The 1st information letter on TMF-2025 has been published: The TRIZ Methodology Forum is dedicated to the further development of the method. The online forum will take place from September 4 to 6, 2025, four hours a day. All presentations will focus on critical topics or gaps in the method. Each presenter will have 40 … Read more
The theme of ITC-2025 is “Unleashing the Power of TRIZ & AI for Global Innovation”. The conference will be hybrid, presenters must be on-site at Jeju National University in South Korea. The conference language is English. South Korea has now developed into a 2nd center for TRIZ. The event would like to serve as a … Read more
MATRIZ (The International TRIZ Association) has significantly revised its website and now also offers a TRIZ-wiki. The wiki is intended to be an important addition to TRIZ training and to help deepen the understanding of the method: The glossary contains all official definitions of the terms, articles explain individual concepts and an interactive contradiction matrix … Read more
One topic in the TRIZ advanced course (Level 2) is functional analysis for processes. The productive function is described as a function that irreversibly changes the parameters of a product in the desired direction. In my thoughts on function analysis #3, I argued that we should not name parameters, but characteristics and properties that have … Read more
The function carrier is the component that executes the action (sender). The object of the function is the component that is affected by the action (receiver). A function takes place when the following three conditions are met: function carrier and object of the function must be allowed components (domain-specific restrictions from the component analysis must … Read more
The 40 inventive principles are used very shallowly in generative AIs such as ChatGPT. Therefore, the ccTOPP group has made an effort to describe the inventive principles with all its sub-principles and give examples of their use. These were fed into the 40IP GPT, which now delivers much more ideas per inventive principle. The GPT … Read more
My thoughts on functional analysis started as a loose blog series on LinkedIn. In the meantime, the discussion has gone a little further. In this video, I summarize my presentation on the topic, which I gave at the 3rd German TRIZ Conference on 19.6.2024, in English: „Thoughts on function analysis. Developing Function Analysis into the … Read more
Older documents on function analysis define the following: “A function is an action performed by a component to change or maintain a parameter of another component. Preserved here means that the parameter would not exist without the action.” A much better and more correct formulation would be: “A function is an action performed by a … Read more
The ITC-2024 will take place from October 14 to 17, 2024 in Dubai. One focus of the conference is to attract new TRIZ users: Prior to the main event in Dubai, an exclusive MATRIZ Official Level 1 online course will therefore be available five weeks in advance for newcomers. There will be two comprehensive tutorials … Read more
Let’s continue with the thoughts on function analysis … The third consideration arises from my post on domain-specific function analysis: The requirement for a function was that “A parameter of the object must be modified or maintained”. So far, it has been said that a permitted function must satisfy three guidelines: 1. function carrier and … Read more