18 Facts About TRIZ

The development and improvement of products and technologies according to TRIZ are guided by the objective Laws of Engineering System Evolution.

TRIZ Problem Solving Tools and Methods are based on them.

An important part of the theory has been devoted to revealing patterns of evolution and one of the objectives which has been pursued by leading practitioners of TRIZ has been the development of an algorithmic approach to the invention of new systems, and to the refinement of existing ones.

TRIZ includes a practical methodology, tool sets, a knowledge base, and model-based technology for generating innovative solutions for problem solving.

TRIZ practitioners apply all these findings in order to create and to improve products, services, and systems.

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TRIZ started developing TRIZ in 1946 while working in the "Inventions Inspection" department of the Caspian Sea flotilla of the Soviet Navy.

TRIZ's job was to help with the initiation of invention proposals, to rectify and document them, and to prepare applications to the patent office.

In 1971 Altshuller convinced The Inventors Society to establish in Baku the first TRIZ teaching facility, called the Azerbaijan Public Institute for Inventive Creation and the first TRIZ research lab called The Public Lab for Inventive Creation.

From 1986 Altshuller switched his attention away from technical TRIZ, and started investigating the development of individual creativity.

TRIZ developed a version of TRIZ for children, which was trialed in various schools.

In 1989 the TRIZ Association was formed, with Altshuller chosen as president.

The central purpose of TRIZ-based analysis is to systematically apply the strategies and tools to find superior solutions that overcome the need for a compromise or trade-off between the two elements.

One of the important branches of TRIZ is focused on analysing and predicting trends of evolution in the characteristics that existing solutions are likely to develop in successive generations of a system.

Case studies on the use of TRIZ are difficult to acquire as many companies believe TRIZ gives them a competitive advantage and are reluctant to publicise their adoption of the method.

Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems and GE are all documented users of TRIZ; Mars has documented how applying TRIZ led to a new patent for chocolate packaging.

TRIZ has been used successfully by Leafield Engineering, Smart Stabilizer Systems and Buro Happold to solve problems and generate new patents.

European TRIZ Association, ETRIA, is a nonprofit association based in Germany, founded in 2000.

TRIZ is considered as a cross-disciplinary, generic methodology, but it has not previously been presented in terms of logic or any other formal knowledge representation.