Consulting Services
Professional Services
- Problem solving (root cause analysis, failure models)
- Innovation projects management
- Process and product improvement
- Process and product cost reduction
- Process development
Coaching & Facilitation
- Give specific training and on-the-job advice for project-related activities to one person or a small group.
- Participate in a working group activity to promote the particular project success
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