Determination and evaluation of the possible links and sequences between TRIZ and other design methods.

Julien Durand (1) , Pierre-Alain Weite (2) , Claude Gazo (1) , Philippe Lutz (3)

1 IP - Institut de Productique
2 M3M - Laboratoire Mécatronique 3M - Méthodes, Modèles , Métiers
3 LAB - Laboratoire d'automatique de Besançon

TRIZ was really developed in the occident during the 90th and at the end of the 90th for Europe. Probably, the industrial development is not at the level of its potential. It sometimes uses some notions or data very close to the ones used in other methods like functional analysis or FMECA, nowadays widely implemented in the companies product development processes, and constitutes a useful complement of that methods, through its problem resolution process. Identifying and characterizing the possible links between the current methods and TRIZ could thus be an interesting way to improve the design process efficiency. Our research approach has consisted firstly in a decomposition of each method in elementary bricks. Then we analyzed these elementary bricks and according to their objectives and input and output data, we defined possible links enabling to move from a method to TRIZ and conversely. In order to remain close to industrial realities, that work also includes several case studies very useful to detect the links as well as validate them; some of the links we identified are illustrated into a technical example. That approach makes it possible to structure design process, not by a sequence of methods, but by possible sequences of elementary steps (the "bricks") coming from one or another method in order to exploit their contributions as well as possible, and according to each project specificities.

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

Julien Durand, Pierre-Alain Weite, Claude Gazo, Philippe Lutz. Determination and evaluation of the possible links and sequences between TRIZ and other design methods.. ICED'07, Aug 2007, Paris, France. CD ROM - 11 p. ⟨hal-00174135⟩