WTSP Mails and Letters (B4-News2020)  

WTSP Mails and Letters:  Jan. 2020  

 

Editor:  Toru Nakagawa (WTSP Project Leader)
Posted:  Apr.   , 2020

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Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Apr. 8, 2020)

This page intends to post various communications related to the WTSP project, e.g., [WTSP] Letters, [WTSP] Communications, [WTSP] Announcement, etc.  Communications intended for publicizing and those suitable for public disclosure are recorded in the present page.

When I start editing this page (late by 2 months), I noticed that last January I missed to send replies back to many TRIZ colleagues who gave me warm wishes.  So I wrote replies to them and included their messages here.

See also the pages of (B4) WTSP News 2020   and  Letters from Readers
Latest communication is shown at the bottom.

Dec. 31, 2019

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Update of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan"

Jan. 5, 2020 TN ==>WTSP Members, Invitees [WTSP] Letter: (16M-1AB, DE) For further improving the World WTSP Catalogs
Jan. 6 SeHoon CHO (Korea) <==> TN Greetings
Jan. 6 David Levy (UK) <==> TN Solving problems in AI with TRIZ

Jan. 14

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Update of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan"

Jan. 16 TN ==> Readers of THPJ THPJ Update Announcement: Summary of postings (Aug.-Dec. 2019), Greetings New Year 2020
Jan. 16 Czeslaw Cempel (Poland) <==> TN Greetings
Jan. 16 Yury Danilovskiy (Korea) <==> TN Creating short video about TRIZ  fir my grandson
Jan. 16 T J Yeoh (Malaysia) <==> TN Plan of teaching TRIZ in a workshop for teenagers
Jan. 16 Harry Flosser (Germany) <==> TN Chicko Character: Animation of TRIZ principles
Jan. 16 Don Masingale (USA) <==> TN Former activities of promoting TRIZ in Boeing
Jan. 18 Vladimir Petrov (Israel) <==> TN 27 TRIZ Books authored by Vladimir Petrov
Jan. 18 Leonid Chechurin (Finland) <==> TN

Condolences to Toru; I lost my mother and father last year.

Jan. 21 James Kowalick (USA) <==> TN

Q: TRIZ in automobile companies in Japan? Taguchi Method, Kanrisha Yousei Gakko

 

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HP Update Dec. 31

Letter 16M-1

SeHoon CHO

David Levy

HP Update Jan. 14

HP Letter Jan. 16

Czeslaw Cempel

Yuri Danilovskiy TJ Yeoh Harry Flosser Don Masingale Vladimir Petrov Leonid Chechurin James Kowalick

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  "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" Updated (Dec. 31, 2019)  

WTSP Mails and Letters: Nov. - Dec. 2019 (Editor: Toru Nakagawa)
Archived World WTSP Catalogs: (A8-A) (Archived 2019 Oct Version) Revised Preliminary Version of the World WTSP Catalogs
Current Active Version of World WTSP Catalogs (A8) are updated

 

  

  [WTSP] Letter: (16M-1AB, DE) For further improving the World WTSP Catalogs

Toru Nakagawa ==>  WTSP Members and TRIZ Colleagues    Jan. 5, 2020

Dear TRIZ Colleagues and WTSP Members,
Happy New Year 2020 !

Wishing to make the world peaceful and all people healthy and happy, let's work Together ! Connected !! with our understanding and activities of Creative Problem Solving, in spite of the current world situations getting harder.

"TRIZ Home Page in Japan" has been updated last night (dated Dec. 31, 2019) in the English pages:

[1] WTSP Mails and Letters: Nov.-Dec. 2019 (Editor: Toru Nakagawa)

(1) TN: [WTSP] Letter: (15M-2) Significance of WTSP: Message from Bill Fowlkes (Nov. 4)
(2) Edward Blake (UK) <==> TN: Invitation from Research Outreach for possible public outreach publication (Nov. 21-22)
(3) TN: THPJ Update Announcement: Introduction to TRIZ, and Introduction to Six-Box Scheme (in Japanese) (Nov. 23)
(4) TN ==> Posting in LinkedIn: Significance of WTSP and WTSP Catalogs (Message from Bill Fowlkes) (Nov. 25)
(5) TN: [WTSP] Letter (15C-1) For starting the WTSP work in your country:
            to 9 TRIZ leaders/colleagues in UK (Nov. 25),
            to 3 TRIZ leaders/colleagues in Netherlands (Nov. 26),
            to 1 TRIZ leader in Taiwan (Nov. 27),
            to 12 TRIZ leaders/colleagues in Korea (Nov. 27),
            to 8 TRIZ leaders/colleagues in Italy (Nov. 28)
(6) TN: [WTSP] Letter (15M-3) Please submit your WTSP Catalog manuscripts (Dec. 7)

[2] Archived World WTSP Catalogs: (A8-A) (2019 Oct. 20 Version) Revised Preliminary Version

Main pages of the World WTSP Catalogs in the version of Oct. 20, 2019 (i.e.. Revised Preliminary Version) have been duplicated, and one set of them are stored in the Archive with the version name (A8-A).
They are: The management page, The top page (for users), (A) World TRIZ Basic Index (◎○) page, (C) World Around-TRIZ Basic Index (◎○) page
Note: Many subsidiary files, including the files of lists of sites and sites descriptions, will be updated in their Current Active Versions.
Every year, some main pages of WTSP Catalogs will be stored in the archives, with the version names (A8-B), (A8-C), ...

[3] Current Active Version of World WTSP Catalogs (A8) are updated  

World WTSP Catalogs are accessible as before in its Current Active Version, which will be kept up-to-date with additions and revisions.
Manuscripts/updates by any country Teams or methodology groups (or any individual persons) will be accepted at any time by the WTSP Project Leader and will be publicized quickly in TRIZ Home Page in Japan.
And every 3 months such manuscripts will be integrated into the World Indexes for publication

Users may set the following URLs in their bookmarks to access the WTSP Catalogs in its Current Active Version.
Its main pages are:
       The management page:
       The top page (for users): URL: https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/eWTSP/eWTSP-WorldCatalog/eWTSP-World%20Catalog-World/World-Catalog-TopPage.html
       The source document page:
        (A) World TRIZ Basic Index (◎○) page:
        (C) World Around-TRIZ Basic Index (◎○) page:

The update this time is very minor unfortunately.
We wish to improve the World WTSP Catalogs much further and to report the results at ETRIA TFC2020 in Oct. 2020.

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Japanese pages post 2 introductory articles published in "Encyclopedia of Design Science".

The Encyclopedia was newly published on Oct. 20, 2019 by Maruzen Publishing, edited by Japanese Society for the Science of Design (chief editor: Prof. Yoshiyuki Matsuoka).
It was edited by 32 editorial committee members from 6 academic societies in Japan, and was authored by 103 academic and industrial professionals.
It contains: Preface, Designing theories (4 sections), Designing methodologies (45), Analytical designing methods (62), Idea generation designing methods (47), and Evaluation designing methods (12 sections).
It has 705 pages in A5 size.
I am honored and happy to be invited to write about TRIZ and accepted to publish articles on Six-Box Scheme in addition to TRIZ.

[4] TRIZ (Toru Nakagawa) pp. 550-555  
[5] Six-Box Scheme (Toru Nakagawa) pp. 274-277

These 2 articles are posted in my Web site under the permission by the publisher. English translation is not ready.

Best wishes, Toru

 


  SeHoon CHO (Korea) ==> Toru Nakagawa   Jan. 6, 2020

Dear Toru Nakagawa,  Best wishes for a Happy New Year.

I hope all of your planning is done well this year.  I support you for your love of TRIZ and for your efforts to make it widely available and expand your industrial applications.

Best wishes, SeHoon CHO  (Hanwha Precision Machinery Co., Ltd., South Korea)

  TN ==>  SeHoon CHO  Apr. 8, 2020

Dear SeHoon CHO, Thank you for your message on Jan. 6. I am very sorry not to have responded with you so long.
I am now editing my page of "From Readers" in my site. Please allow me to include your message there.
Best wishes, Toru


  David Levy (UK) ==> Toru Nakagawa   Jan. 6, 2020

Dear Professor Nakagawa, I have been looking at your very comprehensive web site about TRIZ.

I am interested in using TRIZ for solving problems in artificial intelligence.
The only paper I can find mentioned by Jae-Hak Bae: "Creative Problem Solving with TRIZ: An example", from 2005.

Are there any other publications on this subject in English?

Kind regards, Dr David Levy, London, England.

  Toru Nakagawa ==>  David Levy  Jan. 16, 2020

Dear Dr. David Levy, Thank you for your message.

There seems no reference direct to your question, but I would like to recommend:

(1) Textbook: "Hands-On Systematic Innovation" by Darrell Mann
(2) Book: "TRIZ Principles for Information Technology" by Umakant Mishra (Oct. 2008)
(3) Paper: "Computational Creativity: Path to Future Civilization" by Valeri Tsourikov 

Best wishes, Toru

  David Levy ==> Toru Nakagawa   Jan. 6, 2020

Dear Toru,   Thank you very much for your prompt and informative response. I appreciate your help.
Kind regards, David


 

  "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" Updated (Jan.14, 2020)  

From the Editor: Message for the New Year 2020 (Toru Nakagawa, Jan. 14, 2020 )
Basic theory: Papers by Toshio Takahara (2018 -2019): Never-Finished Notes on Philosophy: Logic, World View, Way of Life, and Preparing for Post-Capitalism (Toshio TAKAHARA)

  

  "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" Updated (Jan. 14, 2020): Summary of postings (Aug. - Dec.), Greetings on New Year (Toru)

Toru Nakagawa ==>  TRIZ Leaders/colleagues  Jan. 16, 2020

Dear TRIZ Leaders/colleagues,

On the start of New Year 2020, I wish you all the year be healthy, happy, successful, and the World be peaceful.

(Sorry but because of the passing away of my younger brother Akira Nakagawa last March at the age of 75, I would refrain from celebrating the new year.)

Situations in the world, as well as in Japan, are getting unstable and more difficult in many aspects.
In such circumstances, we are studying and promoting 'Creative problem solving methodologies'.
I often feel what I can think and what I can contribute to the society and the world are quite small. But we have only to accumulate such small things day after day.

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I updated my Web site yesterday (dated Jan. 14), and also several times since my last Update Announcement on Aug. 21, 2019.
      (Note: For the communication on the World TRIZ-related Sites Project (WTSP), I have been sending WTSP Letters rather often to about 150 people including many of you. The THPJ Update Announcements are sent to wider audience with a few months interval recently.)

The main postings since last August are:

(a) WTSP Project was reported at Japan TRIZ Symposium (Sept. 5-6, 2019).   'World TRIZ Sites Catalog (Basic Index ◎○)'

(b) Internet surveys (3D)(3E) of Around-TRIZ sites are carried out and the 'World Around-TRIZ Sites Catalog (Basic Index ◎○)' has been built. (Sept. 30, 2019)

(c) WTSP Project was reported at ETRIA TFC2019 (Oct. 9-11, 2019, Morocco).

(d) Sad news that Dr. Ed Sickafus (the developer of USIT) passed away on Nov. 15, 2018. (posted: Oct. 31, 2019)

(e) Communications with various WTSP Letters.     Message from Dr. Bill Fowlkes appreciates the significance of the WTSP project, and encourages us very much.

(f) "Encyclopedia of Design Science" was published in Japanese. It describes 170 methods written by 103 authors in 703 pages. Nakagawa wrote introductions about TRIZ and about Six-Box Scheme.

(g) WTSP Catalogs are archived in their Oct. 2019 version, and are going to be further extended and revised regularly, with overall updating every 3 months. ETRIA TFC2020 (in coming October) is our target for reporting the much revised 2020 Version.

(h) Toshio Takahara's 11 papers (from Sept. 2018 to Dec. 2019) are posted in Japanese and (2 of them) in English. "Never-Finished Notes on Philosophy: Logic, World View, Way of Life, and Preparing for Post-Capitalism" is the title of his intensive research. (posted on Jan. 14, 2020)

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Reflecting these, I am going to work in 2020 for:

(1) World TRIZ-related Sites Project (WTSP):

This year we should extend and improve the WTSP Catalogs much more.
We have to make them evaluated as "The WTSP Catalogs are useful to find good and important TRIZ-related sites with fair and close introductions".
For obtaining such evaluations we need to make good examples of site descriptions after close surveys.

(2) Continuing the studies and promotion of Creative problem solving methodologies:

Study and introduce excellent papers and articles in the world,
build the Dr. Ed Sickafus Memorial Archives (on USIT and his further extensions),
make some overview maps of various relevant methodologies,
translate the "CID course for chldren" (authored by Natalia Rubina) into Japanese, etc. etc.

(3) Further investigate my findings about "Liberty vs Love Contradictions and Ethics".

(4) Try to keep my own daily life creative, healthy, and peaceful.

I am now learning photography; See my recent photo attached:


"Study-Play" (Morocco, Oct. 2019, Toru )

Best wishes, Toru


 

  Czeslaw Cempel (Poland) ==> Toru Nakagawa   Jan. 16, 2020

Dear Toru,    Very many thanks for your good work for international society, and for your good photo too.     you are great.    czeslaw cempel

  TN ==> Czeslaw Cempel     Apr. 8, 2020

Dear Czeslaw, Thank you for your message on Jan. 16. I am very sorry not to have responded with you so long.
I am now editing my page of "From Readers" in my site. Please allow me to include your encouraging message there.
Best wishes, Toru


   Yury Danilovskiy (Korea) ==> Toru Nakagawa   Jan. 16, 2020

Dear prof. Toru Nakagawa,
thank you very much about your congratulations with new year.  I wish you healths also.

My current additional hobby are creation set of short video about TRIZ instruments for my grandson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qv0nJgI4a0
long variant:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2klZfZNiz1U&t=1s

Bet regards, Yury

  TN ==> Yury Danilovskiy     Apr. 8, 2020

Dear Yury, Thank you for your message on Jan. 16. I am very sorry not to have responded with you so long. I am now editing my page of "From Readers" in my site. Please allow me to include your message there.

I visited your site and find many interesting example of TRIZ usage. I will show the top page of your site in my page.
Best wishes, Toru


  T J Yeoh (Malaysia) ==> Toru Nakagawa   Jan. 16, 2020

Dear Toru, Sorry to hear about your younger brother's news. Pls accept my condolences during this difficult times.

Yes, we can contribute in our own small way. I am going to teach in a TRIZ workshop to a group of teenagers (13-17 years old) in March and free tuition (1X/week) to underprivileged children. This is my small way of giving back to society.

May you have a healthy, happy, successful and safe year ahead.
Regards, TJ Yeoh (Malaysia)

  TN ==> T J Yeoh     Apr. 8, 2020

Dear T J Yeoh, Thank you for your message on Jan. 16. I am very sorry not to have responded with you so long.
Your activities look very important and fruitful.
I am now editing my page of "From Readers" in my site. Please allow me to include your message there.
Best wishes, Toru

  T J Yeoh (Malaysia) ==> TN   Apr. 8, 2020

Dr Toru, Good to hear from you. Hope all is well.
Unfortunately, all the activities have been postponed due to the pandemic. Will keep you posted when I have new info.
Till then, take care and be safe.      Regards, TJ


  Harry Flosser (Germany) ==> Toru Nakagawa   Jan. 16, 2020

Dear Toru, my condolences on the passing of your brother.

Best wishes for the New year of metal Rat and for the next 12-year cycle, may we still do our best where ever it might be possible or even necessary.

Thanks a lot for remembering and reporting me about your events and actions.

Best greetings, Harry Flosser

"a picture is worth a 1000 words"   https://harryflosser.com/index.php/en/

P. S. In memory to Nikolai I am now thinking about to re-develop the Chicko. Maybe also to Japanese version. What do you mean?
https://harryflosser.com/index.php/en/gallery/infographics/event/infografik/chicko.html

  TN ==> Harry Flosser     Apr. 8, 2020

Dear Harry, Thank you for your message on Jan. 16. I am very sorry not to have responded with you so long.

I am now editing my page of "From Readers" in my site. Please allow me to include your message there.

I visited your site and found so many interesting animations of quite different characters.
The Chicko site you worte was broken. But I could find another in :
The illustrations you made are very amusing and attractive. I will show one of your illustrations, Reduction-Extension, in my page.

If you make new ones and allow me to insert keywords in Japanese, I will be very happy to do so and show it in my Web site, both in English pages and in Japanese pages.
Best wishes, Toru


  Don Masingale (USA) ==> Toru Nakagawa   Jan. 16, 2020

Toru,   Happy New year to you and yours.   And, very sorry to hear you lost your brother late last year.

Thank you for keeping TRIZ alive and well, amongst the World's problems. You are a true champion of TRIZ.

We also recently lost Zion BarEl late this last year. He was controversial, but also a champion of TRIZ. I began my true TRIZ learning through his early organization by living for about a month with his team. And then applying, teaching, lecturing and coaching thousands of technical and management people in the Boeing company And elsewhere. Before retiring from Boeing, I as well published a monthly news letter on "Innovation and Application of TRIZ" to over 5,000 people in Boeing and elsewhere in the World.

Rarely was TRIZ not well received. But not always adopted in everyday life by those educated in it or informed about it. At least I have satisfaction that to all of those I touched with TRIZ they were instilled with knowledge that there is something beyond the "normal" approach to their problem solving methods that was better.

Over the years I have followed your Nobel Efforts on bringing TRIZ to more of the World and truly admire you and your effort.

I have finally fully retired now and live a peaceful (albeit somewhat dull) life on a Florida beach with my wife. I of course appreciate reading your continued effort in TRIZ education, Archiving, and leading the TRIZ effort and adoption.

Take care old friend and continue your good life and efforts.

With kind regards. Don Masingale

  TN ==> Don Masingale     Apr. 8, 2020

Dear Don, Thank you for your message on Jan. 16. I am very sorry not to have responded with you so long.

I am now editing my page of "From Readers" in my site, and met your message again.
It is new for me to learn about your early activities with TRIZ in Ideation and in Boeing. Even though I was aware that Boeing, NASA, Ford, etc. are active with TRIZ since 1990s, I did not know how they adopted, applied, and promoted TRIZ in their companies.
Even today, TRIZ in US industries are rarely disclosed in conferences and in Web sites, unfortunately.
Please allow me to include your message in my site.
Best wishes, Toru


  Vladimir Petrov (Israel) ==> Toru Nakagawa   Jan. 18, 2020

Dear Toru, Thank you for kind wishes! I wish you happiness, good health, good luck and great success!

I would be happy if my TRIZ books were helpful to you, your colleagues and customers: https://yadi.sk/i/8xl1Sh9D3fGlSA  

Best Regards, Vladimir Petrov

 

(A catalog of 27 books authored by him, containing introductions and table of contents for every book)

 

  TN ==> Vladimir Petrov     Apr. 8, 2020

Dear Vladimir, Thank you for your message on Jan. 16 (and many more). I am very sorry not to have responded with you so long.

I am now editing my page of "From Readers" in my site. Please allow me to include your message there.
I will show the top page of your book catalog in the page.
Best wishes, Toru


  Leonid Chechurin (Finland) ==> Toru Nakagawa   Jan. 18, 2020

Dear Toru, My sincere condolences due to your loss. May your little brother rest it peace and may you find enough power and sense of life to live on and to carry the memory with you.

My parents left me during the passed year, first my mom and then my dad, we all have to learn how cope with these losses, find the point of life again and share what we can with family, students and friends.

My wishes for you to stay in harmony and keep going!
Yours, Leonid

  TN ==> Leonid Chechurin      Apr. 8, 2020

Dear Leonid, Thank you for your message on Jan. 16. I am very sorry not to have responded with you so long.

I am now editing my page of "From Readers" in my site, and met your message again.
I knew your sorrow of missing your mother and your father is much deeper than mine.
I sincerely send you my condolences.
Since my English is not fluent, I could not write a message to you at that time and postponed responding. Sorry.

Please allow me to include your message in my page "From Readers, Jan. 2020".
Stay safe in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Best wishes, Toru


  James Kowalick (USA) ==> Toru Nakagawa   Jan. 21, 2020

Thank you so much, Toru.

Would you know if Japan's automobile manufacturers are using TRIZ? In general, the U.S. car co Lanier are not using it — in spite of Ed sickafus' valiant efforts to introduce it to them.

Are you aware of Dr. Genichi's contributions to the world of products — his brilliant "optimization" techniques? I am one of the few U.S. engineers who really used his methods in great detail — on many varied U.S. products, over the period of 1985 through 2005. He was a great man. Japanese automobile companies truly benefitted from his works.

I am currently studying Chinese philosophies and art - after having studied European classical paintings and music, for 20 years. After enrolling in the management course, "Kanreisha Yosei Gakko" (on Mt. Fuji), my entire view of life changed. Mr. Takerabi's course was superb. Do you know if that training is still active?

Best wishes to you!      James Kowalick

  TN ==> James Kowalick      Apr. 8, 2020

Dear Jim, Thank you for your message on Jan. 21. I am very sorry not to have responded with you so long.
I am now editing my page of "From Readers" in my site, and noticed your message again.
Please allow me to include your message there.

(1) Among the automotive companies in Japan,
Nissan was active in introducing TRIZ and USIT from 1997 to 2005 or so.
Toyota did not try to introduce TRIZ/USIT even though one of their employees, Mr. Hiroshi Igata, was a real pioneer of using Invention Machine's tools around 1993-1996 while visiting at MIT, and Ed Sickafus made a lecture in Toyota in Jun. 1999.
Denso, a group company of Toyota, introduced TRIZ/USIT in their own, slow but steady, way from around 2003 to present. They gave presentations on their way of TRIZ promotion a few times recently in Japan TRIZ Symposia.
All these activities are done in small sections, and depend on the group leaders, who might retire or be moved.

(2) Yes, we know about "Taguchi Method". There are various people in industries, universities, and consulting firms who use and promote the method.

(3) I didn't know about the school you mentioned. So I searched for it in the Internet and have found:
It is Kanrisha Yousei Gakko
Mr. Takarabe seems to have retired already. The President is now Mr. Yasuo Motohashi.
Its Training Courses and Seminars are still operated, but seems slightly less active than 20-30 years ago. They show some videos of their trainings, etc. in their Web site .

Best wishes, Toru

 

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HP Update Dec. 31

Letter 16M-1

SeHoon CHO

David Levy

HP Update Jan. 14

HP Letter Jan. 16

Czeslaw Cempel

Yuri Danilovskiy TJ Yeoh Harry Flosser Don Masingale Vladimir Petrov Leonid Chechurin James Kowalick

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