Consulting Services

Training

• Conduct lectures available in PRIZ Guru Library. A typical lecture duration is about 1.5 hour. Bellow a list of the available lectures
• Prepare and conduct a course upon request in the field of our expertise

Areas of expertise

• Innovation and problem solving
• Chemical and metallurgical processes including electronic materials and microchip manufacturing
• Tantalum capacitors production
• Tantalum scrap recycling
• Rare refractory metals chemistry and technology
• Tantalum and Niobium chemistry, technology, metallurgy & applications

List of the available lectures

Intro to problem-solving and PRIZ Guru innovation platform overview

• About technical systems evolution
• Where do problems come from?
• Innovation is solving a problem
• About problem solving tools
• PRIZ Innovation platform overview

Ranking, tasks priority management, and decision making

• About decision making
• What is a task?
• Urgency – Importance Matrix principles
• Round Robing Ranking method
• Choosing and decision management
• Priority management with PRIZ Innovation platform

How to state the right problem to solve

• Where problems come from
• Psychological inertia
• Failure versus problem
• Problem statement with PRIZ Innovation platform

9 Windows thinking in space and in time

• Main principles and empower of 9 windows
• How it operates
• Examples
• 9 windows thinking with PRIZ Innovation Platform

Root cause analysis with PRIZ Innovation Platform

• What root cause is
• Two approaches: Fundamental Reason of the Problem and Auxiliary Reason of the problem – fundamental versus practical approach
• Cause and effect chain analysis
• Examples of root cause search and finding solutions
• Root cause analysis with PRIZ Innovation Platform

Problem solving with 40 principles at PRIZ Innovation Platform

• Fundamentals of the 40 inventive principles method
• Engineering contradictions
• What does it mean to solve a problem
• How to use 40 principles
• Examples
• 40 inventive principles in PRIZ Innovation Platform

Define a customer needs with PRIZ Innovation Platform

• What does a customer need?
• Take a customer functions to satisfy the customer
• Action Preventing Action (APA) principles
• How to search for customer needs with PRIZ Innovation Platform

Risk assessment and risk management (RARM)

• Examples
• Risk assessment using Cassandra approach
• Failure model creation
• Risk management – mitigation and failure prevention
• How to use PRIZ Innovation Platform for RARM

Resource Analysis for engineering systems failures or improvements modeling

• Fundamentals of the Resources Analysis (RA) method
• How to think and create models of failure or improvements
• How to use PRIZ Innovation Platform for RA

Innovation project management and tracking with PRIZ Innovation Platform

• Regular project versus an innovation project
• Why creative thinking tools are needed
• How to use PRIZ platform for Innovation Project management

Intro to functional language and functional analysis

• What is a function? How to designate a function.
• What is a product of an engineering system?
• Functional language examples
• Functional models
• How to use PRIZ Innovation Platform for functional analysis

Hi-tech development and problem solving challenges

• Moore’s law impact on all industries
• Developing new products and new processes requests to predict the future and work fast
• Usage of creative thinking tools helps to follow Moore’s law trend

Perception mapping (PMap)- blockers identification

• The background and the purpose of the Perception Mapping technique
• How is it working?
• Examples of PMap usage and results
• Online case study

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