Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Jun. 19 , 2006)
This paper was presented in English at the TRIZCON2006 held on Apr. 30 - May 2, 2006 as shown above. The paper was originally written in Japanese as a document recording and explaining the group practice of problem solving in a 2-day USIT Training Seminar. The historical records are:
Execution: Sept. 28-29, 2005. 2-Day USIT Training Seminar held in Tokyo.
Documenting: Oct. 1, 2005. Documented by Toru Nakagawa
Posting: Feb. 1, 2006. Posted in "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" in Japanese
Paper: Mar. 5, 2006. Translated into English and submitted to TRIZCON2006
Presentation: May 1, 2006. Presented in English at TRIZCON2006 (See Personal Report of TRIZCON2006 ).
Posting: Jun. 21, 2006. Posted in "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" in English.In this HTML page, I will show only the Abstract and the table of contents. Please refer to the body of the paper in the PDF format .
A System for Preventing from Our Leaving Things Behind-- A Case in 2-Day USIT Training Seminar --
Toru NAKAGAWA
(Osaka Gakuin University, Japan)
ABSTRACT
USIT (Unified Structured Inventive Thinking) is a methodology and an overall procedure for creative problem solving, originally developed by Ed Sickafus and then further enhanced by the present author as a new generation of TRIZ.Usage and training of USIT are demonstrated in the present paper by example of an actual case of problem solving in a 2-Day USIT Training Seminar carried out with participants in a multi-company situation.The problem was to concept a practical system for preventing from our leaving things behind, such as a bag on a train's shelf, glasses on a restaurant table, an umbrella at an entrance, etc.The initially-vague problem was to be defined more clearly in terms of 'the timing of leaving a thing behind'.Then the situation is analyzed in the USIT scheme of Objects-Attributes-Functions and Space & Time, and ideal solutions are imagined by use of the USIT Particles method.On the basis of these analyses various solution ideas are generated and are composed into a conceptual solution.This example shows the USIT's capability of handling problems which are initially-vague , related to software, and oriented to process, etc.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Outline of the 2-Day USIT Training Seminar
3. The Problem Proposal
4. Problem Definition Stage (Session 1)
5. Problem Analysis Stage (1) Analysis of the Current System (Session 2)
6. Problem Analysis Stage (2) Analysis of the Ideal System (Session 3)
7. Solution Generation Stage (1) Free Generation of Ideas (Session 4)
8. Solution Generation Stage (2) Structuring the Ideas (Session 5)
9. Solution Generation Stage (3) Enhancing the Conceptual Solution (Session 6)
10. Discussion and Remarks
10.1 Choice of This Problem in the USIT Training
10.2 On the Methods of Training of USIT
10.3 On the Methods of Applying USIT
10.4 Evaluation of the Resultant Solution Concepts11. Concluding Remarks
References
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