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Personal Report of The Seventh TRIZ Symposium in Japan, 2011
Held by the Japan TRIZ Society, NPO, on Sept. 8-10, 2011, at Toshiba Kenshu Center, Yokohama, Japan
Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin Univ., Japan),  Oct. 24, 2011
Posted on Oct. 28, 2011

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Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Oct. 24, 2011)

We held the 'Seventh TRIZ Symposium in Japan, 2011' with 115 participants (including 11 from overseas) and 40 presentations (including 9 by overseas presenters). Here is (the first part of) my personal report of the Symposium for the purpose of introducing this significant TRIZ event held in Japan to people all over the world who are interested in TRIZ and its applications. Please refer to the Official Reports and Documents posted in the Official Pages in this Web site and also in the Official Site of Japan TRIZ Society .

The present report is written 'personally' along the line of my series of 'Personal Reports' of important TRIZ conferences, including TRIZCONs in USA , ETRIA TFCs in Europe , and TRIZ Symposia in Japan . I wish to introduce you to the present Symposium, especially in its scientific contents, in a manner as fair as possible even under the limitation of my personal view. I served as the Chairperson of the Program Committee of the Symposium again, but my main face here is just a researcher in TRIZ who has been working to promote TRIZ. A report of this kind would be helpful, I believe, for you to understand the current TRIZ situations in Japan and the world and for you to read some further documents.  The paragraph starting with *** shows my (especially) personal comments.

Since the number and contents of the presentations are big this year again, it has become increasingly difficult for me to write a report in detail.  I am now much delayed in writing this Personal Report, but I will definitely write it through.  I am going to post my Personal Report in steps in several divided parts.  I will use the same framework of the report as my previous ones.  The following table shows the current plan of the contents, and the progress of posting.  In the latter part of this page I have shown tables of presentations tentatively categorized according to this table.

Page	Contents	Links and dates	PDF
Parent page	Editor's Note 1. Outline of the Symposium 2. Organization of the Symposium (with some pre-history)	Oct.28, 2011
Part A	3. Keynote Lectures and Tutorial
Part B	4. Methodologies in TRIZ
Part C	5. Integral Use of TRIZ with Relevant Methods
Part D	6. Case Studies in Industries
Part E	7. Promotion of TRIZ in Industries
Part F	8. Usage of TRIZ in Education and in Academia
Part G	9. Patent Studies and Tools
Part H	10. Applications to Soft & Non-technical Areas
Parent page	11. Miscellaneous 12. Concluding Remarks Next TRIZ Symposium in Japan: Sept. 6 - 8, 2012, Tokyo

 

Top of this page	1. Outline	2. Organization	3. Keynotes	4. Methods in TRIZ	5. Integration with other methods	6. Case Studies	7. Promotion
8. Education and Academia	9. Patent Studies	10. Soft & Non-technical	11. Miscellaneous	12. Concluding	Next Symposium, 2012	PDF of this page	Japanese page

Personl Report (Top)	Part A. Keynotes	Part B. Methods in TRIZ	Part C. Integration with other methods	Part D. Case Studies	Part E. Promotion	Part F. Education and Academia
Part G. Patent studies	Part H. Non-technical	TRIZ Symp. 2011 Official Page (Preparation)	TRIZ Symp. 2011 Official Page (Results)	Japan TRIZ Society Official Site	Personal Report of 2010 TRIZ Symp.	Japanese page of Personal Report (Top)

1. Outline of the Symposium

Name of the conference:	The Seventh TRIZ Symposium in Japan, 2011
Date:	Sept. 8, 2011 (Thu.) 10:00 -- Sept. 10, 2011 (Sat.) 17:30 (3 days)
Location:	Toshiba Kenshu Center, Yokohama, Japan (Training and education facility for employees of Toshiba group companies)
Held by:	The Japan TRIZ Society, NPO
Participants:	115 in total (104 from all over Japan, 11 from 7 overseas countries)
Contents:    (A) Seminar in Japanese	1 Tutorial, 5 Special Interest Lectures;  Group discussions
(B) Seminar in English	1 Advanced Seminar by Simon Litvin (for net 6 hours)
(C) Conference	2 Opening/closing addresses, 1 Keynote Lecture, 1 Invited Lecture , 19 Contributed Oral Presentations, 12 Contributed Poster Presentations, 'Buffet Dinner & Communication', etc.
Proceedings:	Full Edition in digital format, and English and Japanese/English Editions in hard copy

Please refer to the Official pages for the Agenda (in a sheet) , the detailed Agenda (in a tabular form) , Abstracts (overseas) , Abstracts (from Japan) , etc. The Opening Address by Toshihiro Hayashi (Chairperson of Japan TRIZ Society) is also useful as an overall view of the present Symposium. 

The whole Symposium was carried out almost exactly in the order and time as shown beforehand in the Advanced Agenda .  As you see below, the 3-day Symposium was composed this year with 3 parts, i.e., (A) Seminar in Japanese and (B) Seminar in English on the first day, and (C) Conference on the second and third days.

Presentations are referred here in [ ] with the session name, e.g. O-4 for oral and P-A6 for Poster presentations, and the paper submission number, e.g. E07 from abroad and J13 from Japan. 

2. Organization of the Symposium (with some pre-history)

The present Symposium is the sixth one annually held in Japan by the former 'Collaborative Board of TRIZ Promoters and Users in Japan' and its successor 'Japan TRIZ Society, NPO' .  Japan TRIZ Society was officially approved by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in December 2007.  The Society has about 140 members and is operated by about 20 voluntary managing members.

The following table briefly summarizes the growth of our TRIZ Symposia in Japan for these 7 years:

	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Sixth	Seventh
Date	Sept. 1 (Thu) - 3 (Sat), 2005	Aug. 31 (Thu) - Sept. 2 (Sat), 2006	Aug. 30 (Thu) - Sept. 1 (Sat), 2007	Sept. 10 (Wed) - 12 (Fri), 2008	Sept. 10 (Thu) - 12 (Sat), 2009	Sept. 9 (Thu) - 11 (Sat), 2010	Sept. 8 (Thu) - 10 (Sat), 2011
Place	Laforet Shuzenji, Izu, Shizuoka	Pana-Hills Osaka, Suita, Osaka	Toshiba Kenshu Center, Yokohama	Laforet Biwako, Moriyama, Shiga	NWEC, Ranzan-machi, Saitama	Kanagawa Inst. Tech., Atsugi, Kanagawa	Toshiba Kenshu Center, Yokohama
Organizer	Japan TRIZ CB	Japan TRIZ CB	Japan TRIZ CB	Japan TRIZ Society	Japan TRIZ Society	Japan TRIZ Society	Japan TRIZ Society
Invited talks	Keynotes: 2 (T. Nakagawa; D. Mann) ; Vendor talks: 4 (Y. Konishi; M. Sawaguchi; M. Hotta; M. Zenko)	Keynotes: 2 (H. J. Linde; E. Sickafus): Invited talks: 2 (S. Hibino; K. Yamaguchi) Introductory: 1 (M. Sawaguchi)	Keynotes: 2 (L. Ball; S. Dewulf); Invited talks: 3 (T. Hayashi; S. Tamai; N. Okuzumi); Tutorials: 2 (N. Nagase; M. Sawaguchi)	Keynotes: 2 (A. Roggel, S. Ikovenko); Invited talk: 1 (Y. Fukushima); Tutorial: 1 (M. Hotta)	Keynotes: 2 (B. Zlotin, D. Mann); Tutorial: 1 (Y. Fukushima)	Keynotes: 2 (N. Khomenko, M. Karimi); Tutorial: 1 (M. Zenko); Special Interest Lecture: 5 (M. Sawaguchi, K. Yamaguchi, T. Kataoka, Y. Fukushima, T. Nakagawa)	Tutorial: 1 (Y. Konishi); Special Interest Lecture: 5 (O. Kumasaka, K. Shikakura, T. Kamimura, M. Hotta, T. Nakagawa)
							Advanced Seminar: 1 (S. Litvin)
							Keynote: 1 (S Litvin); Invited: 1 (S. Suzuki)
Contri-buted papers	11 Oral presentations; 5 Poster presentations	17 Oral presentations; 12 Poster presentations	15 Oral presentations; 14 Poster presentations	23 Oral presentations; 20 Poster presentations	24+1 Oral presentations; 15 Poster presentations	21 Oral presentations; 11 Poster presentations	19 Oral presentations; 12 Poster presentations
Other features	Opening & Closing Addresses; Closing discussion	Opening & Closing Addresses	Opening & Closing Addresses; Meeting of Japan TRIZ CB & Japan TRIZ Society.	Opening & Closing Addresses; Introductory Discussion, feedback discussion; General Assembly Meeting of Japan TRIZ Society	Opening & Closing Addresses; Introductory Discussion; Free & Group Discussions; General Assembly Meeting of Japan TRIZ Society	Opening & Closing Addresses; Introductory Discussion; Group Discussions; General Assembly Meeting of Japan TRIZ Society	Opening & Closing Addresses; Introductory Discussion; Group Discussions; General Assembly Meeting of Japan TRIZ Society
Partici-pants	104 (Japan 100; overseas 4)	157 (Japan 139; overseas 18)	202 (Japan 191; overseas 11)	180 (Japan 165; overseas 15)	137 (Japan 118; overseas 19)	165 (Japan 119; Korea 41, other overseas 5)	115 (Japan 104; overseas 11)
Official Report	2005 Pre , Post	2006 Pre , Post	2007 Pre , Post	2008 Pre , Post	2009 Pre , Post	2010 Pre , Post	2011Pre , Post
Personal Report	Nakagawa 2005	Nakagawa 2006	Nakagawa 2007	Nakagawa 2008	Nakagawa 2009	Nakagawa 2010	Nakagawa 2011

The TRIZ Symposium was started as an open National conference on TRIZ in 2005 and then have added the International features little by little since 2006.  For overcoming the language barriers we have needed much efforts.  And the efforts have been supported by many presenters/participants/volunteers from Japan and abroad and resulted in much success.  I would like to state our policy of organizing this Symposium with minor modification of my last year report:

For the Sixth TRIZ Symposium, we set its goals in four main points, essentially the same as in the preceding years:

(1)  The first goal is to make the Symposium an open and active conference of all the people involved in TRIZ on the basis of a standard procedure as an academic conference. This procedure was actually carried out very smoothly: In late December 2010 we announced the outline, including the date and the place, of the Symposium. In Feb. 21. 2011, we announced the plan of Symposium and called for papers openly (both in Japanese and in English) ; the Keynote speaker was announced at that time. Then on Mach 11, 2011 Japan met the Earthquake & Tsunami Disasters and the Fukushima Nuclear Plant Accident (See ).  After a month, on April 14, we have announced our decision to continue the preparation for the Symposium in the original schedule.  In May, by receiving one-page extended abstracts of contributed papers, we reviewed them and set up an advance agenda. In mid June, we announced the advance agenda together with the abstracts and called for participation openly . A few late-submission papers from overseas were accepted, while a few papers from overseas were withdrawn in July and August.  The final manuscripts of slides and (optional) full papers were collected by the end of July (the official due date), and prepared for publishing the Proceedings. We are very happy and proud of having done all these smoothly, as you see the Agenda carried out actually has only very minor changes in the Advance Agenda announced in June, i.e. three months prior to the Symposium.

You may notice that we do not adopt the procedure of peer-reviewing of full papers.  The extended abstract of one full page is checked and temporarily accepted by the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of the Program Committee.  Then at the Organizing Committee Meeting (of 7 members including all the 4 members of Program Committee), the submitted papers are screened with rough evaluation of the quality and the scope of subject.  We request revision/clarification to the authors from time to time but we very rarely reject the papers at this stage.  The Advance Agenda is decided by the Organizing Committee and then approved by the Managing Meeting of Japan TRIZ Society.  The final manuscripts are also quickly checked (and sometimes advised for improvement) by the Program Committee but not reviewed/screened.  Thus the authors, and not the Committee, should have the full responsibility for the contents of the presentations.  The choice of either Oral or Poster presentation was made mostly on the basis of Author's preference (Note: Even though there are some delicate cases concerning to this choice, almost all Japanese authors understand the merits and demerits of the two styles in our previous symposia).  These policies are set for the purpose of encouraging people to give presentations. We think the one-page extended abstracts have enough information for the Program Committee to roughly evaluate the quality of the paper and to set up the Agenda in a sensible and appropriate manner.    

(2) The second main goal was to provide as much opportunities of presentation and discussion among all the participants.  We would like to have as many and as high-quality presentations as possible. 

The reviewing/screening policies mentioned in (1) are set for this purpose, of course.

The choices of presentation styles should be considered carefully; especially choice of either oral or poster, and choice of either plenary, double track, or multiple tracks.  We want to keep enough time for presentation and discussion for each paper and need to accommodate over 40 papers in the limited period of time. 

We have chosen the Keynote session to be 80 minutes (60 min. talk + 20 min. Q&A) and the contributed oral sessions to be 40 minutes (30 min. talk + 10 min. Q&A). This length of time is found both necessary and sufficient in almost all cases.  We had to choose double tracks for all the contributed oral presentations (except one in a single track). 

We also had two Poster & Demo Sessions for multiple parallel presentations.  We carried out these sessions as follows: We had a short plenary session for 'Introduction to Posters' where every author outlines their work in 3 minutes by using only 2 to 4 slides.  Then after moving to separate rooms we had the Poster & Demo Session of 6 posters in parallel. By using max. 16 slide pages, the presenters gave a short talk (and discussion) of 20 min. and repeated it two times during the 55 min.session.  Almost all the Symposium participants visited 2 (or 3) poster presentations one after another.  Presenters at the Poster sessions reported afterwards that they presented and discussed for full 70 minutes with eager participants and that they were glad to have given their presentations in the form of posters. --- We feel some types of presentations are suitable for posters and some others for oral talks.

(3) The third main goal was to increase the International nature of the Symposium by somehow overcoming the language barriers.  'Either National OR International' is a form of ordinary choice enforced by a contradiction. We set the target of the Symposium as 'Primarily National AND Partially (but as much as possible) International' since 2006 and have already established our own way of achieving this target.   

The ordinary solution of overcoming language barriers (between Japanese and English languages, in the present case) would be using interpreters. This solution faces with the difficulties in getting skilled interpreters and in cost; Moreover, sequential interpretation loses half of the time while simultaneous interpretation needs special facilities. In contrast to such an oral/contemporary/temporary assistance, we have chosen a new solution based on visual/preparative/permanent assistance.  We have translated the slides beforehand and projected the slides in two languages in parallel, and published the Proceedings in the two language editions. This is a solution based on 'Prior Action' and 'Using Another Sense' (visual assistance). The solution was implemented by the cooperation of Japanese authors to provide both Japanese and English slides and by the organizing members' work of supporting the Japanese authors and also of translating English slides into Japanese.  The translation work was also supported by a number of voluntary people outside the organizing members.  Nevertheless, some Japanese authors chose the option of no English translation, which was approved as a practical choice.

This solution has been evaluated highly by most of the participants and even Japanese authors, according to their answers to our post-conference inquiry. It is useful and good enough for most of Japanese people, who understand English more or less in listening. For people from overseas, however, this solution is helpful to a large extent but not fully, depending on the ways of making slides.  We tried to design the double tracks of the oral presentations to be composed of an English speaking and a Japanese speaking track.  Some Japanese participants went back and forth between the two tracks, but few overseas did so. 

Discussions in most oral presentations (having slides in two languages) are sequentially interpreted in both directions.  This was done by two organizing members and three more voluntary people.  This interpreter service has been appreciated highly by many Japanese participants for much better understanding. 

In this Symposium, submission of presentation slides is requested, while submission of full paper is optional. This policy is preferred by many Japanese industry people, because writing a full paper is a heavy burden for them.  As a result, submission of a full paper was done by very few authors (2 Japanese authors submitted full papers in two languages, and 1 overseas author a full paper in English). -- Starting 2010, we have published the Proceedings in a digital format as well, which enables us to publish all the manuscripts, i.e. both slides and papers, without worrying about the publication cost.  Thus we would like to encourage the authors to submit full papers also.

We still have various difficulties caused by the language barrier and a lot to do for making our Symposium more useful for both Japanese and overseas TRIZ people.

(4) Another main issue we are pursuing is to attract new people to TRIZ and to raise them up to well-experienced TRIZ practitioners.  As a trial for this purpose, we divided 3 days of the Symposium into the Seminar Day and Conference Days.  Seminar (A) in Japanese was was dedicated to beginners with the Tutorial on basic TRIZ, and to people having some TRIZ experiences with five Special Interest Lectures on the positioning of TRIZ in problem solving, on current situations of TRIZ software tools, and on easier process with USIT.  Thus Seminar (A) gives a well-balanced knowledge about basic and contemporary TRIZ.  On the other hand, Seminar (B) in English was meant to TRIZ experienced people for providing an advanced TRIZ methodolgy having wider scope of business challenges.  The Advanced Seminar by Simon Litvin gave a good impact on Japanese TRIZ community.  

The division of the 3 day Symposium into a day of Seminar and two days of Conference was accepted well by most participants who prefer to shorter and more compact event. 

(5)  Case study reports of real or familiar problems are very helpful for people to learn a method and its application.  Our TRIZ Symposium in Japan has a good tradition of practice-oriented approaches and open disclosure of case studies especially by industrial users.  We had a number of such case studies this year again.  We also experienced gradual extension of TRIZ application field out of technical problems.  I would like to review these points along the course of my writing this Personal Report. 

A special situation this year, of course, came from the March 11 Japan Disastrer.  The M9.0 Earthquake and the subsequent Tsunami distroyed and washed away many ports, towns, houses, lives, and resulted in 15,828 victims and 3,754 unfound (according to the police announcement on Oct. 24, 2011).  Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Complex faced with an extremely severe accident by the entire loss of electric power.  By March 15, the nuclear plants had the events of 'melting down' or 'melting through' (as announced by the Japanese Government 3 months later) and explosions of the buidlings outside the reacters.  The Government and TEPCO made various measures for cooling down the neclear reactors, and scarecely managed to get them under control little by little.  Damages to the life lines and infrastructures were serious in Tohoku area and the 'planned blackouts' for saving electric power usage were carried out till the end of March even in and around Tokyo area.  Many TRIZ friends in the world kindly sent me messages with prayers and encouragements, so I posted them in the dedicated page in this "TRZ Home Page in Japan".  Thanks. 

--- A month later in April, the situations were still very unstable mostly due to the Nuclear plant accident but were getting slightly better.  At this stage we JTS made a decision and announced it: 'We will go on in our prepration for holding the TRIZ Symposium in September, even with being ready to any unforeseeable change/cancellation in future'.  Fortunately this decision was strongly supported by our Keynote Lecturer and other overseas friends.  The situations in Japan became stable around May and June, when we accepted contributed papers from Japan and overseas.  Nevertheless, some areas in Fukushima Prefecture need to be evacuated due to the radio active polution.  Some kinds of food were stopped marketing for some (rather short) time.  Mostly because of such news, turists from abroad were much reduced in spring and summer this year.  Thus we are not surprised with receiving only 4 people in contrast to 41 from Korea. We are happy to have 9 people from overseas, who enjoyed our Symposium without any danger/worrying caused by the 3.11 Disaster and Accident.  From Japan we had 104 participants, i.e., slightly less than 119 for the last year. 

As described above in a general organizational context, the Japan TRIZ Symposium has successfully played its big role again this year, we believe.  Please refer to the contents of presentations in the following sections.  

All the presentations are reviewed/introduced in this Personal Report after categorizing them according to their topics.  The tables below show such categorization, where individual presentations are listed with the links to Nakagawa's reviews (click the buttons). 

3. Keynote Lectures and Tutorial  (Part A)

4. Methodologies in TRIZ  (Part B) 

5. Integral Use of TRIZ with Relevant Methods (Part C)  

6. Case Studies in Industries  (Part D)         

Code	Author(s)	Affiliation	Title of presentation	Agenda	Review	Posting of individual paper
J12	Shoji Takahiro, Koga Yousuke, Takeshi Yoshida	(individual) (individual) TRIZ study group, Project management society	A Practical Study of the TRIZ on a Subject of “Comfortable Dry Shoes”	O-4 2nd day PM RA
J02	Yoshiharu Isaka	IDEA Inc.	Applying TRIZ to Solve Job-Related Problems	O-14 3rd day PM RA
J04	Heikan Izumi, Hideaki Koike, Manabu Sawaguchi	IZUMI Products Company IZUMI Products Company Waseda University	An effective cost reduction method based on TRIZ	O-6 2nd day PM RA
J06	Masayuki Ishii, Kazuyasu Ikeda, Hiraki Yoshitaka, Ikuhiro Oyatani, Makoto Unno	Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd Sekisui Engineering Co., Ltd GLORY LTD Mazda Motor Corp. Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd	Study on Development-Phase-TRIZ (part 5) Case Study on Laws of Technical Systems Evolution	O-17 3rd day PM RB
J16	Hideaki Kosha	MPUF USIT/TRIZ study team	Application of familiar material for USIT training (Centering the yolk of boiled egg using USIT)	P-A3 2nd day PM Poster
J17	Teruyuki KAMIMURA	Ideation Japan Inc.	Express DE Project for developing future-generation concepts of: Automobiles of the future tempting young people	P-B2 3rd day PM Poster
J23	Rikie Ishii	Miyagi-TRIZ workshop／IDEAPLANT	TRIZ for Survival Skill	O-２ 2nd day PM RA
E04	Peeramata Peerasak; Khandipanichakul Santad; Pheunghua Tanasak	The CAPAC Rooftile Co., SCG ; Rayong Engineering & Plant Service Co., SCG,; The Inventor Development Co., Thailand	The case study of improve tile cutting edge quality	P-A6 2nd day PM Poster
E14	Khandipanichakul Santad; Pheunghua Tanasak	Rayong Engineering & Plant Service Co., SCG,; The Inventor Development Co., Thailand	The Psychological Inertia Application	P-B6 3rd day PM Poster

7. Promotion of TRIZ in Industries (Part E)                    

8. Usage of TRIZ in Education and in Academia  (Part F)  

9. Patent Studies and Tools   (Part G)   

10. Applications to Soft & Non-technical Areas  (Part H)  

11.  Miscellaneous  

12. Concluding Remarks 

Next TRIZ Symposium in Japan, 2012; Plan    [Oct. 28, 2011]

Japan TRIZ Society, NPO, is currently planning as follows:

The 8th TRIZ Symposium in Japan, 2012 is going to be held by Japan TRIZ Society, NPO

Date:     Sept. 6, 2012 (Thu) through Sept. 8, 2011 (Sat.) (for three days)

Venue:   Waseda University (Building 55, Nishi-Waseda Campus), Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
                  (Near Shinjuku;  at Nishi-Waseda station of Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line)

The preparation schedule for the coming TRIZ Symposium 2012 will be essentially the same as for the last Symposium 2011.  Important dates are:

Announcement of the plan and Call for Papers:         Feb 20, 2012 (Mon.)
Due date of Submitting Extended Abstract:                 May 15, 2012 (Tue.)
Announcement of Advanced Agenda and Call for Participation:      Jun. 11, 2012 (Mon.)
Due date of Final Manuscripts:                                 Jul. 23, 2012 (Mon.)
Due date of Registration for Participation:                 Aug. 22, 2012 (Wed.)

We look forward to your presentation and participation in the next TRIZ Symposium in Japan in 2012!!

 

Top of this page	1. Outline	2. Organization	3. Keynotes	4. Methods in TRIZ	5. Integration with other methods	6. Case Studies	7. Promotion
8. Education and Academia	9. Patent Studies	10. Soft & Non-technical	11. Miscellaneous	12. Concluding	Next Symposium, 2011	PDF of this page	Japanese page

Personl Report (Top)	Part A. Keynotes	Part B. Methods in TRIZ	Part C. Integration with other methods	Part D. Case Studies	Part E. Promotion	Part F. Education and Academia
Part G. Patent studies	Part H. Non-technical	TRIZ Symp. 2011 Official Page (Preparation)	TRIZ Symp. 2011 Official Page (Results)	Japan TRIZ Society Official Site	Personal Report of 2010 TRIZ Symp.	Japanese page of Personal Report (Top)

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