What Ideation TRIZ can offer the Quality Manager and the Quality Engineer. Includes applications for Inventive Problem Solving, Anticipatory Failure Determination (Failure Analysis and Failure Prediction), Directed Evolution (for the future development of your technology) and Control of Intellectual Property.

An article in The Technology Teacher, the journal of the International Technology Education Association. Describes how technology teachers might use the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) to teach invention in their classrooms, laboratories, and shops. Examples of learning activities are provided.

Published in TIES Magazine, an electronic journal for design and technology education

Abandon Symmetry--Plus additional inventive information about Inventamins and Patents

Eliminate a Stressful Operation--Plus additional information about TRIZ

Transform an Object's Shape--Plus a Lesson Plan Outline for using Inventamins in the classroom

Selv Service--Plus information about Inventamins and TRIZ

Concentrate a Substance--Plus a lesson plan outline

Use Inexpensive, Disposable Objects--plus a lesson plan outline

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This unique combination of methods of invention and the entrepreneurial spirit is offered to students from age 10 to 17. Several schools and hundreds of students have participated with great success, inventing scores of unique products.

The primary GOALS of the Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies: 1. Further the worldwide appreciation of TRIZ 2. Promote annual TRIZ Conferences 3. Distribute TRIZ materials and publications 4. Facilitate TRIZ research and development 5. Translate TRIZ materials 6. Develop TRIZ material for children

Ideation International is the world leader in the development of modern TRIZ or Ideation/TRIZ methodology. Ideation International's business is to help enterprises with the essential function of innovation. Their products and services are based on the Ideation/TRIZ Methodology (I-TRIZ). I-TRIZ is the result of an analysis of over 3 million worldwide patents and the history of technological and social evolution, from which approximately 1000 patterns of invention and more than 500 patterns/lines of technological, market and organizational evolution have been extracted. This extensive knowledge base enables users to develop a practically exhaustive set of possible solution ideas to difficult problems in an expeditious manner. Visit their web site to find a multitude of TRIZ Resources.

Pretium Consulting Services helps you resolve a wide variety of challenging business and technological problems and assists in creating a culture and language of innovation within your organization. Results are delivered through the application of a Structured Innovation Methodology. Pretium offers the following products and services: • Consulting Services to help clients implement the Structured Innovation Methodology (SIM). • Guided Innovation Toolkit™ software to support the Structured Innovation Methodology. • Training and Certification in use of the TRIZ software and Structured Innovation Methodology. • Collaboration/partnership with inventors and start-up companies to enhance intellectual property

The TRIZ Journal, published on line since November 1996, provides several monthly articles and case studies about teh use of TRIZ for invention and innovation in diverse fields of business and industry.