AI TRIZ Conference 2018 - II

Conference Chairs

Victor Fey

TRIZ Master
President of The TRIZ Group, LLC
US A

fey@trizgroup.com

        Victor Fey has over 35 years’ experience in TRIZ research, training and application. Since The TRIZ Group’s inception in 1995, Victor has collected more than two decades of consulting experience serving the Global 1000. In this innovation consulting capacity, Victor’s work has ranged the gamut from teaching, coaching and consulting, to facilitating and leading cross-functional teams in delivering critical breakthrough product and technology solutions. Only at Hyundai-Kia Motors, his consulting effort resulted in obtaining over 100 patents with an estimated ROI of $100 million.
        From 1997 through 2014, he was an Adjunct Professor at Wayne State University, where he taught the first graduate-level course in TRIZ in the West. He has lectured on the subject at MIT, Stevens Institute of Technology, Chalmers University, Technion, and others. He chairs the Education Committee of the Altshuller Institute, as well as the Committee for TRIZ Development of the International TRIZ Association’s R&D Council.
        His books include Effective Innovation: The Development of Winning Technologies, published by ASME Press in (co-authored with Don Clausing of MIT), and Innovation on Demand: New Product Development Using TRIZ, released by Cambridge University Press (penned with Eugene Rivin; it was translated into Korean, and a Chinese translation is scheduled for 2019).

Zinovy Royzen

TRIZ Master
President of TRIZ Consulting,Inc

zroyzen@trizconsulting.com

Background:
        Zinovy Royzen is a Master of TRIZ certified by Genrich Altshuller, the creator of TRIZ. He is the founder and President of TRIZ Consulting, Inc., Seattle, Washington, the first company in USA provided TRIZ services for education, projects creation and related problems solving. Zinovy was a cofounder of Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies (AI) and its VP and member of AI Board of Directors for many years.
        He is one of leading TRIZ consultants, project facilitator, trainer, and TRIZ developer. He has taught thousands of engineers including more than two thousand engineers at Boeing. Royzen Zinovy has been applying TRIZ to new product development, quality improvement, cost reduction, and inventive problem solving since 1980. He has been developing and teaching TRIZ since 1984.
        He has led workshops and/or provided consultation at numerous organizations, including Boeing Co., Eastman Kodak, Ford Motor Company, Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, Illinois Tool Works, Ingersoll Rand, Kimberly-Clark, LG Electronics, Lucent Technologies, National Semiconductor, NASA, Paccar, Philips Semiconductors, Samsung, Siemens, Thermo King Corporation, and Xerox.
        Royzen conducted his TRIZ courses for UCLA Extension in 1997-2014. He also conducted his courses at University of Washington and National University of Singapore.
        He is a MS in mechanical engineering, the author of many TRIZ papers and holds 32 patents.

Presentation Title:
Integration of TRIZ into Innovation Culture

Abstract:
        Innovation is critical for companies’ survival and success. Innovation in its turn depends on the quality of new concepts. As a result, the methods used to develop new concepts for product and process development are becoming the keys for success. Companies introducing TRIZ are developing higher quality of concepts and develop these ideas faster than ever before. Zinovy Royzen has almost three decades of experience in introduction of TRIZ to corporations and helping them to integrate TRIZ into culture of innovation. There are many success stories and also lessons learned to achieve high results meeting and exceeding companies’ expectations.

Dr. Marat S.Gafitulin

Business consultant, Master of TRIZ (Diploma No. 14), PhD pedagogical sciences, inventor
The main area of activity is the development and consulting in the sphere of innovations for industry and education.
2001-2003 - was the president of the International TRIZ Association.

mgafitulin@gmail.com
Mobile: 8- (926) -522-1136
Russia, Zhukovsky City

        He had the practice of holding consulting seminars and trainings to solve a wide range of real production problems in Russian and foreign companies: VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation, SEVERSTAL, VMZ, PNTZ, KAMAZ, OCHAKOVO, MTS, TATNEFT, MDM-Komplekt, ELAR, POWER MACHINES, Will Technology, ACE Technology, Woo Kwang Tech, NOXTECH, GD Tech and others.
        He is an author of a number of applied innovative methods. The results of the activity are noted thanks to Russian and foreign organizations. In 2009, a personal award was given for helping small and medium-sized enterprises in the Republic of Korea to solve production problems and develop technology. He has patents from Russia and the Republic of Korea.
        He is an active participant in many scientific and practical conferences. In 2012 and 2013, he was again invited to the Republic of Korea to help solve production problems and conduct innovation seminars for specialists of different profiles and students of the Korean Polytechnic University.
        From 2004 to the current period, he holds series of corporate-command training seminars for large Russian companies to solve real production problems in its regional divisions.

Dongliang Daniel Sheu (许栋梁)

Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan China

Editor-in-chief, International Journal of Systematic Innovation
Area Editor, Computers & Industrial Engineering
President, International Society of Innovation Methods
Honorary President, Society of Systematic Innovation

dsheu@i-sim.org
dsheu@ie.nthu.edu.org

Keynote:
TRIZ++ for Patent Circumvention, Regeneration, and Enhancement

Background:
        Daniel has 9 years of industrial experience primarily in the electronic industries with Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, and Matsushita prior to joining Tsing Hua University in which he has 23 years of academic experiences. He has been invited to deliver keynote/plenary speeches 12 times in international conferences and 15 times in national conferences. Daniel has developed some 20 new TRIZ tools and successfully facilitated industrial teams to solve more than 70 real-world industrial problems which otherwise persisted for multiple years. Daniel published 44 peer reviewed journal papers, 167 conference papers. He authored 8 books, translated 4 books, and hold 7 utility patents. Daniel Sheu holds a B.S.M.E. degree from Taiwan University and an M.S.M.E. degree from State University of New York at Buffalo. He also holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from UCLA and an MBA degree from Northwestern University.

Abstract:
        According to statistics, China paid 18 billion US dollars of patent loyalty to foreign countries each year yet received only 6% of it as loyalty from foreign countries. How to effectively circumvent patents is an important issue.
        Most people focus their efforts on using legal or textual approaches to achieve patent circumvention, this talk will focus on technical analysis of patents which enable us not only to circumvent patents but also to have opportunities to re-generate patents from an existing patent and/or enhance a patent in order to encompass. With this set of proposed approaches, it is possible to convert a patent loyalty payments into patent revenue items.

Outline:
- Importance of patent and innovation value chain
- Overview of patent Circumvention, Re-generation, and Enhancement
- Value hierarchy for problem solving
- Introduction to methods of patent re-generation
- Introduction to methods of patent technical circumvention
- Introduction to methods of patent enhancement
- Summary

Professor Kyeongwon LEE

Full professor at Dept. Mechanical Design Engineering
Korea Polytechnic University

lkw@kpu.ac.kr

Keynote Title:
TRIZ and Design thinking activities in Korea

Speaker Biography:
- Founder of KATA (Korea Academic TRIZ Association) in 2010, that was now extended to KOSCA (KOrea Society of Creativity Application, www.kosca.net ) since 2016
- TRIZ research professor at INSA Strasbourg, France (2013), Wayne State Univ. U.S.A. (2004)
- Post doctorial visiting scholar at Stanford Univ. U.S.A. (1994),
- Graduated from Seoul National Univ. (B.S. in 1986) and KAIST (Master in 1988, Ph.D. in 1993)
- Learned the conventional TRIZ at LG Electronics in 1996 by Russian TRIZ experts
- Secretary General of Korea study group on Design thinking (since 2014)

Abstract:
        South Korea is the most active country on TRIZ applications in the world. At this keynotel speech the presentator explains the effective strategy to introduce and propagate TRIZ into companies such as SAMSUNG, LG, SK Hynix semiconductors, Hyundai Motors etc. through some experiences in South Korea from 1995.
        He introduces how and why the TRIZ activities have declined slowly these days and then, converged with the Design Thinking process that have made at d.school, Stanford University since 2016.
        These days the Design thinking process with TRIZ and Patent/information search in other fields with similar problems for systematic innovation was started to be popular since 2016.
        The Korea-style design thinking process with simplified TRIZ and business model canvas (K-Design thinking process like K-Pop) is developed and spread in Korea.
        The effective strategy to promote and practice TRIZ and Design thinking in companies through findings and lessons learnt from Korean practices may be very helpful to Chinese TRIZ experts and professors.

Prof. Galina Terekhova

Associate Professor of the Faculty of the Theoretical and Applied Psychology
South-Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogical University
Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation

terehovagv@cspu.ru

Keynote:
Guidance for university teachers in mastering students' innovation activities based on TRIZ (Theory of the Inventive Problem Solving)

Abstract:
        The article represents an analysis of educational process of students of Universities at development of innovative activity on the basis of the TRIZ.
        We described the experience of mastering innovations at the theoretical level by introducing disciplines into the content of education, and also at the practical level - providing the opportunity to participate in work with real problems, and skills creation of using received knowledge.
        Our experiment on the introduction of innovative solutions in the process of teaching students made it possible to determine changes in content of the learning process and , and in the system of knowledge evaluation.
        The developed exercises, the structure of consultations and accompanying material contribute to the formation of students' skills in solving real-practical problems in the educational process.

Short Bio:
- Co-organizer of the international scientific and practical conference "Development of creative abilities in the TRIZ-based process of education and training" / Chelyabinsk (2005-2009).
- the author of near 200 articles on TRIZ-based Education.

Directions of Galina Terekhova’s work concerning the TRIZ experiment in education:

- First stage (1994-1999)
        Approaches to the organization of the educational process on the basis of TRIZ were developed; the necessary components for the functioning of the TRIZ education system were identified.
        TRIZ education was completed, included training courses for TRIZ specialists (over 450 hours from leading experts in the field of TRIZ from different countries of Russia, Canada, Latvia, Belarus).
        Approbation of the author's course on the basis of TRIZ for schoolchildren of 6-10 years was completed (1999)
- Second stage (2000-2011)
        Programs for schoolchildren and students were implemented; courses for improving the qualification for the accompanying staff, conceptual provisions were tested. Theoretical positions and results of approbation of the course were presented by the PhD thesis on the topic "Creative tasks as a means of development of creativity of junior schoolchildren in the educational process" and the Master's thesis "Development of creative abilities of junior schoolchildren on the basis of TRIZ".
        Courses for various targeted training in the field of TRIZ education for primary school students, middle school students, students, teaching and administrative staff of educational institutions were developed. So, for example, in the period from 1999 to 2014 more than 7000 schoolchildren attended the course "Lessons of creativity" through the system of additional education. More than 1,000 students (specialty teacher-psychologist) attended course for "Creative Personality Development on the Basis of TRIZ" and “Workshop on Solving Professional Problems Based on TRIZ" for the period from 2003 to 2014. More than 800 students of the Higher School of Management, the Higher School of Service and Tourism and the Higher School of Design attended the course "Fundamentals of TRIZ" in the period from 2011 to 2014. More than 300 teachers-professors passed courses of improvement of professional skill and preparation based on TRIZ for the period from 2005 to 2014.
- Third stage (2011- )
        The main provisions of the concept, the conclusions of the results of the study "psychological and pedagogical support of subjects of TRIZ education" were generalized, refined and improved.
        The conceptual provisions developed in collaboration with the teams of the TRIZ community were tested. For example, the provisions of innovative elements of education and corresponding support were presented in the project "Creator" (a team of TRIZ developers from Russia, Latvia, USA, Belarus), presented for the contest "Skolkovo School" (2011).
        Regulations on the modern directions of TRIZ education in Russia have been developed by order of the Ministry of Science and Technology (South Korea), together with Alla Nesterenko (2012).
        Psychological features of the construction of didactic models of work with the problem in the educational process were presented in the demo version of the electronic textbook "Fundamentals of creative solutions: an experimental course for schoolchildren of grades 7-9" (Publishers "Bookinfile", "Azbuka", co-authored with AA Nesterenko), 2014.
        We created the course of solving problems for students of Korean elementary school (grades 1-6), as well as a set of scientific and methodological support, including a workbook for organizing individual work, handouts for organizing group work, card files and animation (2014).

Prof and Dr. Frieder Sieber

Leibniz Institut Lifis Berlin-Adlershof Deutschland

Keynote:
TRIZ as a method of analysis and creation of environmentally friendly and sustainable technological systems

Abstract:
        The results and experiences of LIFIS ( Leibniz Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, www.leibniz-institut.de ) in the application of TRIZ methods for the solution of environmental problems in the German industry are presented. This presentation discusses the following issues:
        - Content and principles of modern TRIZ methods
        - Interdisciplinary research (TRIZ, continuous technology, artificial intelligence, cybernetics) and their practical implementation in scientific and technical projects
        - content of training activities on interdisciplinary innovation management including TRIZ
        Classical TRIZ is a general technical version. For practical use in engineering, it is necessary to have many specialized versions of TRIZ, differing in their nomenclature and content. Between the various versions of TRIZ there are certainly analogies. Some large corporations already use specialized versions of TRIZ, adapted to their fields of activity. Specialized versions of TRIZ are used to increase the operational efficiency , to reduce energy consumption, to improve equipment performance and to minimize waste.
        This presentation deals with the development of a version of TRIZ for the synthesis and operation of continuous technological processes. These processes play a central role in the environmental sphere. TRIZ methods were used, for example, in the following projects (continuous technological processes):
        - Production of hydrocarbons from organic waste
        - Design, creation and operation of energy autonomous housing and industrial park (energy autonomy of the municipality)
        - An innovative method of using residual heat for power generation
        - Development and testing of mobile heat accumulator for waste heat and thermal mobility
        - Intelligent networks as virtual mini- power plants using renewable sources of energy (Sun, wind, biogas, diesel, etc.)
        - Production of fuel from sewage sludge
        In this field LIFIS cooperates with engineering companies, universities and research institutes in Germany, Russia, Ukraine and Poland.
        Training on the use of TRIZ methods in the framework of interdisciplinary research takes place in the unity of teaching and science. Students are included in the above-mentioned scientific and technical projects. During the study, internships are held in leading companies in Germany, Russia, Ukraine and Poland.

Dr. Anatoly Agulyansky

Israel


anatoly@fluortech.biz
+972-54-333-9825

Short Bio:
        Anatoly holds Ph.D. in Chemistry and collected long-term expertise working in the processing of materials for electronic applications and electronic components manufacturing.
        His experience is in both academic research (Chemistry Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Bordeaux University and Israel Institute of Technology – Technion) and Electronic components manufacturing (Private consultancy, Vishay Intertechnology, and Intel Corporation).
        Anatoly published more than 80 papers and a book.
        He is currently holding a position of Sr. Staff Engineer in Intel Israel.

Keynote:
TRIZ applications in Hi-Tech High Volume Manufacturing

Abstract:
        Hi-Tech High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) starts up and ramps up after a technology development is completed. At this phase, main chronical problems are typically solved and all processes are integrated into production flow. It is considered that the technology should work properly and reliably. The only requirement from HVM engineers is sustaining, allowing to keep the process running.
        However, in real life, a number of problems occur both during and at the end of the process. These problems raised in a form of excursions and should be solved very fast and effectively. Hi-Tech manufacturing flow is typically very long because the material is processed through hundreds of operations, hence any delay in providing solution can result in a huge loss.
        HVM problems must be solved fast; therefore, a special problem-solving flow is typically used. This flow is a strategy that consists of sequential steps for moving from problem definition to problem solution. The main challenge is that the flow does not explain how to complete each step. TRIZ concepts and tools are tightly integrated into HVM problem-solving flow and ensure a quick and effective solution.
        During the speech, the effective integrations and applications of TRIZ tools into this problem-solving framework within Hi-Tech HVM will be discussed in details.