One-Day CEP Course On

World-Beating Problem Solving using

TRIZ Methods

February 27, 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 in order to give Board level managers an appreciation of what they do, the likely benefits they will bring to an organisation, and their likely impact on strategic develomment of both business models and intellectual property holdings.

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 organisations. In addition to learning through the solution of real problem cases, delegates will have the opportunity to operate the TRIZ tools in realistic circumstances in order to experience the profound benefits likely to be obtained following broad exploitation of the tools within an organisation.

Who should attend?

Board level Directors and Managers within leading edge industrial organisations operating in the areas of:-

o Service Industries

o Software and IT Industry

o Research & Development,

o Quality and Reliability,

o Product Design,

o Process Design, and

o New Product Development

Course Material

Comprehensive notes, describing all of the TRIZ tools and their relevance in defining problems and opportunities and generating world-class business and technical solutions, will be given at the time of registration. It will contain 30 pages of “Introduction to TRIZ” and a copy of the unique Contradiction Matrix for business problems.

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 in Quality and Reliability improvement techniques and 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.

UK-based Darrell Mann is one of the world’s leading TRIZ researchers, teachers and users. Over the course of last 10 years he has taught TRIZ and other systematic innovation methods to senior management teams of blue-chip organisations from 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 the pioneer of TRIZ for Business methods, and is a Director of leading TRIZ research company 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 1-day course is Rs. 3,000. For the academic and research people it will be Rs. 2,000/-. Participant from academic institutions and national R&D labs 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.

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 is closed on 20 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 ( 9:30 am to 6:00 pm )

Sr. No.	CONTENTS	TIME (Hrs)
		From	To
	Registration and inauguration	08:45	09:30
01.	Overview of TRIZ - Innovative Problem Solving and Expected Benefits	09.30	10:30
02.	TRIZ - a systematic approach to problem solving _ Resistance to New Methods _ Overcoming psychological Inertia	10:30	11:00
T e a B r e a k		11.00	11.15
03.	The Tools of TRIZ : 40 Inventive Principles and Contradiction Matrix	12:00	13:00
L u n c h B r e a k		13:00	14:00
06.	The Tools of TRIZ : Ideality and Ideal Final Result (IFR) and System Resources	14:00	15:00
T e a B r e a k		15:00	15:15
07.	The Tools of TRIZ : Laws of Technicaland Business Systems Evolution, S-Curves, technology forecasting	15:15	16:00
10.	Patents and TRIZ : 3 essentials of patents : novelty, non-obvious, useful/low cost	16:00	16:30
11.	Putting It All Together: A Complete Problem Definition, problem solution and evaluation process	16:30	17:00
12.	CASE STUDIES : real problems (by participants)	17:00	17:30
13.	CONCLUDING SESSION	17:30	18:00

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February 27, 2003

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