Simplified TRIZ: New Problem Solving Applications for Engineers and Manufacturing Professionals, Second Edition

by Kalevi Rantanen, Ellen Domb

“… a practical guide to the application of TRIZ … compact and well written with a number of easily comprehensible examples. It is a very useful addition to the other books on TRIZ …” ― TQM Magazine This completely revised and updated second edition continues to demystify TRIZ, the internationally acclaimed problem solving technique. It demonstrates how TRIZ can be used to enhance Six Sigma, CM, SCM, QFD, and Taguchi methods. In addition to numerous exercises, worksheets, and tables that further illustrate the concepts of this multinational method, this indispensible volume― • Presents a new model for problem solving based on four TRIZ tenets ― contradiction, resources, ideality, and patterns of evolution ― simplified for better understanding and application • Shows you how to maximize your current technology investment by combining technology with TRIZ • Illustrates how both small and large companies are using TRIZ and achieving significant results • Provides clarification of how the patterns of evolution allow not only “what-if” scenarios, but real forecasts with significant accuracy. With the valuable tools described within these pages you will be able to find innovative solutions to problems, understand the evolution of systems, and develop more ideas, faster.

Genres: Engineering

272 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