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Evaluating The Book “Triz: The Right Solutions At The Right Time”, Umakant Mishra
Evaluating The Book “Triz: The Right Solutions At The Right Time”, Umakant Mishra
Umakant Mishra
The book has 10 chapters, all on different approaches and methods of solving problems. Each chapter tries to solve problems using different techniques of TRIZ. The book not only describes all 40 Inventive Principles, 76 Inventive Standards, 39 Contradiction Parameters and other Techniques of TRIZ, but also illustrates a series of 114 practical problems and their solutions. The book has been translated into many languages including Japanese. This is undoubtedly one of the most impressive and essential textbooks on TRIZ.
The Ideal Ifr Is No Ifr: Criticism To The Triz Concept Of Ideality, Umakant Mishra
The Ideal Ifr Is No Ifr: Criticism To The Triz Concept Of Ideality, Umakant Mishra
Umakant Mishra
The limitations of TRIZ concept of Ideality hail from its root philosophy of Idealism. As the “ideas” are there in human minds/brains they are subjective in nature. The concept of “Ideal” and IFR may vary from person to person as they are biased by individual judgments. Similarly the IFR may vary from system to system and at different phases of the development of a system.
However, the same limitations may be considered as the strengths of Idealism. As the IFRs can be different for different people and groups, the solution developer should not always take his own IFR for granted. …