• Altshuller data-mined 25K Patent Applications

• Similar Contradictions were found across Domains

• Similar Inventive Solutions were found across Domains

• But...how does a Plumber talk with a Heart Surgeon?

  • Watch Grey's Anatomy or House together?

• Big Idea : Generalized Problem: "Your Problem has been solved somewhere else", in a different DOMAIN in a different LANGUAGE

• So can there be a "common" "crossover" language?

  • Altshuller invented one, with Metaphors
  • 48 TRIZ Metaphors for stating the Problem Contradiction
  • 40 TRIZ Metaphors for Inventive Principles

• A Unique Way of looking at Available Resources

• The thing causing the problem is also a resource?

  • Could Titanic have used the iceberg? PDF

• Helps avoid Functional Fixedness

• The Ideal Final Result

  • A "Want my Cake and Have it Too" outlook
  • A uniquely TRIZ no-compromise formulation
  • A solution before the Solution
  • Focusses the Attention to specific regions of the Solution Space ( as we will see)

• State an Ideal Final Result
• A basic principle of TRIZ is that systems evolve towards increased ideality, where ideality is defined as

$$Ideality=Benefits/(Harm+Costs)$$

• Evolution is in the direction of
  • ⬆ Increasing benefits
  • ⬇ Decreasing costs
  • ⬇ Decreasing harm
• IFR allows us to invert the direction of the problem: to come backwards from Solution towards the Situation

• Contradictions exist at multiple levels

  • Administrative. Oh those Russians...

  • Technical (TRIZ Metaphors, as we'll see)

  • Physical An Impossible Sounding Statement which we might discover...

    • Ever heard of Hiranyakashipu?

• State your Problem in "plain English"
• "Metaphorize" your Problem using 48 TRIZ Parameters
  • You now have a TRIZ Contradiction
  • Maybe more than one way!!

• Look up TRIZ Generalized Solutions for your Contradiction
  • You have say 4 TRIZ Inventive Principles
  • These are also metaphors!

• "Un-metaphorize" them back into your problem

• A meat plant owner in South America flies product to the United States.
• Refrigeration is required during flight to keep the meat frozen.
• Competition increased, Need to reduce delivery cost.
• It became obvious that he must increase the amount of product per air shipment.
• Refrigeration system...
• CONTRADICTION: How to increase shipment AND keep it frozen?

He did exactly that.

• An oil well in Saudi Arabia exploded and caught fire.
• Initial efforts to extinguish it failed,
• Famed firefighter Red Adair was called in.

• There was enough foam available at the site to do the job.
• The small hoses that were available could not shoot the foam quickly enough to do any good.

• CONTRADICTION: How to use a Small Hose to spray Big Foam?

• Use your CULTURAL CAPITAL and your DOMAINs to write a PROBLEM in simple English
• Ask: 5W+H
  • What does the problem seem to be?
  • Who has the problem?
  • When does the problem occur? All the time? Under certain circumstances?
  • Where does the problem occur?
  • Why does the problem occur?("Ask why 5 times" -- W. Edwards Deming)
    • How does the problem occur?

To refine our Problem, what Resources do we have?

• One Good way to do this is using the Ishikawa Diagram
• Man, Material, Method, Management, Machinery (Ishikawa)
  • This diagram is used primarily to assign CAUSES
  • But it conveniently lists all the Resources.
  • What things create the compromise/tradeoff?

• From the Ishikawa Diagram
  • What is One Parameter or Knob for each of the Causes that you have listed therein?
• Let us make a list for each Knob/Object:
  • What is the Knob meant to do? What is its main Purpose?
  • What are the other Accompanying Objects that it works with?

Why did the bear cross the Trans-Canada Highway?

We may never know, but thanks to the Banff Wildlife Crossings Project, there’s a good chance it made it to the other side.

• Knobs from the Ishikawa Diagram (short list):

  • Speed(L/S); Size of Animal(L/S); Number of Animals(L/S); Time of Migration(D/N);

• Output: Road Kill / Affects Animal Migration / Human Costs / Fast Journeys

• AC: We want to drive at high speed, but not kill migrating wild animals (or endanger our vehicles).

• Technical Contradictions: From the 49 TRIZ parameters:
  • TC1: Increase Speed(9) and not worsen Duration of Action by Moving Object(15)
  • TC2: Improve Volume of Moving Object(7) and not worsen Loss of Time(25)
  • TC3: Improve Object affected by external harmful factors(30) and not worsen Duration of Action by Stationary Object(16)[see footnote] Animals are stationary compared to the cars!!

• Knobs (short list):
  • Travel Time(L/S); Purchase Time(L/S); Noise(Loud/Soft); Bargaining Talk(Long/Short)
• Output: Stress / Boredom / Waste of Time / Mom is Happy / Veggies
• AC: I want to chill, but Mom wants me to take her veggie shopping. I have to put up with waste of time and possibly boredom.

• IFR: "I should go AND not go to the market at the same time"

Inventive Principles:

• TC1: 10(Prior Action), 37(Thermal Expansion), 14(Spheroidality).....hmm, not very inspiring, unless 37 means get angry with Mom !! Never!!
• TC2: 35(Parameter Change), 18(Mechanical Vibration)!!, 34(Rejecting and Regenerating Parts).

• AC: When diving, the water may hurt the diver if they do not land properly.
• Knobs: Water(Deep/Shallow); Dive(High/Low); Weight of Diver(H/L); Posture?
• IFR: For high water diving, water must be “hard” to support the diver and “soft” so as not to injure the diver.
• TC: Try!!
• PC: The physical contradiction: The water must be hard and soft at the same time.

• AC:
  • Plastics are polluting the oceans
  • They are impossible to retrieve from there;
  • 80% of all ocean plastics come from ~1600 rivers!

• Knobs: Rivers? Water? Flow? Humans? Plastic waste itself? Water craft(boats/ships..)

• AC: Plastics are polluting the oceans, they are impossible to retrieve from there; 80% of all ocean plastics come from ~1600 rivers!

• Drivers "need" to protest against their Employers

• Strikes hurt commuters, who are forced to empathize (Bah! Design Thinking!!)

• Strikes do not directly "hurt the management"..which is the intent!

• When drivers return, they are apologetic...maybe.

TC: Improve Force(10) ( i.e.of the Strike) and not worsen Object generated Harmful Effects(31) ( i.e. on themselves nor on commuters) IFR: Drivers must convey their anger only to employers who are far away.

Solution:

• Run buses properly on time! Use Fuel and Time!

• But FREE !! The Bus Ticket Transaction is the other way around! So Conductors pay commuters..by not charging!! Stop ISSUING TICKETS !!

• Local Quality, Phase Change, The Other Way Around, and Interediary...all in one

http://www.darrellmann.com/mini-case-study-strike/

Maurice Leloir (1851-1940)