TM061 - TRIZ method - innovation: encouraging creativity, stimulating the search for innovative solutions

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS:

MINIMUM: 4, MAXIMUM: 12

LANGUAGES: 

Training materials: English/French
Trainers: 25+ spoken languages by TRIGO trainers all over the world

RECOMMENDED FOR:

Any employee responsible for product and process innovation, or seeking to solve complex problems and avoid technical compromise solutions, particularly in R&D, engineering, ...

CONTEXT: 

You are looking to:

• Develop creativity in your company, and the ability to find innovative ideas by exploring new technological fields to stay ahead of your competitors.
• Solve complex technological problems quickly by refusing compromise solutions while optimizing company resources.

OBJECTIVES:

• Understand the 40 inventive principles.
• Know how to use the contradiction matrix to identify which inventive principles are most likely to be useful in resolving the contradiction.
• Understand the added value of TRIZ compared to other methods. 
• Assess the potential use and added value of TRIZ in your company.
• Learn additional tools in 

PREREQUISITES:

No prerequisite.

SPECIFIC OPERATING CONDITIONS FOR REMOTE SESSIONS:

• Have a PC with a microphone, a webcam and, if possible, a headset for greater comfort. Note: background screens are available on Zoom or Teams to blur or hide the rear view.
• Have a good Internet connection, to be tested before the session.
• Be installed in a quiet, isolated place ; set yourself to “unavailable” status on Teams ; close your email access, and mute your phone, so as not to be disturbed during the session.
• Participants from the same organization should not be grouped together in the same room, but each at his/ her own desk, to avoid any side discussions during the session. Virtual sub-groups will be specially created for the exercises, which will also enable mixed groups. 
• Remote qualification/certification exams must be taken with camera and microphone open. We may also need to check that you are alone in the room.
• Please connect 5 minutes before the start of the session.

TRAINING METHOD:

The understanding of the approach is acquired through theoretical contributions, examples and practical exercises in sub-groups based on real industrial case studies. During the intersessional period, the trainees apply the approach to a real case from their company. The work is presented on the second day of training.
This training is offered in 2 one-day sessions with a one-month intersession.

TRAINING PROGRAMME

1. Introduction, the origins of TRIZ.
2. The fundamental principles of TRIZ, the levels of inventiveness.
3. Introduction to the 4 stages of the methodology.
4. Stage 1: Documenting the problem: the Innovative Situations Questionnaire (ISQ)
5. Stage 2: Modelling the problem using functional analysis: useful functions, harmful functions
6. Stage 3: The search for innovative concepts.
   a.    The 40 principles of innovation: presentation of the principles and examples
   b.    Formulation of technical, physical, and organizational contradictions
   c.    Resolving technical contradictions: the Altshuler matrix and its 39 design parameters
   d.    Resolving physical contradictions: the 11 principles
7. Stage 4: Choosing solutions
8. Introduction to tools for overcoming psychological inertia:
   a.    DTC operators (Dimension, Time, Cost)
   b.    The 9 screens
   c.    Miniature men The golden fish
9. The 8 laws of technical system evolution.
10. Alternative systems method.
11. The Vepol modelling system: Substances - Fields analysis, and 76 standard solutions.
12. The 6 steps towards ideality.
13. To go further with TRIZ after the training.

EVALUATION METHOD:

Knowledge test (Multi Choice Questions)

SKILLS VALIDATION:

Training qualification certificate

TRANINING MATERIALS:

Participant file including presentations delivered during the course and the exercise materials. Training materials in digital format are made available to trainees a few days before the course.