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Overcrowding that happens in places like concerts, stadiums or pilgrimage locations might sometimes cause injury or loss of life. Maintaining the safety of crowd in these places is therefore very important. In addition, increasing the performance of the buildings and structures has always been an important concern. Most of the previous work focus on using new devices and methods for monitoring and management of the crowd but they rarely focus on a comprehensive and structured approach with the purpose of increasing efficiency and safety. In this paper, we explore a Russian “Theory of Inventive Problem Solving”, TRIZ, to see whether its principles can help us to solve or improve overcrowding issues. More specifically we find the contradictions that arise in the context of crowd management and we observe which of categorical solutions suggested by TRIZ might possibly be useful for our problem. Increasing the crowd capacity in a relatively small area, which leads to overcrowding, is one of the common contradictions in crowd management. TRIZ has been suggested as a good method for solving problems which involve contradiction and thus it is chosen for this purpose.

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At the same time, the importance of addressing secondary (consequent) problems has been increasing with widening practical (professional) application of TRIZ. In fact, the higher is the level of the obtained solution, the wider is the range of subsequent problems (in numbers and complexity) that must be resolved to ensure successful implementation.

The proposed paper will address the most typical situations and types of secondary problems and practical recommendations on how to approach them. The paper also will include a number of practical cases illustrating the importance of formulating and prompt resolution of secondary problems

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Solar Energy is the greatest potential of all the sources of renewable energy and presently a small amount of this form of energy is being used. It will be one of the most important energies especially when other sources of conventional and non-renewable energies in the world deplete. Now-a-days, different technologies, methodologies have been developed and introduced to get the optimum energy from the sunlight. In this work, a new design of solar plate collector system has been developed using TRIZ (a Russian acronym for Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) by arranging solar collectors in various positions and angles to get optimized energy form the sun. The inventive principles suggested by the novel tool for innovation TRIZ have been used for the new design of solar plate arrangements which has been tested in real time with handful of experiments to get optimized energy form the sun. Apart from solar power optimization, to overcome the open terrace area constrains for multi storey buildings, high-rise dwellings, a new design solar plate collector arrangement has been designed and developed exclusively for multi storey buildings. This may be tested with rigorous experiments in further study.

Key words: Solar Energy, TRIZ, Optimization, Innovation, Multi storey buildings, High-rise dwellings.

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Scifictology is a new discipline for studies of various aspects of Science Fiction (SF) by different approaches. Based on the study approaches, Scifictology included several sub-disciplines such as Inventological Scifictology and Educational Scifictology. Inventological Scifictology refer to the interactive role of Science Fiction and inventions. Inventology as a sub-discipline of Creatology (multi-disciplinary science of Creativity & Innovation)is related to analytical studies of inventions (patents) and engineering and management of invention. Thus TRIZ can plays an important role in Inventology. TRIZ-based Inventology is using of methodology, principles and tools of TRIZ for Inventological studies. Science Fictions inspiring inventions, and inventions inspiring Science Fictions. Studies shows that many Science Fictions inspired from inventions by an imaginative forecasting approach, and reciprocally there are many inventions and technological innovations that their creators inspired from Science Fictions.

Keywords: Scifictology – Inventology – Creatology – TRIZ – Science Fiction – Inventological Scifictology – Systematic inventive imagination.

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The results of applying TRIZ to several information technology (IT) problems are summarized and reported. Two case studies demonstrate examples of applying the 9 Laws to predict the next state of technology in IT Services and Business Intelligence. Four case studies demonstrate examples of problem formulation and conflict resolution via the application of the 40 Principles to IT problems, including data security, software development estimation, long-term service contract flexibility, and IT cost reduction associated with server and storage utilization. In each case, a summary of the business problem is presented, followed by an overview of the TRIZ analysis, and a review of the outcome. TRIZ helped uncover novel and innovative solutions in these cases. These applications offered an opportunity for assessing the usage modalities TRIZ in a non-physical domain, and the lessons learned regarding the applications of the 9 Laws, system conflicts, and the principles are also presented. These cases demonstrated that TRIZ is a viable approach for systematically solving certain IT problems, and guidelines for selecting these problems is also discussed.

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High quality TRIZ training programs that include study of the theory of why the new method works, demonstrations of how to perform the new method, and extensive practice and feedback using the new method, produce significant increases in knowledge and skills. Unfortunately transfer of the new method into everyday practice occurs with only about 5% of the trainees. This has been a perennial problem noted by TRIZ trainers. Discovering how to increase the transfer of training into practice is a significant problem for the organization investing large sums of money in TRIZ. A search for solutions outside of TRIZ is appropriate, as the same problem exists in teacher professional development programs until one additional component is added to the training program. Educational consultants and researchers have discovered that the addition of this single component, without significant additional investments of time and resources, can increase transfer of training into practice to 95% of the participants. This paper will describe the component and report how it can be incorporated in training programs. Successfully demonstrating high levels of use provides a benefit to consultants and the businesses that hire them.

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During TRIZCON 2007 several in the TRIZ community met under the leadership of Wes Perusek, Altshuller Institute Educational Advisor, with the general objective of setting a direction for integrating TRIZ in the educational system in the United States. Following the conference, Malkin and Halliburton began work on a product to deliver TRIZ principles in a simplified form for use with middle and high school students. The initial result, the Guided Brainstorming Toolkit™ web-book, was presented to teachers and interested parties during a pre-conference workshop at TRIZCON 2008 in Kent, Ohio. The work has since gone through two iterations of implementation, field-testing, and revision. The Invention Road™ web-book now meets the initial objectives to provide a product that:
·       Introduces some of the basic concepts of TRIZ,
·       Makes a connection to an area of the school curriculum that emphasizes invention, innovation, and design,
·       Is easy for middle and high school teachers and students to use on-line, and
·       Can be applied and learned in a very brief amount of time.

The products and results of the field tests will be reported along with directions for future development.

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Authors: Richard Platt (Strategy + Innovation Group LLC, USA), Sergei Ikovenko GEN3 Partners, USA, Joe Ficalora (Joe Ficalora Associates, USA)

Abstract: Speed and Profitability are cornerstones of manufacturing, the tools and methods used, define the ability to get competitive advantage. Rapid proto-typing tools are an industry standard, however the advantages that these provide are now common place for many to use. The true competitive advantage is gained when using these tools in new, unique and different ways than they have typically been used.

Understand a new set of methods and approaches simplifying the process and mitigating the risk all the while lowering product and process costs during the all critical NPI phases of manufacturing

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In keeping with the theme of this conference, “TRIZ for New Beginnings,” it is time to kick TRIZ up a notch and expose its ideas to new disciplines. One discipline that can greatly benefit from TRIZ application is music. The possibilities for application are endless from music composition, to musical training, to idealizing musical performance.

Dr. Luke was able to idealize Theory of Constraints (TOC), Theory of Innovative Problem Solving (TRIZ) and Logic in his 2002 doctoral dissertation.

In this paper, Dr. Luke has applied his methodology to the process of creating a better chord book for musical instruments. Dr. Luke has successfully implemented these ideas and sold these chord books worldwide. With the current process in place, Dr. Luke can generate a new chord book for any fretted instrument tuned to a chromatic scale in any tuning within a matter of minutes. Not only does this provide a niche need, but it also is easily marketable because the books are generated in pdf form and do not have to be printed in large quantities.

Future applications already in development are automatically generated scale books, chord books for non-fretted instruments, and chord books for diatonically tuned instruments. Dr Luke is also in the process of developing a similar product for songbooks.

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The Theory of Innovative Problem Solving (TRIZ) is a great approach to stimulating fresh, new ideas for new beginnings in designs. In keeping with TRIZCON2010’s theme, “TRIZ for new Beginnings,” this paper will demonstrate ways to take TRIZ to a completely new level.

TRIZ is a wonderful device to generate conceptual ideas to solve a problem, improve a design, or introduce a new product. The problem with TRIZ is that it is too good at generating ideas. In most any design there are enough technical and physical contradictions to generate thousands of ideas.

Theory of Constraints (TOC) is a wonderful device to narrow the focus of a process to the weakest link- the area holding a system or product back from meaningful improvement. The problem with TOC is that it offers no systematic methodology to solve the weakest link it identifies.

Merging TRIZ and TOC is a logical choice and has been done many times. In this paper, TRIZ and TOC are joined with a logical framework in which not only the weakest link can be analyzed further, but the area that affects most of the process can also be identified for TRIZ idealization.

This paper is a summary of the results of my Doctoral Dissertation and will be submitted with real-life examples of application of its principles.

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Learn how TRIZ-tools apply to healthcare. Understand how TRIZ-methodology enables the creation of short-term and long-term next generation ideas in the area of endoscopic surgery from concept, through prototyping, to TRIZ-forecasting, and building an extensive IP portfolio for Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES). NOTES is an experimental surgical technique whereby "scarless" abdominal operations can be performed with an endoscope passed through a natural opening, thus avoiding any external incisions or scars. Leading endoscopic surgeons seriously consider NOTES to be the next major paradigm shift in surgery, just as laparoscopy was the major paradigm shift during the 1980s and 1990s.

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