Knowledge Ladder for Using TRIZ in New Product Development in the Smart Age
Introduction
The development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has substantively changed environment for product development accompanied by the explosion of data and knowledge in the smart age. This book aims at proposing and elaborating a new knowledge-based methodology to strength TRIZ industrial applications especially in the domain of new product development (NPD) to face
up these new changes. The whole book mainly includes three sections: Section 1 mainly introduce the backgrounds and theoretical foundations, the section 2 expounds main sections of the proposed method with six different chapters, section 3 presents applications of proposed method in two specific exemplar cases of product development to address its practical feasibility.
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Section 1: Backgrounds and Theoretical foundations
Chapter 1: Introduction: Changes for NPD brought by the smart age
1.1 Features of the smart age
1.2 Challenges and opportunities for NPD in the smart age
1.3 Summary
Chapter 2: TRIZ and its methodology
2.1 Classical TRIZ
2.2 From the classical TRIZ to "X" TRIZ
2.3 Physiological pillars of TRIZ methodologies
2.4 Reference
Chapter 3: Using TRIZ in NPD
3.1 Integration of TRIZ and QFD
3.2 Integration of TRIZ and six sigma
3.3 Integration of TRIZ and systematic engineering design process
3.4 Summary
3.5 Reference
Section2: Methodology
Chapter 4: Knowledge innovative potential: A thermometer for product innovation 35
4.1 Terminology of KIP
4.2 Calculating algorithm for KIP
4.3 Computer-aided tools for KIP calculation
4.4 Using KIP for monitoring product innovation
4.5 Implementation of the KIP in product development
4.6 Summary
4.7 References
Chapter 5: Hearing voice of customers in the smart age
5.1 Research background
5.2 Theocratical foundations of this study
5.3 The method to collect customers’ requirements
5.4 Method for ranking importance of customer requirements
5.5 Transformation from customers’ voices into design specifications
5.6 Exemplar study
5.7 Summary
5.8 Reference
Chapter 6: Function architecture: A bridge to integrate multidisciplinary knowledge
6.1 Theoretical foundations
6.2 Basic building blocks for the proposed function modelling method
6.3 A new ontological function modelling
6.4 Function modelling strategies and modelling process
6.5 Case study
6.6 The application of the proposed modelling method for function combination
6.7 Reference
Chapter 7: Knowledge cluster: ideal prototypes for NPD
7.1 Theoretical foundations
7.2 Knowledge cluster metrics and rating algorithm
7.3 Construction of Knowledge clusters
7.4 Knowledge clustering
7.5 Reference
Chapter 8: Knowledge fusion: construction of schema for NPD
8.1 Knowledge fusions strategies in NPD
8.2 Drivers of knowledge fusion
8.3 Methods to remove conflicts in knowledge fusion
8.4 Routers of knowledge fusions
Chapter 9: Knowledge ladder: a new way to build NPD organization
9.1 Key roles in NPD organization
9.2 TRIZ knowledge to support roles in NPD
9.3 A knowledge ladder for improving innovative capabilities in NPD roles
9.4 A growing channel for innovative personnel in NPD organizations
Section 3: Case study
Chapter 10: Implementations of the proposed method in NPD
10.1 Case1: A refine design of the button battery buckling machinery
10.2 Case 2: A new protective shell for protecting the composite insulator from bird's pecking
10.3 Case 3: A smart product system for collecting natural recourse inspired by biological prototypes
Chapter 11: Training model for uplifting innovative performance of research organization
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The proposed training models
11.3 Validation of the proposed training approach
11.4 Summary of main findings
Author(s) Information
Wei LIU, born in February 1987 in Handan City, Hebei Province in China, currently is a lecturer from Tianjin University of Commerce, a joint researcher from the National Technology Innovation Method and Implementation Tool Engineering Technology Research Center of China and a Vebelo fellow in the Energy materials and technology. He received his doctoral degree in the domain of Mechanical Engineering from Hebei University of Technology in 2019 and finished his postdoc research in the field of the Management of Business in 2022. His research interests mainly include technological innovation, TRIZ/C-TRIZ, biologically inspired design, knowledge management. Presided over and participated in more than ten national and provincial research projects, he has published more than 30 research papers indexed by the SCI/SSCI and the EI/ Scopus, applied and authorized 13 invention patents. Moreover, as a TRIZ researcher and promoter, he also has rich experience of working as an innovation advisor for eight manufacturing enterprises.
