Campinas, SP - Brazil
emoura@qualiplus.com.br
Keywords: TRIZ, TOC, ARIZ, Current Reality Tree (CRT), Conflict Resolution Diagram (CRD), Ideal Final Result, Physical Contradiction, problem formulation.
Abstract
This article shows how some of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) logical trees, namely the Current Reality Tree (CRT) and the Conflict Resolution Diagram (CRD) can be useful for graphically describing the inventive situation and identifying / selecting the core problem to be tackled via ARIZ or other TRIZ methods, as well as to more easily identify the contradictions involved in the problem.
Prelude
By this article I humbly request entrance to the TRIZ authors community. That’s because I don’t consider myself a TRIZ wiseman, given my experience of just three years with such a powerful and complex methodology. Incidentally, before going into the main subject of discussion, I’d like to share with the readers some frustration I had during my first steps on the TRIZ road. By attending to TRIZ symposia in the USA and listening to some long-time travelers along that road (famous consultants), I always left with the somewhat exaggerated perception that one should not dare to use TRIZ without a 20-year experienced black belt by his side (preferably the one who was giving the lecture). But soon I was glad to read in a book from the TRIZ Master of Masters: “I want to emphasize that anyone can become a professional - you just have to learn the subject matter. That’s it. ... Talent is 99% hardwork. ... First, you have to become a professional. Anyone can accomplish that. Then, we will see.... This book is enough for you to start” [1]. So after a relatively short period of TRIZ study and “incubation” (this actually never ends...) I started to use it and had the rewarding surprise that much can be accomplished in the creativity arena with just a little TRIZ basics. That is not to say that TRIZ is trivial (much on the contrary) nor that there is no benefit in hiring a consultant (which I am too, by the way). The point is that TRIZ is so powerful that once you study and add a pinch of it to your technical knowledge and engineering common sense, you’re on the way to becoming a more creative professional. And, along the road, you will probably want to call that consultant for help, so we’ll all be happy. But that should not preclude you from self-studying and self-learning TRIZ.
Read more: http://www.triz-journal.com/archives/1999/09/e/index.htm
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