Personal Report of ETRIA TRIZ Future Conf. 2016 (Oct. 24-27, 2016, Poland) (Toru Nakagawa)

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Personal Report of The 16th ETRIA TRIZ Future Conference (TFC 2016)
Held by ETRIA and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, on Oct. 24-27, 2016, at Wroclaw, Poland
Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin Univ., Japan), (in Japanese) Feb. 7, 2017 (Short Introduction) (in English) Feb. 11, 2017 (Skeletal only); (Enhanced) Mar. 30; Apr. 24; Jun. 4; Jun. 21, 2017
Introductions to Individual Papers: A. Methodology of TRIZ, (Mar. 30, 2017) B. Integral Use of TRIZ with Relevant Methods, (Mar. 30, 2017) C. Case Studies in Industries (Apr. 24, 2017) D. Promotion of TRIZ in Industries, (Jun. 4. 2017) E. Usage of TRIZ in Education and in Academia (Jun. 4, 2017) F. Patent Studies (Jun. 21, 2017) G. Applications to Soft & Non-technical Areas (Jun 21; Jul. 18, 2017)
Posted on Feb. 14, 2017; Updated: Mar. 30; Apr. 24; Jun. 4; Jun. 21; Jul. 18, 2017

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Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Feb. 11, 2017)

I have made up my mind to write a 'Personal Report' of ETRIA TRIZ Future Conference 2016 (TFC2016), which was held late October last year at Wroclaw, Poland. In the field of TRIZ, a few of international conferences and a larger number (probably a few tens) of regional/domestic/company-organized conferences are held every year in the world. Papers/presentations at such conferences are mostly not known even for people interested/involved in TRIZ, because they are accessible only by the participants/members or because in cases of open Web access several tens of them are just flatly listed. Overviews of the papers and introductions to good papers would be useful for promoting TRIZ, only if appropriate reviews are done. I am dare to play such a role of evangelist in TRIZ by restarting to write 'Personal Reports' of TRIZ conferences, after a few years of interval.

The present page in English is just a skeletal of my Personal Report, containing only a list of all the papers categorized with topics. I have just posted a Japanese page having very-brief introductions to all the papers, which are written after reading Authors' Abstracts and presentation slides (made available to TFC2016 participants). After reading papers closely one after another, I am going to write introductions to them in English. It will take two months or so for me to finish and posting my Personal Report in English.

Japanese page

Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Mar. 24, 2017) I am going to post 'Introductions to Papers', in several pages inHTML, according to their categories in themes. See Section (5) of this page for the list of papers and the links to introductions of individual papers.

A. Methodology of TRIZ (posted on Mar. 30, 2017)
B. Integral Use of TRIZ with Relevant Methods (posted on Mar. 30, 2017)
C. Case Studies in Industries (Posted on Apr. 24, 2017)
D. Promotion of TRIZ in Industries, (posted on Jun. 4. 2017)
E. Usage of TRIZ in Education and in Academia (posted on Jun. 4, 2017)
F. Patent Studies (Jun. 21, 2017)
G. Applications to Soft & Non-technical Areas (Jun 21; Jul. 18, 2017)

A. Methodology of TRIZ

B. Integral Use of TRIZ with Relevant Methods

C. Case Studies in Industries

D. Promotion of TRIZ in Industries

E. Usage of TRIZ in Education and in Academia

F. Patent Studies

G. Applications to Soft & Non-technical Areas

(1) Outline of the Conference

Name: 16th International Conference of ETRIA: TRIZ Future Conference 2016 (TFC2016)

Held by: ETRIA (European TRIZ Association) and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Wroclaw, Poland)

Sponsored by:

Date: Oct. 24 (Mon.) through Oct. 27 (Thu), 2016
(Note: Oct. 27 is an Open Workshop Day)

Venue: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Wroclaw, Poland)

Web site: http://www.tfc2016.com/

(2) Outline of the Agenda

Oct. 24 (Mon):
Tutorial (for beginners, 2 hrs), Lunch, Open ceremony, Keynote （Tomasz Arciszewski (USA)), Presentations (12 papers in triple tracks), Networking Evening

Oct. 25 (Tue):
Keynotes (Piotr Sroka (Poland), Jacek Czech (Poland)), Presentations (12 papers in triple tracks), Lunch, Presentations (10 papers in triple tracks), Presentations (5 papers in double tracks), Gala dinner

Oct. 26 (Wed):
Keynotes (Radoslaw Cieslak (Poland), Dana Clarke (USA)), Presentations (8 papers in triple tracks), Lunch, Closing ceremony, ETRIA members meeting, Excursion (Wroclaw Zoo, Special talk (Radoslaw Ratajszczak (Poland)))

Oct. 27 (Thu):
Open Workshop Day: Tutorials/Workshops (in quadruple tracks, 1.5 hrs), Lunch, Tutorials/Workshops (in quadruple tracks, 4.5 hrs)

(3) Invited speakers and participants

Keynote Speakers:

Tomasz Arciszewski (Professor Emeritus at George Mason University, USA): Keynote: TRIZ Mysterious Contradiction

Piotr Sroka (Country Leader at WABCO, Poland) : Keynote

Jacek Czech (Business development executive at National Chamber of Commerce, Poland): Keynote

Radoslaw Cieslak (MFG Project Manager at Autodesk, Poland): Keynote: The future of making things - How to meet user demands

Dana Clarke (Professor at Vermilion Institute of Technology, and CEO at Applied Innovation Alliance, USA): Keynote: A Foundation for Increasing Human Intelligence; Advanced Tutorial: TRIZ Tutorial for advanced

Radoslaw Ratajszczak (President of Board at Wroclaw Zoo, Poland): Special talk: Africarium: Where tradition meets innovation

Leaders at Tutorials/workshops:

Mateusz Slupinski, Konrad Klepacki, Sebastian Koziolek, Marek Mysior, Bartosz Pryda, Mariusz Ptak, Damian Derlukiewicz, Marek Malkowski, Surabh Kwatra, Nina Defounge

Participants:

The conference had roughly 100 registered participants, I guess. Many of them came from various countries in Europe, including many from Poland. Samsung (Korea) sent a delegate of about 10 people without giving any paper. From Japan, Professor M. Sawaguchi with his two colleagues attended beside myself. Majority of the participants were from academia and consultancy, while rather few from industries (as usual for ETRIA TFCs).
The Open Workshop Day on Oct. 27 was an active event for openly inviting many people from industries and students/graduate students in the university; Over 100 people seemed to join various tutorials and workshops.

(4) Organization and management

Just as in the previous conferences, ETRIA takes the responsibility for organizing the conference in the aspects of contents and their quality (including the reviewing of papers, editing the proceedings, and operation of the conference presentations), while the host organization (i.e., Wroclaw University of Science and Technology) is responsible for all other practical preparations and operations (including the venue setting-up, registration of participants, preparation of social events, printing of the Proceedings, operation of the Web site, etc. etc.) and for the financial management.

Host organizations of TFC have been changing year after year in different European countries. Host organization volunteers 2 year beforehand and is decided one year beforehand. Preparing for and hosting TFC is certainly a difficult job for the organizers, I suppose. The Host's hope that the invitation of international TRIZ conference would certainly contribute to encourage the nation in their further development of industries and innovations would support their endeavors. We thank all the people who made this conference a success, especially Professor Sebastian Koziolek, Mr. Marek Mysior, and Mr. Bartosz Pryda.

The schedule for submitting a paper was:
    Submission of the abstract by Mar. 29, then some easy review,
    Submission of the paper manuscript by Jun. 27, and then review process by 2 reviewers,
    Submission of the camera ready paper by Sept. 12.

ETRIA is making much efforts for the TRIZ researches to be recognized by academia; it is trying to keep the qualities of the TFC papers high by a reviewing process. The review process was carried out in two sections, i.e., Scientific section and Practitioner section, where about 20 specialists were asked to serve as the referees.

Keynote lectures were given either 30 or 60 minutes, while contributed papers 25 minutes (with Q&A). The time length of presentations was rather short, but either coffee break or lunch (for 1.5 hours) was available for discussions after a session of 3 - 4 presentations.

Conference Proceedings was handed out at the registration desk in the form of digital PDF files stored in a USB memory. Collection of Abstracts was handed as a printed booklet at the registration. I attended at presentations in the three nearby rooms back and forth with the Agenda sheet at hand.

(5) Introductions to Individual Papers (Personal reviews of all the presentations individually)

Here is a list of all the presentations, as categorized in my personal view. All the presentations are to be introduced individually and posted in seven HTML pages according to the categories and in the order listed here.  By clicking te link buttons you can reach the pages and also introductions of individual papers. (At moment, Pages A and B are posted (Mar. 30, 2017). Other pages will be posted later when they are ready.) marks are highly recommended.

I try to understand the papers as much as possible, reading their slides and full texts. Texts of papers are published in the Proceedings (at the Conference to the participants), and presentation files are made availabe later either by the TFC2016 Organizer or by the Authors directly on my request. I am thankful to all the Authors and ETRIA TFC2016 Organizers for their excellent works and for their permission of my writing and posting this Personal Report. My understanding and my introductory description might have various limitations and misunderstandings, I am afraid. If you, Authors and Readers, have any comments and suggestions on my introductions, please let me know.

A. Methodology of TRIZ ( posted on Mar. 30, 2017)

A1. Problem definition and identification of contradictions in the interdisciplinary areas of mechatronic engineering
Didier Casner, Pavel Livotov (Offenburg Univ., Germany), Rémy Houssin, Jean Renaud (INSA Strasbourg, France)

A2. How to Generate Simple Model Solutions Systematically from Function Analysis Diagram
Min-Gyu Lee (Lappeenranta Univ. of Tech., Finland; QM&E Innovation, South Korea)

A3. TRIZ-based approach for process intensification and problem solving in process engineering: concepts and research agenda
Didier Casner, Pavel Livotov, Mas’udah Mas’udah, Patricia Kely da Silva (Offenburg Univ., Germany)

A4. Method of time-dependent TRIZ function ranking
Nikolai Efimov-Soini, Leonid Chechurin, Ivan Renev, Kalle Elfvengren (Lappenranta Univ. of Tech., Finland)

A5. Tech-Finder: a Dynamic Pointer to Effects
Davide Russo (Univ. of Bergamo, Italy) , Tiziano Montecchi (Bigflo srl, Italy), Antonio Caputi (Univ. of Bergamo, Italy)

A6. Statistical use of the TRIZ contradiction matrix, experimentation on a ball bearing technical issue
Elie Aupetitgendre, Laurent Varnoux (SKF France, France), Nicolas Maranzana (Arts et Métiers Paritech, France)

B. Integral Use of TRIZ with Relevant Methods ( posted on Mar. 30, 2017)

B1. Cause-Effect Chains Analysis using Boolean algebra
Jerzy Chrząszcz, Piotr Salata (Warsaw Univ. of Tech., Poland; Pentacomp Systemy Informatyczne S.A., Poland)

B2. Trend of Increased Addressing of Human Senses - Near Field Senses –
Oliver Mayer (GE Global Research, Germany)

B3. Lessons for TRIZ from Design Thinking & Lean 3P
Michal Halas (Grupa ODiTK, Poland)

B4. What a well-trained TRIZ user can learn from other design methodologies: an initial speculation
Leonid Chechurin, Mika Lohtander (Lappeenranta Univ. of Tech., Finland), Yuri Borgianni (Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)

B5. The Application of TRIZ to exclude Product Failures caused by unintended Operation Errors
Juergen Hess (BSH Home Appliances Group, Germany)

B6. A Praxeological Model of Creative Actions in the Field of Mechanical Engineering
Maksymilian Leszek Smolnik (AGH Univ. of Sci. and Tech., Poland)

B7. Can TRIZ functional analysis improve FMEA
Christian Spreafico, Davide Russo (University of Bergamo, Italy)

B8. Effective Design Approach with Inventive Principles to Reputational Damage Risk on the Internet
Manabu Sawaguchi (Waseda Univ., Japan), Satoru Utsugi (NS Solutions, Japan)

B9. Applying TRIZ and Lean Tools for Improving Development Processes. A Case Study from Industry: Improving the Testing Process for SW and HW-related Products
Martin Kiesel (Siemens AG, Germany), Jens Hammer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)

B10. Roadmapping the Disruptive Innovation Technologies Based on CV of Resource
Jianguang Sun, Yu Wang, Lizhen Jia, Runhua Tan (Hebei Univ. of Tech., China)

B11. Towards Experience Capitalization for Inventive Problem Solving
Pei ZHANG (LGeCo (Design Engineering Lab.), France), Cecilia ZANNI-MERK (SDC Team, ICube, France), Denis CAVALLUCCI (INSA Strasbourg, France)

C. Case Studies in Industries ( posted on Apr. 24, 2017)

C1. Heuristic problems in automation and control design: what can be learnt from TRIZ?
Leonid Chechurin (Lappeenranta Univ. of Tech., Finland), Viktor Berdonosov (Komsomolsk-na-Amure State Tech. Univ., Russia), Leonid Yakovis (St. Petersburg State Polytechnical Univ., Russia)

C2. Optimizing motor performance by using TRIZ methodology
Matej Hohnjec, Dušan Gošnik (ZEN d.o.o., Slovenia), David Koblar (Domel d.o.o., Slovenia)

C3. A proposal for automation of conceptual design stage in Architecture-Engineering-Construction (AEC) projects
Ivan A. Renev (Lappeenranta Univ. of Tech., Finland)

C4. TRIZ and innovation of pressing process
Bohuslav Busov (Brno Univ. of Tech., Czech Republic) , Vladimir Dostal (TF, Czech Republic), Milada Bartlova(Brno Univ. of Tech., Czech Republic)

C5. TRIZ and turbojet engine innovation
Bohuslav Busov (Brno Univ. of Tech., Czech Republic), Zdeněk Katolický (Air Division of PBS, Czech Republic), Milada Bartlová (Brno Univ. of Tech., Czech Republic)

C6. Mobile biogas station design – the TRIZ approach
Mariusz Ptak, Sebastian Koziołek, Damian Derlukiewicz, Marek Mysior (Wrocław Univ. of Sci. and Tech., Poland), Mateusz Słupiński (Centre for Systems Solutions, Poland)

C7. Design for change: disaggregation of functions in system architecture by TRIZ-based design
Sebastian Koziolek (Wrocław Univ. of Sci. and Tech., Poland)

C8. TRIZ based problem solving of tile manufacturing system
Sebastian Koziolek (Wrocław Univ. of Sci. and Tech., Poland), Mateusz Słupiński (Centre for Systems Solutions, Poland)

C9. TRIZ-based analysis of the rail industry problem of low adhesion
John Cooke (Cocatalyst Limited, UK)

D.   Promotion of TRIZ in Industries (posted on Jun. 4. 2017)

D1. A long-term strategy to spread TRIZ in SMEs. Analysis of Bergamo’s experience
Davide Russo, Daniele Regazzoni, Caterina Rizzi (University of Bergamo, Italy)

==> Japanese translation (full paper and slides) ; English (slides) (Posted: Feb. 14, 2017)

D2. Combining TRIZ and open innovation, a new promising perspective for enhancing corporate innovation processes
Masih Hanifi (INSA Strasbourg, France), Remy Houssin (Univ. of Strasbourg, France), Denis Cavallucci, Simon Fuhlhaber (INSA Strasbourg, France)

D3. Is Poland an innovative country?
Dorota Chybowska, Leszek Marek Chybowski (Maritime Univ. of Szczecin, Poland)

D4. R&D in Poland – is the country close to a knowledge-driven economy?
Dorota Chybowska, Leszek Chybowski (Maritime Univ. of Szczecin, Poland)

D5. Why TRIZ Popularity is Declining
Sergey Sobolev (Siemens LLC, Russia), Oleg Abramov (Algorithm Ltd., Russia)

E.   Usage of TRIZ in Education and in Academia (posted on Jun. 4, 2017)

E1. A Brief Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (BTIPS)　-　an Approach in Teaching, Learning and Practice
Zbigniew Marian Bzymek (Univ. of Connecticut, USA)

E2. Aspects of teaching TRIZ
Christoph Dobrusskin (Philips Innovation Services, The Netherlands)

E3. Product development using heuristic-systematic approach: a case study
Bartosz Pryda, Marek Mysior (Wroclaw Univ. of Sci. and Tech., Poland)

E4. Development of creative education materials for students at middle and high school using design thinking process with simplified TRIZ
Kyeongwon LEE (Korea Polytechnic Univ., South Korea)

E5. Idea Generation with Substance-Field Analysis: the Influence of Prior Knowledge and Practical Experience
Iouri Belski (RMIT, Australia), Anne Skiadopoulos (Swinburne Univ. of Tech., Australia), Guillermo Aranda-Mena (RMIT, Australia), Gaetano Cascini (Politechnico Milano, Italy), Davide Russo (Univ. of Bergamo, Italy)

F. Patent Studies (posted on Jun. 21, 2017)

F1. Enhancing Patent Portfolio Using TRIZ Workshops
Frank Zeihsel (Synnovating GmbH, Germany), Christian M. Thurnes (Univ. of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Germany), Jan Schulze (Thyssenkrupp Intellectual Property GmbH, Germany)

G. Applications to Soft & Non-technical Areas (Posted on Jun. 21; Jul. 18, 2017)

G1. Opportunities for integrating TRIZ and systematic innovation tools into large scale Agile software development
Teemu Toivonen (Nitor Delta, Finland)

G2. TRIZ potential for IT projects
Monika Woźniak (Univ. of Gdansk, Poland)

G3. Developing Growth Portfolio with TRIZ Structures
Michael Ohler, Philip Samuel, Naresh Shahani, Derek Bennington, Riaan Britts (BMGI, Germany)

G4. Structured activation of vertex entropy (SAVE): another way around creative problem solving for non-technical applications
Stelian Brad (Technical Univ. of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

G5. TRIZ to support creation of innovative shared value business initiatives
Stelian Brad (Technical Univ. of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

G6. Conceptual framework for marketing communication management with a qualitative and system-oriented approach
Joanna Kijewska, Marek Goliński (Poznan Univ. of Tech., Poland)

G7. TRIZ/CrePS approach to the social problems of poverty: 'Liberty vs. Love’ is found the Principal Cntradiction of the Human Culture
Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin Univ., Japan; CrePS Institute, Japan)

==>  English (slides) ; Japanese (Introduction and links to related Nakagawa's papers) (Posted: Feb. 14, 2017)

(6) Miscellaneous