TRIZ/USIT Document
TRIZ and USIT Solution Generation Methods -- Cross References (Index top)
Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin Univ.), 
  Sept. 18, 2002 
  [Posted in Japanese on Sept. 18, 2002.]
English version: Toru Nakagawa (OGU), Mar. 7, 2003 
  [Posted on Apr. 3, 2003 ]  [Withdrawn: Apr. 8, 2003 - Dec. 18, 2012]
Posted again under permissions :  Toru Nakagawa (OGU), Dec. 22,  2012

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Editor's Note on Re-uploading (Toru Nakagawa, Dec. 18, 2012)

I must apologize for over 9 years withdrawal of the present and subsequent pages due to my mishandling of TRIZ references. As you see, the present page makes cross references of important TRIZ tools with newly developed USIT tools.  As the contents of TRIZ tools, I am using English refereces (and their Japanese versions) which are commonly available in Japan, i.e. Yuri Salamatov's text book and Darrell Mann's textbook.  9 years ago in posting these cross reference pages, I made two mistakes.  First I did not get prior permissions by Dr. Salamatov, Mr. Mann, and Dr. Ed Sickafus.  Second, I did not mention that the concepts of the TRIZ tools, i.e., 40 Inventive Principles, 76 Inventive Standards, and Trends of System Evolutions, were originally developed (almost in the present form) by Mr. Genrich Altshuller.  Contributions of Mr. Altshuller to TRIZ concepts and tools are so universal and well known that I missed to mention it explicitly, to my apology.  Mrs. Valentina Zhuravlyova, wife of Mr. Altshuller, pointed out my second mistake on Apr. 6, 2003, and I withdrew the present and its subsequent pages on Apr. 8, 2003, apologizing for my mishandlings.  

Revising the pages and obtaining permission of my reposting them have been my home task for these years. At first I thought I was requested to use the Inventive Priniciples and Inventive Standards in the original forms published in Altshuller's textbooks; it meant many minor revisions in my pages of cross references.  Several years later I noticed that I should clearly state that those TRIZ tools were originally developed by Mr. Altshuller and are used in a form of easier access especially in Japan.  After a few more years, on Sept. 20, 2012, I wrote to Mrs. Larisa Komarcheva, the Altshulller Foundation, to get her permission of my posting the revised pages.  She gave me her permission, as the official heir of Mr. Altshuller's works, on Dec. 16, 2012.  

I am now happy to upload this page again, after getting permissons by Mrs. Larisa Komarcheva & Ms. Yuna Komarcheva, Dr. Yuri Salamatov, Mr. Darrell Mann, and Dr. Ed Sickafus.  I wish to apologize for my earlier mishandling and to thank for their permissions of my posting these pages again.

I wish this page and subsequent pages serve as the cross references among TRIZ tools and USIT tools.

Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Sept. 18, 2002; Translated into English on Mar. 7, 2003)

This page is composed as a base for making links to indices and summaries of various TRIZ and USIT Tools.  Such a page should be useful and convenient for consulting various methods in TRIZ (and related methods) and their application examples.

In particular, I am trying to build up close and concrete relationships between TRIZ and USIT, which has been discussed and extended in this Web site.  We will be able to use USIT as a new principal framework of our problem solving and yet to access to the extremely rich knowledge bases of TRIZ methods and their application examples accumulated in the world.

At the first step, this page provides with links to several lists of TRIZ and USIT tools.  The documents under this base page will be gradually growing to a system of useful tools and their examples, I hope.

[Note (Toru Nakagawa, Dec. 19, 2012): TRIZ Tools, including 40 Inventive Principles, 76 Inventive Standards, and Trends of System Evolution, were all developed originally by Mr. Genrich Altshuller (Ref. G.S. Altshuller: "Creatrivity as an Exact Science!", Gordon & Breach Science Publishing, NewYork, 1984; G.S. Altshuller: "To Find an Idea", Nauka, Novosibirsk, 1986 (in Russian).  They are refered here in English textbooks (Salamatov's and Mann's) which are more commonly available in Japan.]

Contents and links to TRIZ and USIT Tools 
No. Tool Item Reference  Link to English page (posted/updated) Link to Japanese page
(1) TRIZ  "40 Inventive Principles" Salamatov's TRIZ Textbook (1999) Apr. 3, 2003 2002. 9.18
(2a) TRIZ  "76 Inventive Standards" Salamatov's TRIZ Textbook (1999) Apr. 3, 2003 Sept. 18, 2002
(2b) TRIZ "Inventive Standards" Mann's TRIZ Textbook (2002) Apr. 3, 2003 Sept. 18, 2002
(3) TRIZ "Trends of System Evolution" Mann's TRIZ Textbok (2002)  Apr. 3, 2003 Sept. 18, 2002
(4) Sickafus' Heuristics Sickafus' USIT Textbook (1997) Apr. 3, 2003 Sept. 18, 2002
(A) USIT Solution Generation Methods (Full version) Nakagawa, Kosha, and Mihara (2002) Apr. 3, 2003 Sept. 18, 2002
(B) USIT Solution Generation Methods (Extended version) Nakagawa, Kosha, and Mihara (2002)  Apr. 3, 2003 Sept. 18, 2002

In the following, the Tools are briefly explained just for clarifying the source references actually used.


(1)  TRIZ: 40 Inventive Principles (according to Salamatov's textbook)  -- Cross references to USIT solution generation methods 

Reference to the Inventive Principles (originally developed by G.S. Altshuller):
   "TRIZ: The Right Solution at the Right Time", by Yuri Salamatov, edited by Valeri Souchkov, Insytec, The Netherland, 1999

Composed by Toru Nakagawa on Aug. 15, 2002 in Japanese, and translated into English on Mar. 7, 2003.
Cross-references to USIT methods (A, B).

(2a)  TRIZ: 76 Inventive Standards  (according to Salamatov's textbook)  -- Cross references to USIT solution generation methods 

Reference to the Inventive Standards (originally developed by G.S. Altshuller):
   "TRIZ: The Right Solution at the Right Time", by Yuri Salamatov, edited by Valeri Souchkov, Insytec, The Netherland, 1999

Composed by Toru Nakagawa on Aug. 10, 2002 in Japanese, and translated into English on Mar. 7, 2003.
Cross-references to Mann's list of Inventive Standards (2b) as well as to USIT methods (A, B).  [Salamatov's list is essentially the same with the one in the Altshuller's textbook "Creativity as an Exact Science".

(2b)  TRIZ: Inventive Standards  (according to Mann's textbook)  -- Cross references to USIT solution generation methods 

Reference to the Inventive Standards (originally developed by G.S. Altshuller):
  "Hands-On Systematic Innovation", Darrell Mann, CREAX Press, (May 2002).

Composed by Toru Nakagawa on Aug. 12, 2002 in Japanese, and translated into English on Mar. 7, 2003.
Cross-references to Salamatov's list of Inventive Standards (2a) as well as to USIT methods (A, B).

(3)  TRIZ:  Trends of System Evolution (according to Mann's textbook) -- Cross references to USIT solution generation methods 

Reference to the Trends of System Evolution (originally developed by G.S. Altshuller):
  "Hands-On Systematic Innovation", Darrell Mann, CREAX Press, (May 2002).

Composed by Toru Nakagawa on Aug. 15, 2002 in Japanese, and translated into English on Mar. 7, 2003.
Cross-references to USIT methods (A, B).

(4)  Sickafus' 21 Heuristics-- Cross references to USIT solution generation methods 

The Original reference is:
"Unified Structured Inventive Thinking: How to Invent", Ed Sickafus, Ntelleck, Grosse Ile, MI, USA, (1997).

Composed by Hideaki Kosha and Toru Nakagawa on Aug. 21, 2002 in Japanese, and translated into English on Mar. 7, 2003.
Cross-references to USIT methods (A, B).

(A)  USIT Solution Generation Methods (Full Version) -- Simplified System by the Reorganization of TRIZ Solution Generation Methods 

Originally written by Toru Nakagawa, Hideaki Kosha, and Yuji Mihara as the Appendix to the paper presented at ETRIA Conference, Strasbourg, Nov. 2002.
Posted in Japanese on Sept. 18, 2002 and in English on Nov. 19, 2002.

Full description of the USIT Solution Generation Methods, and contains cross-references to TRIZ Inventive Principles (1), Inventive Standards (2a), Trends of System Evolution (3), and Sickafus' Heuristics (4).

(B)  USIT Solution Generation Methods (Extended Version) -- Simplified System by the Reorganization of TRIZ Solution Generation Methods 

Originally written by Toru Nakagawa, Hideaki Kosha, and Yuji Mihara during the preparation of the published document (Full version) (A).
Posted in Japanese on Sept. 18, 2002.  English translation on Mar. 8, 2003.

Cross-references to TRIZ Inventive Principles (1), Inventive Standards (2a), Trends of System Evolution (3), and Sickafus' Heuristics (4) are shown without shortening the description of the referred submethods in TRIZ.  Thus, this document is recommended for studying the Solution Generation Methods in TRIZ and USIT in its unified scheme.

 

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