可拓方法与TRIZ方法在产品创新设计上的应用

Application of Extension Theory and TRIZ to Innovation Design

由中国学者蔡文于1983年所创立的可拓学,发展迄今近20年以来,已经成功地应用在新产品构思、决策、搜索、诊断、识别与评判等各个专业领域,应用其方法可以解决工程上所面临的矛盾问题。而由前苏联学者GenrichS Altshuller于1946所发展之TRIZ(俄文英译:TheoryofInventionProblelmSolving,TIPS)方法,是由两百万余项专利所推演、分析与归类之独到工程矛盾解决方法,对于创新设计工程问题有相当程度之助益。笔者主要研究两方法在产品创新设计之特性与差异,包含前者是以理论学说导向工程应用;后者是以实际结果统计归纳出解决途径等。此外,试图藉可拓方法中的物元变换方法,采用其解决矛盾问题的基本特性,结合TRIZ方法的矛盾矩阵,应用于产品创新改良设计,并得到可行结果。

Contradictions often appear in the realistic world. Researchers always look for the resolution from the ancient times to the present. In innovation design, designers are usually restricted by the conflict between some design parameters and the conflict will interfere with the generation of better innovations. This paper presents a process, which based upon Extension theory, published by Professor Cai Wen, and TRIZ, established by Dr. Genrich S. Altshuller, to design around patents and resolve conflictive problems. By building a matter-element model and utilizing matter-element transformation, designers can avoid the impact of contradictions and search for new concepts. After the generation of new concepts, the contradiction matrix of TRIZ can support designers to transfer the problems and obtain its solution efficiently, and then acquire a new design. Finally, the paper illustrates the process with designing a correction tape device.