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2025/2026

Inventive Engineering

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W31OZ011 ZK 26P+52C
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Department of Mechanics, Biomechanics and Mechatronics
Synopsis:

The student will be acquainted with the principles and procedures of inventive engineering TRIZ method.

History of TRIZ and ARIZ, inventive engineering

Product life cycle.

Conflict in engineering design and procedures for its solution

Methods of overcoming the inertia of thinking

Patent analysis

Heuristic procedures to overcome technical contradiction

Physical phenomena for overcoming physical contradiction

V-pole analysis

ARIZ procedure

Software Invention Machine, TechOptimizer, GoldFire Innovator

Value analysis

Restrictions of TRIZ.

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Study materials:

Altshuller, G.: Creativity As an Exact Science, Gordon 1984

Karen Gadd: TRIZ for Engineers: Enabling Inventive Problem Solving, Springer 2011

David G. Ullman: The Mechanical Design Process, J. Wiley 2003

Valášek, M.: Mechatronic System Design Methodology - Initial Principles Based on Case Studies, In: Mechatronics 98 Proceedings. Amsterdam: Pergamon Press, 1998, pp. 501-506.

Valášek, M.: Applicability of Inventive Engineering to Mechatronics, In: Proceedings of ICED 95. Zürich: Heurista, 1995, pp. 1467-1470.

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