TRIZ For Engineers: Enabling Inventive Problem Solving -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One: TRIZ Logic and the Tools for Innovation and Clarity of Thought -- Chapter 1: TRIZ Tools for Creativity and Clever Solutions -- What is TRIZ? -- Who Uses TRIZ and Why? -- TRIZ and Other Problem-Solving Toolkits -- Innovation - Fool's Gold or TRIZ? -- What does TRIZ Offer? -- TRIZ Delivers Systematic, Guaranteed Innovation and Creativity -- TRIZ - Helps Us Understand the Problem and All its Solutions -- TRIZ Simplifies Systems to Maximize Benefits and Minimize Costs and Harms -- TRIZ Helps Us Overcome Psychological Inertia -- How TRIZ Works -- The Golden Rule of TRIZ -- The TRIZ Toolkit -- TRIZ Creativity Tools -- TRIZ Creativity Triggers (to be applied at any/all stages as required) -- Creativity Prompts - Smart Little People and Size-Time-Cost -- Smart Little People (SLP) -- Size-Time-Cost for Visualizing Solutions -- TRIZ for Everyone - No Matter What Your Creativity -- Chapter 2: TRIZ Knowledge Revolution to Access All the World's Known Solutions -- Problem Solving - Resolving Defined Problems -- Limited Time for Understanding and Solving Important Problems -- From Random to Systematic Problem Solving -- Problems Vary - Some Are Easy, Some Are Difficult -- TRIZ Five Levels of Inventiveness/Creativity -- How to Access Our Own and the World's Knowledge -- TRIZ 'Dictionary' of the 100 World's Conceptual Solutions to Any Engineering Problem -- Back to First Principles -- Conclusion: TRIZ Access to the World's Knowledge -- Case Study: TRIZ in Rolls-Royce -- Chapter 3: Fundamentals of TRIZ Problem Solving -- What is Problem Solving? -- Finding Solutions - Systematic or Eureka Moments? -- I'm a Genius - I Don't Need TRIZ Thinking -- TRIZ Conceptual Solutions -- Thinking in Time and Scale.

Many Solutions to Any Problem -- TRIZ for Sharing Solutions -- Logic of TRIZ Problem Solving -- Understand the Problem - Where's the Fun in That? We Like Solutions -- Spontaneous 'BAD' Solutions -- Bad Solution Parks -- TRIZ Innovation Audit Trails - Importance of Hindsight in Problem Solving -- TRIZ Basic logic - Improving Ideality -- Choosing Systems to Meet All Needs -- Systems Provide Functions Which Provide Benefits -- Using the Bad Solution Park at All Stages of Problem Solving -- Functions or Benefits? Functions Imply How We Get Something but Benefits Contain No Solutions in their Descriptions -- Avoiding Premature Solutions - Ask WHY ? -- Asking WHY and HOW as Practical Problem Tools -- How? -- Simple Questions to Ask in Problem Solving -- Stakeholder Needs and the Ideal -- Start by Imagining an Ideal System -- Problem Solving at the Right Price with TRIZ - Use Trimming and Resources -- TRIZ Trimming -- Problem-Solving Steps - Before, During and After -- Chapter 4: Thinking in Time and Scale -- Talented Thinking -- Time and Scale - Helps with All Problems Types -- Inventive Engineers - Thinking in Time and Scale for System Context and All Requirements -- Why Use Time and Scale? -- Time and Scale Can Be Used in at Least Four Ways -- Context Map -- Solution Maps -- Needs Map -- Causes and Effects and Hazards Maps -- Unidentified Manufacturing Problem - Scrap Rate Rises Dramatically -- Use 9-Boxes to Understand History/Context of a Problem -- Conclusion: TRIZ Aim is to Increase Ideality and Subdue Complexity -- Time and Scale - an Important TRIZ Tool -- Case Study: Applying Time and Scale to Nuclear Decommissioning Research Sites Restoration Limited- an Estimating Workshop -- Part Two: The Contradiction Toolkit -- Chapter 5: Uncovering and Solving Contradictions -- Contradictions - Solve or Compromise? -- What is a Contradiction?.

Spotting Contradictions - But and And -- Systems Meet Needs -- Compromise or Solve? -- 40 Inventive Principles -- Fact or Fiction -- What is a Contradiction? -- Technical Contradiction -- Don't Compromise - or Choose Between Two Conflicting Solutions - Have Both -- Physical Contradiction -- 40 Principles Solve All Contradictions -- Contradiction Matrix -- Solve Technical Contradictions with the Contradiction Matrix -- Contradiction Definition from the 39 Technical Parameters -- The 39 Technical Parameters -- Understanding the 39 Technical Parameters -- Using the Matrix -- Logical Steps for Problem Solving Using the Contradiction Matrix - Start with Bad Solutions -- Solving Problems -- How Can We Match Our Solutions to the 39 Technical Parameters? -- Solving Physical Contradictions -- Separate in Time -- Physical Contradictions are Everywhere in the Real World -- Separate in Space -- Separate on Condition -- Separate by System -- Physical Contradiction Examples -- Finding Physical Contradictions -- Physical or Technical Contradiction -- Use the Separation Principles or Matrix? -- Using the Contradiction Matrix to Solve the Physical Contradiction of the Board Pointer -- Summary of Contradictions -- Case Study: The Large and the Small of the Measurement of Acoustic Emissions in a Flying Aircraft Wing -- Problem: The Measurement of Acoustic Emissions in a Flying Aircraft Wing -- Appendix 5.1: 40 Principles: Theory of Inventive Problem Solving -- Part Three: Fast Thinking with the TRIZ Ideal Outcome -- Chapter 6: The Ideal Solves the Problem -- Simple Steps to Fast Resourceful Systematic Problem Solving -- The Ideal as a Concept Has Four Major Roles in TRIZ Problem Solving -- System We Want - the Acceptable Ideality -- Ideal - Solves the Problem Itself -- Traffic Control Systems - Ideal Self systems.

Define the Ideal - and Then Find the Resources to Create It -- Quick Ideal Problem Solving -- Ideal and Resources -- Role of the Ideal Solution in the Problem-Solving Process -- Ideal - Using Free Resources to Attract Customers -- Genius, Resources and Ideal Thinking -- TRIZ Helps Us Think Like Great Inventors Who Cleverly Use Resources -- Ideal Solution/Machine/User Manual to Uncover All Required Functions -- Ideal Solution and Ideal User Manual for Public Toilets -- Systems - Get the Right System and Get the System Right -- Ideal Outcome to Help Us Appropriately Ignore/Subjugate Constraints -- Too Much Innovation? -- Ideal Outcome to Solve Problems -- Ideal and Constraints, Reality and Problem Solutions -- Constraints = Restrictions on How We Deliver (Not What We Want/Don't Want) -- The Ideal Helps Test Our Real Constraints -- Start with Only Requirements - Initially Forget Both Systems and Constraints -- Ideal, Constraints - and the Appropriate Levels of Problem Solving -- Where and When Do I Solve the Problem of Having a Bumpy Ride to Work on My Bike? -- Conclusion: Ideal Outcome Prompts Us to Understand Requirements and Simultaneously Find Solutions -- Chapter 7: Resources: The Fuel of Innovation -- Using Resources - How to Become a Resourceful Engineer -- Use the Resources We've Got -- Transforming Harms -- Minimize Inputs -- Locating and Defining Resources -- Resource Hunts - Focussed by Functions Which Give Us 'What We Want' -- Resources and Make or Buy Decisions -- Needs - the Beginning of Any Process - Engineering or Otherwise -- Requirements, Solutions and Resources -- TRIZ Helps Engineers Balance Ingenuity and Time to Encourage Innovation in Design -- Functions = Solutions to Give Us What We Want to Deliver -- Life and Death Solutions are Good Resources -- Attitudes, Mood, Fears and Enthusiasm are Significant Resources Too.

TRIZ Problem Solving Using Resources -- Resource Hunt -- Using Super-system Resources -- Resources and Hazards -- Resources When in Peril -- Four Simple Steps to Using Resources More Effectively -- TRIZ Triggers Plus Resources for Practical Solutions -- Clever Solutions Use the Right and Available Resources -- Simple Steps to Resourceful Systematic Problem Solving -- Quick Ideal Thinking -- Ideal Outcome, Delivered by Essential Functions - Look for Relevant Resources -- The Ideal Solves the Problem Itself - Ideal Self Systems -- Seeking Smart Resources to Achieve Certain (Often Opposite) Benefits -- Ideal Self Systems - Ideal Resources Used to Design a Tomato Sauce Bottle -- Best Use of Resources - Overall TRIZ Philosophy -- Chapter 8: Ideal and the Ideality Audit -- Ideality Audit -- Ideal in TRIZ Comes in a Number of Names and Tools -- Ideal Outcome in the Bigger Picture -- Ideality Audit Begins with the Ideal Outcome -- Benefit Capture Exercise -- Undertaking an Ideality Audit -- No System Yet? -- Using the Ideal in Aerospace Problem-Solving Sessions -- Thinking Up Solutions is More Fun Than Meeting Needs -- Different Stakeholders Have Different Ideal Outcomes -- Ideality of All Stakeholders -- TRIZ Embraces Solution-Mode Thinking -- Defining the Ultimate Goal and Prime Benefit -- Subtle Difference Between the Ultimate Goal and Primary Benefit -- Identifying Opposite Primary Benefits -- Ultimate Goal Achieved by Opposite Systems from Opposite Primary Benefits -- Identifying Real Goals - Owning a Submarine Fleet -- Ideal Outcome -- Ideal Outcome and Inventing -- Invention, Ideal Outcome and Science Fiction for Gathering of New Solutions -- Using the Ideal to Invent Systems -- Using the Ideal to Understand What We Want and Then Achieve It - Windows for Houses and Offices -- 1. Problem, Context and Initial Problem Statement + Constraints.

2. Map Context in 9-Boxes.