TRIZ for engineers : enabling inventive problem solving / / Karen Gadd

• Autore: Gadd Karen
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (506 p.)
• Disciplina: 620.0028
• Soggetto topico: Engineering - Methodology; Inventions; Problem solving - Methodology; TRIZ theory
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: TRIZ For Engineers: Enabling Inventive Problem Solving; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Part One: TRIZ Logic and the Tools for Innovation and Clarity of Thought; Chapter 1: TRIZ Tools for Creativity and Clever Solutions; What is TRIZ?; Who Uses TRIZ and Why?; TRIZ and Other Problem-Solving Toolkits; Innovation - Fool's Gold or TRIZ?; What does TRIZ Offer?; TRIZ Delivers Systematic, Guaranteed Innovation and Creativity; TRIZ - Helps Us Understand the Problem and All its Solutions; TRIZ Simplifies Systems to Maximize Benefits and Minimize Costs and Harms ; TRIZ Helps Us Overcome Psychological InertiaHow TRIZ Works; The Golden Rule of TRIZ; The TRIZ Toolkit; TRIZ Creativity Tools; TRIZ Creativity Triggers (to be applied at any/all stages as required); Creativity Prompts - Smart Little People and Size-Time-Cost; Smart Little People (SLP); Size-Time-Cost for Visualizing Solutions; TRIZ for Everyone - No Matter What Your Creativity; Chapter 2: TRIZ Knowledge Revolution to Access All the World's Known Solutions; Problem Solving - Resolving Defined Problems; Limited Time for Understanding and Solving Important Problems ; From Random to Systematic Problem SolvingProblems Vary - Some Are Easy, Some Are Difficult; TRIZ Five Levels of Inventiveness/Creativity; How to Access Our Own and the World's Knowledge; TRIZ 'Dictionary' of the 100 World's Conceptual Solutions to Any Engineering Problem; Back to First Principles; Conclusion: TRIZ Access to the World's Knowledge; Case Study: TRIZ in Rolls-Royce; Chapter 3: Fundamentals of TRIZ Problem Solving; What is Problem Solving?; Finding Solutions - Systematic or Eureka Moments?; I'm a Genius - I Don't Need TRIZ Thinking; TRIZ Conceptual Solutions ; Thinking in Time and ScaleMany Solutions to Any Problem; TRIZ for Sharing Solutions; Logic of TRIZ Problem Solving; Understand the Problem - Where's the Fun in That? We Like Solutions; Spontaneous 'BAD' Solutions; Bad Solution Parks; TRIZ Innovation Audit Trails - Importance of Hindsight in Problem Solving; TRIZ Basic logic - Improving Ideality; Choosing Systems to Meet All Needs; Systems Provide Functions Which Provide Benefits; Using the Bad Solution Park at All Stages of Problem Solving ; Functions or Benefits? Functions Imply How We Get Something but Benefits Contain No Solutions in their DescriptionsAvoiding Premature Solutions - Ask WHY ?; Asking WHY and HOW as Practical Problem Tools; How?; Simple Questions to Ask in Problem Solving; Stakeholder Needs and the Ideal; Start by Imagining an Ideal System; Problem Solving at the Right Price with TRIZ - Use Trimming and Resources; TRIZ Trimming; Problem-Solving Steps - Before, During and After; Chapter 4: Thinking in Time and Scale; Talented Thinking; Time and Scale - Helps with All Problems Types ; Inventive Engineers - Thinking in Time and Scale for System Context and All Requirements
• Sommario/riassunto: TRIZ is a brilliant toolkit for nurturing engineering creativity and innovation. This accessible, colourful and practical guide has been developed from problem-solving workshops run by Oxford Creativity, one of the world's top TRIZ training organizations started by Gadd in 1998. Gadd has successfully introduced TRIZ to many major organisations such as Airbus, Sellafield Sites, Saint-Gobain, DCA, Doosan Babcock, Kraft, Qinetiq, Trelleborg, Rolls Royce and BAE Systems, working on diverse major projects including next generation submarines, chocolate packaging, nuclear clean-up, sustainability an
• Titolo autorizzato: TRIZ for engineers
• ISBN: 0-470-97543-1; 1-283-37177-4; 9786613371775; 0-470-68433-X; 0-470-68432-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910133600103321
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