TRIZ-Components

The most important components in TRIZ innovation technology can be summarised in the illustration of the TRIZ components table. The simpler methods, for example, the 40 inventive principles, can be integrated more easily to be used as active tools but have some restrictions as to their efficiency in solving complex problems. The table and the picture in the upper left corner show the TRIZ structure and the paths between the individual methods with regard to the different ways of solving technical problems.

Patterns of Evolution of technical systems
Patterns of evolution of technical system (TS) are at the heart of TRIZ innovation technology. Some of the most important ones are:

• Evolution or life cycle of a TS.
• Completeness and minimal functionality of all parts of the TS.
• Flow capability of energy and information inside the TS.
• Increase in Ideality (e.g. cost-to-performance ratio).
• Co-ordination and synchronisation of the system dynamics in a TS.
• Transition of a TS to the super-system and from the macro level to

  the micro level.
• Increase in controllability and flexibility of TS.

Practical applications of these laws are to be found in the various TRIZ tools, in the comprehensive search of solutions and creation of protecting patent fences or in the revealing of the market niches for new products. They are also strategic tools for the analysis of stages in a development and the prediction of the evolution of technical systems.

Author: Dr. Pavel Livotov