Inventive Thinking through TRIZ: A Practical Guide

Can a strategy and method for breaking out of rigid thought patterns to achieve truly creative engineering solutions be taught? Genrikh Altshuller, originator of TRIZ in the former Soviet Union, thought so and devoted his career to convincing engineers that TRIZ turns invention into a controllable and systematic process. Now Altshuller's former student Michael Orloff has written a practical introduction to TRIZ (the Russian acronym for TIPS, or Theory of Innovative Problem Solving) that continues TRIZ's algorithmic development and shows how to put it into action. Enabling readers to find solutions efficiently, this book is of extreme practical importance for development engineers and planners in all areas of technology. Orloff not only explains the power and simplicity inherent in classical TRIZ, he further develops classical methods with computer-aided innovations and Navigator refinements. The author's design firm is a leader for TRIZ application in many technical fields.