Tham khảo tài liệu 'manufacturing handbook of best practices 2011 part 19', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 19 TRIZ Steven F. Ungvari WHAT IS TRIZ Nominally TRIZ is a Russian language acronym for the Russian words teoriya resheniya izobretatelskikh zadatch which can be translated into the theory of the solution of inventive problems. This title is somewhat of a misnomer because TRIZ has moved out of the realm of theory and into a bona fide scientifically based methodology. The development evolution and refinement of TRIZ have consumed some 50 years of rigorous empirically based analysis by some of the brightest scientific minds of the 20th century. Nevertheless the whole notion of creativity and innovation mentioned in the context of science makes for an unusual pairing. Innovation and creativity are typically thought of as spontaneous phenomena that happen in a capricious and unpredictable way in the vast majority of people. Historically only a precious few individuals such as Michelangelo Leonardo da Vinci Henry Ford and Thomas Edison seem to have possessed an innate natural ability for creativity and inventiveness. The name the theory of the solution of inventive problems implies that innovation and creative thought in the context of problem solving are supported by an underlying construct and an architecture that can be deployed on an as-needed basis. The implications of such a theory if true are enormous because it suggests that lay individuals can elevate their creative thinking capabilities by orders-of-magnitude. THE ORIGINS OF TRIZ The inventor of TRIZ was Genrich Altshuller a Russian 1926-1998 . Altshuller became interested in the process of invention and innovative thinking at an early age. He patented a device for generating oxygen from hydrogen peroxide at the age of 14. Altshuller s fascination with inventions and innovation continued through Stalin s regime and World War II. After the war Altshuller was assigned as a patent examiner in the Department of the Navy. As such Altshuller often found himself helping would-be inventors solve various .
