💡For some time TRIZ (Theory of Innovative Problem Solving) has inspired me. Based on practical training, I like to expand my competences. Gaining knowledge from smart people is always a great joy. If I go to a workshop, I care a lot about the level of content. I also pay attention to the overall message of the person I will be training for.
📈 For example, 2 years ago I was given a software that didn’t sell and was difficult to use. I started doing my analysis in excel. Today, after the TRIZ training, I know what I was creating in those tables and why. I created a so-called ‘Functional Analysis’ in combination with ‘Trimming’. At the time, it allowed me to see which functions were needed for the basic version and would be necessary in contact with real users. It worked, these features from my analysis were thrown into the core of the application. This allowed me to move forward with marketing and sales. In the process of advertising the software, I also applied my practices and analysis.
💀 During the TRIZ level 1 certification, tasks from ‘everyday life’ had to be solved. The “Technical and Physical Contradiction” methodology had to be used to remove the problem. For a long time, I could not find an example. I took aim at a non-technical example. I was inspired by my female colleagues because they are in the process of writing books. The task was “To write a short book so that it is comfortable to read, but at the same time, it contains all the valuable information to share”. A bit confusing, but just an example. It turned out that the inventive methods developed by Henryk Altshuler (creator of TRIZ) are applicable to solving humanistic problems. I am really impressed with how and to what conclusions the method has led me when solving a ‘non-physical’ task.
😇 One of my favorite inventive principles of TRIZ is “going to another dimension” – or so-called “upside down”:
👉The object should move in two or three dimensions,
👉Change the single-storey structure of the object to a multi-storey one,
👉Tilt the object or turn it on its side,
👉Use the reverse side of an object or an available surface,
👉Use light streams falling on an adjacent object or on the reverse side of an essential object.
🧠In conclusion TRIZ, showed me how to efficiently combine an intuitive creative process🖤 with a methodology for solving innovative tasks based on algorithms💻, without forgetting optimization 📌.
For sure I will implement all new skills to my nvh engineering services.Â
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