Three-Day Certificate CEP Course

On

Innovative Problem Solving using TRIZ Methods

Feb 28 – March 2, 2003

Need for Systematic Innovation

The goal of all Research and Development in Indian national laboratories is to seek innovative solutions to engineering problems, quickly and with fewer resources. This is required to improve their products and processes so that they can create enhancements above and beyond the technologies developed in countries like the USA, UK, Japan etc. thus enabling them to be set free from the clutches of perpetual dependence on foreign know-how.

However, human nature, specialist training, habits, paradigms and the working environment constrain our innovative thinking. This is called "psychological Inertia" and it has to be overcome to obtain innovative solution concepts for the chronic technical problems.

TRIZ is the only scientifically based systematic methodology that overcomes this "psychological inertia". TRIZ has been proven to produce a large range of fundamentally strong solution concepts in a much shorter time scale even when resources are very limited. TRIZ solutions directly result in improved products at reduced cost.

What is TRIZ ?

TRIZ is a Russian acronym meaning "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving". In 1946, Genrich Altshuller, the founder of TRIZ, was a patent reviewer at the Russian naval patent office. He perceived that there is a definite pattern in the way innovations take place in technical systems. He started a study of 400,000 patents to look for the basic principles and patterns in the world's most innovative patents. This study was continued, by Altshuller and his disciples, over the past 50 years and has yielded a systematic approach for definition and identification of innovative problems, a set of problem solving tools, and a vast knowledge database, which can help solve current technical problems in an innovative way. Today, the TRIZ software database includes the essence of over 2,500,000 of the world’s strongest patents.

What does the course offer?

This course introduces all the main TRIZ tools so that delegates can first identify the "inventive" problem and then find several "innovative" solutions for the same.

Various TRIZ tools covered in the course are : Ideality and Ideal Final Result (IFR), Problem formulation and Functional Analysis, Use of 40 Principles to resolve contradictions, Use of S-curves for technology forecasting, Use of Technology Evolution trends, and Use of extended effects knowledge-bases. The introduction to each TRIZ tool is followed by real world examples of the method in action.

The emphasis throughout the course will be on relevance to the real problems and issues being faced by delegates. In addition to learning through the solution of real problem cases, delegates will have the opportunity to operate the TRIZ tools in realistic circumstances with the aim of generating novel solutions to current problems.

Who should attend?

Key R&D personnel in National R&D labs and academic institutions who are involved in

o Research & Development,

o Quality and Reliability,

o Product Design,

o Process Design, and

o New Product Development

Course Material

Comprehensive notes, that cover all the TRIZ tools, will be given at the time of registration. It will contain 30 pages of “Introduction to TRIZ” and a printout of the contradiction Matrix.

Intellectual Property

TRIZ is already having a profound effect on the generation and protection of intellectual property. The course will pay particular attention to this important area.

Faculty & Course Coordinators

The course will be jointly conducted by

Prof. Prakash R. Apte and Darrell Mann.

Professor Apte has recently joined Indian Institute of Technology at Mumbai and has 30 years of research experience at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. For over 1 decade, he has conducted courses on Process Optimization using Taguchi Methods. For the last 5 years he has been studying the new method of Russian origin, called “TRIZ – Innovative problem solving”, and its potential in innovative research, problem solving and opportunity creation for R&D in Indian National Labs. He has given overview lectures at various academic institutions and R&D laboratories, conducted 2-day courses for Research Scholars at IIT Madras and IIT Bombay and has given CEP courses recently in May & August 2002 at IIT Bombay.

UK-based Darrell Mann is one of the world’s leading TRIZ researchers, teachers and users. Over the last 10 years he has taught TRIZ and other systematic innovation methods to a broad range of blue-chip companies all around the world including Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Exxon, MoD, Mars, Sara Lee, Hoover, Intel, Heidelberg Digital, United Utilities and Volvo. He has published over 100 patents, patent applications, books and technical papers, as well as authoring the best selling TRIZ book ‘Hands-On Systematic Iinnovation’. He is a Director of leading TRIZ research companty CREAX NV in Belgium, and is currently President of the European TRIZ Association.

Together, the two co-ordinators have published numerous research papers on TRIZ in International conferences and in the online web-journal, www.triz-journal.com.

Course Fees

The course fee for the 3-day Certificate course is Rs. 8,000. For the academic people it will be Rs. 5,000/- (for Faculty/Students). Applicants from academic institutions must provide an official certificate from their institute in order to avail the discounted rate. The course fee is inclusive of tea (morning and afternoon) and lunch on all 3 days of the course.

Facilities

Accommodation is available on first-come-first-serve basis for a limited number of participants on payment and with advance intimation.

Registration

Please fill the attached registration form and mail it along with the fees in the form of a demand draft payable to "Registrar, IIT Bombay (CEP A/C)", to the course coordinator at the address given below:

(It may be noted that no income tax is to be deducted at source from the course fee payments as IIT Bombay is exempted from the same.)

Please note that registration closes on 21^st Feb 2003

Prof. Prakash R Apte

Course Coordinator

Reliability Engineering (EE Dept.)

IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India

Tel : 022-2576-7401 (EE office)

Fax : 022-2572-3707

Email : apte@ee.iitb.ac.in

Web : http://www.iitb.ac.in/~cep/

Course Schedule (Daily 9:30 am to 5:30 pm)

Sr. No.	CONTENTS	TIME (Hrs)
		From	To
FIRST DAY
	Registration and inauguration	08:45	09:30
01.	Overview of TRIZ	09.30	11:00
T e a B r e a k		11.00	11.15
02.	History of TRIZ	11:15	12:00
03.	The Basic Findings of TRIZ	12:00	12:30
04.	Fundamental Principles of TRIZ	12:30	13:00
L u n c h B r e a k		13:00	14:00
05.	The Tools of TRIZ : 40 Principles and Matrix	14:00	15:30
T e a B r e a k		15:30	16:00
06.	The Tools of TRIZ : 6 Separation Principles	16:00	17:30
SECOND DAY
07.	Overcoming psychological Inertia	09:30	10:30
08.	Approaches to Innovation	10:30	11:00
T e a B r e a k		11:00	11:15
09.	The Tools of TRIZ : Standards / Su-Field Analysis	11:15	12:00
10.	The Tools of TRIZ : IFR and System Resources	12:00	13:00
L u n c h B r e a k		13:00	14:00
11.	The Tools of TRIZ : Engineering / Scientific Effects	14:00	15:00
12.	QUIZ #1 on TRIZ	15:00	15:30
T e a B r e a k		15:30	16:00
13.	The Tools of TRIZ : Technology Evolution/forecasting	16:00	17:30
THIRD DAY
14.	6 Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking (Edward de Bono)	09:30	10:00
15.	The Tools of TRIZ : ARIZ	10:00	11:00
T e a B r e a k		11:00	11:15
16.	The Tools of TRIZ : Feature Transfer/ Hybrid System	11:15	12:15
17.	Patents and TRIZ : Essentials of patents	12:15	13:00
L u n c h B r e a k		13:00	14:00
18.	TRIZ : Putting it all together	14:00	14:30
19.	TRIZ Software	14:30	15:00
T e a B r e a k		15.00	15.30
20.	CASE STUDIES : Hands-On Session for Participants’ Problem	15:30	16:30
21.	QUIZ #2 on TRIZ	16:30	17:00
21.	CONCLUDING SESSION	17:00	17:30

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Three-Day Certificate CEP Course On

Innovative Problem Solving using TRIZ Methods

Feb 28 – Mar 2, 2003

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