Innovation has been an eternal theme through the development of human world. In the new knowledge-based economy era, innovation becomes the most critical factor that drives the sustainable economic development. Computer Aided Innovation (CAI) emerges as one of the fundamental key technology in new product development. Based on the prevailing TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) originated from the former Soviet Union, such a technology combines together the modern design methodology, leading computer technology and the multi-disciplinary knowledge. In the western world, TRIZ is also abbreviated to TIPS (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving.)
TRIZ is a comprehensive and sophisticated theoretical system that comprises of all kinds of methods and algorithms used in technical problems or innovative design. The underlying principles are: The problems and solutions come across in industrial and scientific fields repeat themselves; The evolution trends in these fields repeat themselves as well; The highly valuable innovations are independent of the particular industrial knowledge. Therefore, technical system evolution is in conformity to the objective and generic principles. People can apply these principles to predict the trend for the product development and steer the striving direction. Not knowing how to apply these principles results in difficulty of finding solutions. TRIZ positions to be the most efficient tool in offering these principles as well as determining the striving directions for solutions.
Before the collapse of former Soviet Union, TRIZ remained as a mysterious legend, which astonished USA and its allies with its mighty innovative power in military and defense fields. Despite of the extreme efforts in spying TRIZ, KGB kept the western world away from coveting this so called ˇ°method of turning stone into goldˇ±. Only after the fall of former Soviet Union, could TRIZ become available to the public and be quickly adopted by those reputable enterprises and research institutes. At present, TRIZ has been widely used in the world and led to thousands of major innovative breakthroughs and considerable economic returns.
Targeting the technical contradictions in product design and manufacture, TRIZ based CAI, can achieve innovative solution to the root cause of the problems. Meanwhile, it presents the highly valuable merits of providing scientific guide and revealing the striving direction for the new engineering products and technological innovation. Pro/Innovator is developed based on TRIZ and empowers the new product R&D personnel to efficiently create the high quality innovation solutions without making any technical compromise. As a result, the enterprises become more agile to the market demands and thus strengthen the competitive edge.
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