Some Limitations of TRIZ Tools and Possible Ways of Improvement

Abstract

The Ideation/TRIZ Methodology has grown into the most powerful engineering problem solving methodology. However, experienced users may discover some limitations of TRIZ tolls, such as empty cells in the Contradiction Matrix, missing physical effects in the library of physical effects. In this paper possible ways of improvement of the Contradiction Matrix as well as special physical effects to complement the list of physical effects and phenomena are discussed.