Innovation on Demand

Appendix 3: Standard Approaches to Solving Inventive Problems

Overview

There are three classes of Standards. [1]

  • Standards on system modification (construction and evolution of sufields).

  • Standards on system detection and measuring.

  • Standards on application of the Standards.

The Standards are organized in a set built according to the logic of evolution of sufields: simple sufields ? complex sufields ? intensified sufields. Sufields at any of these stages can migrate either to a higher-level system (i.e., they become bi- or poly-sufields) or to a micro-level (i.e., a whole system or its part is replaced with a pair field substance capable of performing the required action).

[1] The following Standards are adapted from (Altshuller, 1988a).

Algorithm for Using the Standards

A3.1 Class 1: synthesis of sufields

A3.1.1 Group 1.1: improvement and introduction of useful actions

Standard 1.1.1

To enhance the effectiveness and controllability of an incomplete sufield, it must be completed by introducing the missing elements (Fig. A3.1).


Fig. A3.1

Example: Problem 3.2.

Standard 1.1.2

If there is a sufield that is difficult to change as required, and there are no limitations on introduction of additives into the given substances, the problem can be solved by a permanent or temporary transition to an internal compound sufield (Fig. A3.2).


Fig. A3.2

Here, S 1 object; S 2 tool; S 3 additive; parenthesis indicate an internal compound connection (an external compound connection does not have brackets).

Example: To enhance heat- and mass-transfer with high-viscosity liquids, they are...

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