TRIZ Books:
1. Yuri Salamatov. TRIZ: THE RIGHT SOLUTION AT THE RIGHT TIME: A Guide to Innovative Problem Solving. First Edition (English)
Foreword
The book aims to give a systematic overview of the main principles of TRIZ (the Russian acronym for the “Theory of Inventive Problem Solving”). The basic facts, ideas and recommendations of TRIZ are based on extensive analysis of patents and practical work. Through many years of teaching TRIZ, it has served as an effective tool in achieving a rapid increase in the creative potential of specialists. This goal turned out to be quite realistic, despite the skeptical claims of those who still believe in the ‘flash of understanding’. Moreover, the TRIZ target audience consists not only of technical workers (engineers, researchers and students) but also of those who specialize in arts and humanities.
2. Yuri Salamatov. TRIZ: THE RIGHT SOLUTION AT THE RIGHT TIME: A Guide to Innovative Problem Solving. (English)
Foreword
The way of progress lies through generation of new ideas. Throughout the history they saved us more than once. New ideas are ‘produced’ by inventors. In the broad sense, inventors are people who bring something new to every area of social life. If they have rules and methods to generate new, fresh ideas, these rules and methods should be made familiar to everyone. How does the ‘invention industry’ work? How effective is it? Quite surprisingly, this is the only industry in our well-organized world that still practices amateurish and hardly controllable ‘mode of production’. The society is still at the mercy of the elements that govern the inventive mind. A novel idea appears only when somebody decides to find it. But the real problem with inventions is even worse: despite an ardent desire to invent, one may spend months, years, or a whole life falling short of solving the chosen problem. Getting into difficult situations, heroes of books and movies often talk to themselves in the following manner: “What if I do it this way? No, this does not work, let’s try to do it differently.... What if I start from the other side? No, this is all wrong again”, and so on. In this way, the search of variants continues, until the right solution flashes into the hero’s mind. But in reality a solution may take dozens, hundreds or thousands of alternatives. Life may be too short to give the right answer. Nowadays, the era of random collecting of ideas is coming to an end. It is high time we started using a different inventive technology.
3. Yuri Salamatov. TRIZ: THE RIGHT SOLUTION AT THE RIGHT TIME: A Guide to Innovative Problem Solving. Second Edition (Japanese)
Preface to the Japanese edition.
"I am very glad that the book is published in Japan. This fact is even more meaningful to me than English-language edition of the book which apperared in 1999. According to a popular in Russia version, among several factors which can explain success of Japanese industrial corporations one important factor is that these corporations adapted a system of inventiveness and improvement of technology and manufacturing developed in the USSR. I am not sure that this fact is correct, but I am convinced that the use of TRIZ will lead to the next step in organization of nation-wide system of education and further industrial success in Japan. .." read more
4. Yuri Salamatov. LES LOIS D'EVOLUTION DES SYSTEMES TECHNIQUES (Fondements de la Théorie d'Évolution des Systèmes Techniques), 1991-1996 (French)
L'hypothèse principale de TRIZ, qui stipule qu'il existe une indépendance relative entre les processus de conception de nouveaux systèmes techniques et la volonté de l'homme, ne provoque plus aujourd'hui d'objections aussi passionnées qu'autrefois. Il faut avouer, cependant, que dans les milieux scientifique et industriel, on pense encore souvent que l'influence de l'individu est prédominante sur le caractère progressif des évolutions de la technique : "Je suis celui qui innove (conçoit, fabrique) les systèmes techniques, c'est pourquoi tout dépend de moi : si telle est ma volonté, je ferai ainsi ou autrement, le talent peut tout ! (...)"
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5. Yuri Salamatov, Gheorge Doncean, Semyon Savranski.TEORIA EVOLUTIEI SISTEMELOR TEHNICE, 2000 (Romanian)
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