard Contradiction S24.2 Solution-pass through Radical Contradiction

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S25 Afs-catalogue 414

S26 Af-catalogue for four fundamental models with examples 415

S27 Simple form for Extracting-1 418

S28 Examples of form of Extracting-1 419

S29 "START-form" for reinventing 420

S30 Example "Ice for a Drink" at "START-form" 421

S31 Brief Junior-form for Extracting and Reinventing 422

S32 Example "Fischer’ Dowel" at brief Junior-form 423

S33 "Junior-form" for reinventing (two pages) 424

S34 Example "Leonardo da Vinci's Bridge" at "Junior-form" 426

S35 As-catalogue (with reinventing) 428

S36 Af-catalogue for four fundamental models with reinventing 508

S37 Terms and abbreviations 516

S38 Main Web sites for AIMTRIZ 516