Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Improve your innovative thinking

TRIZ principles
The 40 TRIZ principles are known solutions to solve contradictions.
Using these known solutions in new problems can bring innovative solutions!

1. Segmentation
Segmentation means to separate problem into smaller parts.
increase the degree of fragmentation until you reach to an object easy to resolve.

2. Extraction

Extraction means to take out or separate something, such as removing a painful tooth or singling out the critical parts of a system.

Sometimes simply placing a bad part of the system in a different place lessens the bad effect or removes it completely.

Seek the value of different parts or aspects. Low-value items may be eliminated or high-value items may be extracted and used elsewhere in different circumstances.

3. Local Quality

Do not assume that the current placing or usage of parts cannot be changed--

the reasons may be buried in history or may be more for manufacturing convenience than for the value they give in operation.

Local Quality means to single out specific parts and then to change them or place them in an environment such that they are optimally useful.

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