TRIZ & Lean PD Public Workshops in Shanghai
2007-11-27
Shanghai, China (Dec 1, 9:00 a.m.) -- Prof. Kai Yang, world renowned expert in the area of quality engineering, reliability engineering and Six Sigma conducted two public workshops with InnoLab on TRIZ ¡ª the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, and LPD - Lean Product Development from Nov. 27-30.
80 students in total were participating in the two courses, and enjoyed the plentiful group discussions and real case studies from other companies and teaching from Prof. Yang.
On the first two days, Prof. Yang involved all the students in an on site excise followed by introducing the foundation£¬problem solving flowchart and conception of TRIZ; on the following parts of using 40 invention and separation principles to solve the conflict problems, Yang separated students into 5 groups, and elicited them to find real cases for those principle themselves. After that, students were introduced into furious discussions for finding solutions for 4 problems. Students expressed their opinions by using TRIZ conceptions and methods with sparkles throughout the workshop.
The two-day Lean PD course involved around 50 students from different industries to join in. By finding out the real needs of the students, Prof. Yang added in DFSS, VSM and knowledge Creation. ¡®Product Design Mapping¡¯ was emphasized, discussions held by groups, and Prof. Yang also invited Emerson, Avery Dennison, GE and etc. companies to share experiences.
The companies joined in the workshop include: Black & Decker, GE, Lenovo, Whirlpool, HuaWei, DaTang Mobile, Danfoss, ABB, Electra Consumer Products, Basell, Philips DAP, Haworth, Epcos, Siemens VDO, Yanfeng Johnson Controls Seating, Putzmeister Machinery, Bekaert, Shanghai Komman Vehicle Component Systems, Danaher, Ningbo Bird Sagem Electronics, Ericsson, Webasto, Syngenta, Alstom, Ford, TPO, Positec Power Tool, Baxter Healthcare, Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center, Schindler, Pulse(Suzhou) Wireless Products, Fangle Auto Parts, etc.
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TRIZ
¡®Teoriya Resheniya Izobreatatelskikh Zadatch (TRIZ)¡¯ is the Russian acronym for¡®Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TIPS)¡¯. Dr. Genrich S. Altshuller, the creator of TRIZ, started the investigation on invention and creativity in 1946. Based on the fact that almost all the human inventions are documented in the form of patents, therefore, studying patents could lead to uncover the secrets of inventions and inventors. Dr. Altshuller initially reviewed 200,000 patent abstracts, in subsequent years, many millions of patents are further studied by many TRIZ researchers.
Over the next 40 years (1950-1990), TRIZ was developed into a system of philosophy, problem solving process and methods. The application of TRIZ is also on the rise, based on the TRIZ journal, 105 companies are currently using TRIZ, which include Dupont, Mobile, 3M, Honeywell, Ford, Toyota, BMW, Samsung, Pfizer, Lockheed Martin and so on. TRIZ has helped these companies to developed many breakthrough inventions and greatly improved their competitive position. Noticeably, Samsung is an exemplar company for using TRIZ, according to Fortune magazine, it is TRIZ that helped Samsung to greatly improve its research and development capabilities and made Samsung to surpass Sony as a leading company in consumer electronics. In recent years, researchers in the west also extended TRIZ application to business operation and service industry. Similar to TRIZ inventive principles, which are compiled and derived from patents, business inventive principles (Darrell Mann) are compiled and derived from large number of success business case histories. The successful applications of TRIZ in non-technical sectors are also on the rise.
Overall, TRIZ is a systematic innovation method that is based on the distilled fundamental knowledge of millions of success patents and business case studies. The learning of TRIZ will make people significantly more creative and it shortens the process of innovation, successful TRIZ applications can greatly improve their competitive advantage.
Lean PD:
The lean product development process is aimed to deliver more customer value by using less resource through:
¡¤ Thoroughly capturing the voice of customer and accurately understanding the customer value
¡¤ Effectively transforming the voice of customer into high quality design with high speed and low cost
¡¤ Relentlessly decreasing the wastes in the product development process
 
 

 
 
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