Simplified TRIZ: New Problem-Solving Applications for Engineers & Manufacturing Professionals

by Kalevi Rantanen, Ellen Domb

As customers and shareholders demand better products faster, more pressure is felt by technical professionals to develop it now and develop it right the first time. Considered the breakthrough design and inventive problem-solving approach of the past 100 years, TRIZ is a unique, algorithmic approach to problem solving that allows engineers, planners and managers to formulate the best possible solutions for technical systems problems and predict future product needs based on technology evolution and competitive advantages. Developed in Russia, the popularity of TRIZ is now spreading to Europe, the United States, and Japan, but until now no comprehensive, comprehensible treatment of the topic has been available in English.

Simplified TRIZ: New Problem Solving Applications for Engineers and Manufacturing Professionals not only demystifies TRIZ, but it also shows how it can be used in new ways to enhance Six Sigma, Constraints Management, Supply Chain Management, QFD, and Taguchi methods to gain innovative and technological competitive advantages. This practical how-to guide teaches you how to solve problems creatively, and more importantly, shows you how to find and foresee the evolution of problems in the future. It provides many exercises, worksheets, and tables to further illustrate the concepts of this multinational method. Implement the same problem-solving tool that many Fortune 500 companies are already using with Simplified TRIZ.

Genres: Engineering

280 pages, Hardcover

First published May 15, 2002

Reviews

[Vladimir Petrov · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book by world-famous TRIZ specialists Ellen Domb and Kalevi Rantanen describes in a simplified form how complex problems can be solved by identifying and resolving contradictions using various principles, ideality, resources, and the use of evolutionary laws allows us to predict the development of future generations of systems.
It is written in a language that everyone can understand, so it is not only easy to read, but quickly learned and very useful and easy to use.
All this is shown in the illustration, small and large companies using TRIZ, which led to the achievement of significant results.
I categorically recommend that you buy and read this book, as if it were a reference book for you, an instrument for solving your problems.

[Jim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as simplified as one might be led to believe. Yes, a shorter review of the methods, but not a compaction, as with SIT, which is based in TRIZ. Folks need something they can walk around with in their heads, so they ask good questions in a range to situation and problems. No one can remember 40ish questions.

[Steve Whiting · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rather repetitive and slow to get to the point in the early chapters, only really getting going around chapter 5. However, once it does get going, it gets better as it goes along