Wednesday, October 1, 2008

USIT Operators for Solution Generation in TRIZ: Clearer Guide to Solution Paths

Author: Toru Nakagawa
Abstract:
The biggest reason for slow penetration of TRIZ into industries in Western countries is that very rich contents of TRIZ knowledge bases and individual methods of problem solving have been tried to teach without clear overall procedure/structure for problem solving. It has been traditional that principal solution generation methods in TRIZ, including Inventive Principles, Inventive Standards, and Trends of Evolution, are applied separately on the basis of their own problem analysis methods.

Present paper demonstrates, on the other hand, that Unified Structured Inventive Thinking (USIT) is a simplified and unified version of TRIZ which has overcome the above-mentioned weak-point. All the solution generation methods in TRIZ have been reorganized into a unified hierarchical system of USIT Solution Generation Operators. On this basis, USIT has a clear procedure for creative problem solving process as shown in a flowchart and also has a clear structure, as shown in a dataflow diagram, of transforming problem information stepwise into solution information. ...
           
This paper was originally published in “TRIZ Home Page in Japan” in Nov 2004. Reposted in TRIZsite Journal under the permission of Dr. Nakagawa, Editor, TRIZ Home Page in Japan. For original contents please refer to the author’s site below.


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