And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving

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Technical Innovation Center, Inc., 1996 - Education - 171 pages
 

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Contents

Its Impossible
2
Several simple examples
7
Technical Contradictions
13
Think For Yourself
18
Superimpose That Which is Not Superimposable
21
The Era of Technical Systems
25
Boat + Boat
26
Something About the Systems
31
The Roads We Choose
88
Strange Mirrors of the Operator STC Size Time Cost
94
A Crowd of Miniature Dwarfs
100
The Ideal Machine is No Machine
106
The Algorithm of Talent
109
The Suit for Portos
110
Lets Build a Model of a Problem
112
Familiar Trick There is a Substance and There is No Substance
116

Four Periods of the System
34
MField From Generation of SField
39
The Alphabet of SField Analysis
44
Try it Yourself
49
The Science of Inventing
53
Cunning and Physics
54
How to Solve Problems that do not Exist Yet
58
Crown Performance of the Corona Discharge
61
What Was the Boss Thinking About?
63
The Immense Science of Physics
65
The Ribbon Invented by Moebius
67
Aim for the Ideal Final Result
70
Order in the Brains Attic
74
Being an Inventor is a Profession of the Future
78
A Little Bit of Practice
83
The Art of Inventing
87
If The Problem is Stubborn
119
How to Become a Master
121
The Amazing World of Tasks
127
It Takes Wit
128
Keys to Problems
134
Simple Rules
139
Cunning Plus a Little Physics
143
Learn to Invent
150
Into the Inventors Card Index
152
Appendices
163
Answers to Problems
164
Methods Effects and Tricks
168
Providers of TRIZbased Services in the USA
169
About the Author
170
About the Translator
171
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