The Power of 3: QFD, Taguchi, TRIZ

HARTFORD, Conn. - March 9, 2014 - PRLog -- Dr. John Terninko has integrated his diverse experience base (electrical engineering, operations research, organizational development, teaching, continuing education and management consultation) to develop a unique intervention style for organizations. He has been teaching and using TRIZ for 13 years. Consistent with his professional life of being on the cutting edge in QFD and Taguchi for 23 and 27 years, respectively, John has integrated TRIZ, QFD and Taguchi in his approach to design problems

TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) offers an alternative. It also offers something that intrigues me a great deal. An “Inventive” Problem solving that by definition can be said to be a solution that solves a contradiction. The founder of TRIZ, Genrich Altshuller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrich_Altshuller) initially selected 40,000 patents from 200,000 or so that were representative of inventive solutions. Without going into too many details, he used this information to form the basis of where to find examples.

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