The TRIZ Journal Article Archive - 2008

November

Welcome to the November 2008 Issue of The TRIZ Journal!

By Katie Barry, Marco de Carvalho, Ellen Domb and Paul Filmore

This month's unofficial theme is time – the past, present and future are all represented. A timeline of the development of TRIZ, TRIZ training in Japan and a look at the evolutionary potential of search engines are three topics to keep readers busy.

USIT in Japan: A Paradigm for Creative Problem Solving

By Toru Nakagawa

USIT, introduced to Japan in 1999, has been accepted as an easy, unified process for problem solving in industries and as the next generation of TRIZ. The solution generation methods of TRIZ have been reorganized into a system of USIT operators.

Comments on "USIT in Japan" by Toru Nakagawa

By Ed Sickafus

Ed Sickafus offers insight into the presentation by Toru Nakagawa at the Fourth TRIZ Syposium in Japan held September 2008: USIT in Japan.

USE and Search Engine Forecast

By Alex Zakharov

The major processing tools for Internet information are search engines (SE). As a direction of SE development, it is suggested to add the universal scheme of evolution (USE) approach to SE technology.

Case Study: Use ARIZ-85 to Isolate Target Proteins

By Hongyul Yoon

Isolation of target proteins requires dissociation of the bindings of the other proteins in an adipocyte. This paper is related to the problem that there was trouble using SDS as a dissociating agent.

Timeline of the Development of TRIZ and Genrich Altshuller

By Vladimir Petrov

The author has assembled a timeline of the major events of the development of TRIZ, and pictures of Altshuller and his family over the years, to celebrate World TRIZ Day and Altshuller's contributions.