The following topics will be covered in a workshop environment:

1. History and development of TRIZ

2. System Context Outline,

a powerful tool that organizes knowledge about the problem/situation and systematically explores the solution space.

3. Problem Formulation,

(New Additional templates provided) a method that develops all possible problem statements related to the problem in sharp detail, thereby identifying directions for innovation.

4. Contradiction Resolution,

the Contradiction Table and it's 40 principles used to resolve 1200 design contradictions (situations where improving "A" degrades "B"). Separation principles are used to allow simultaneous states, i.e., the product must be both soft and hard.

5. Ideality,

a structure to approach the ideal system, one that performs the required function without the system existing.

6. Algorithm of Inventive Problem Solving (ARIZ),

This course presents ARIZ 1984c

7. Patterns of Technical Evolution,

design directions to tomorrow's designs today by using eight standard patterns of technological evolution.

8. 76 Standard Solutions,

developing a minimal model to describe the system and 76 different ways to improve the system including measurement systems.

9. Failure Analysis,

find the ways of causing failure and then eliminating the cause.

You are encouraged to bring a design problem that has been troubling you and leave with some new concepts. Bring a notebook computer and work on your problem during the seminar.

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