December, 2008
Manabu Sawaguchi

I want to propose "Creative Risk Management Based on Reverse Thinking (CRMBRT)" as one of the Future- oriented Risk Management Techniques in this paper.  I’ve developed this method (CRMBRT) by using examples from "Subversive Analysis (SA)" as the origin of "Anticipatory Failure Determination (AFD)" developed by Ideation Inc. AFD is one of the contemporary TRIZ techniques. Therefore, it is clear that CRMBRT is in the TRIZ field.

To be more precise, based on this way of subversive thinking, CRMBRT initially requires us to create a lot of "bad ideas" for bringing failures or accidents in the system into reality, with the utilization of not only inventive principles in TRIZ but also functional analysis in VE by involving the environmental resources around the society, so that CRMBRT can clarify the mechanism of "Dangerous Scenarios (DS)" about "Unknown Risks (UR)" in the near future.

November, 2008
Noel Leon Rovira

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development process of a new solar collector concept that allows achieving the performance of vacuum tube solar collectors but at the price of flat plate solar collectors. It is shown how the TRIZ methodology helped to solve technical and physical contradictions during the development process.

Keywords: Solar energy, Solar collector, TRIZ

October, 2008
Prakasan Kappoth

The process of designing technology products has to undergo changes in today’s high tech industry because of many external fluctuations, complexity of a global market and increased uncertainty. Changing customer requirements, fluctuating market trends and market segments, integrating several technologies, and linking with multiple industries to create a bigger consumer spectrum has made the traditional way of conceiving product features difficult.

September, 2008
Umakant Mishra

August, 2008
Victor Fey

Genrikh Saulovich Altshuller was born on October 15, 1926 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (formerly the USSR) to a family of journalists. A few years later, the family moved to Baku, Azerbaijan (USSR).

Altshuller was awarded his first author's certificate (the Soviet-era equivalent of a patent) for a diving gear when he was in the tenth grade. While in high school, he also built and tested a boat with a jet engine that used carbide as fuel.