Meta-framework for semantic TRIZ

Abstract

In the manufacturing industry, SCM (Supply Chain Management) is playing an important role which gives profit to enterprise. Extracting innovative design considerations for a product from the information infrastructure requires large knowledge base and solutions to technical and physical contradictions. Construction of information infrastructure with the integration of four designs attributes: component cost, quality, function and technology, innovation can be enhanced. Information which is useful to improve the existing products and development of a new product can be acquired from the database and from the ontology. The TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) supports designers for innovative product design by searching from a knowledge base. The existing TRIZ ontology support innovative design of a product. But it is considering about a specific product (flashlight) for TRIZ ontology. Our final goal is to construct meta-TRIZ ontology that can be applied to multiple products. To achieve this goal, we try to apply the semantic TRIZ to another product; multifunction fan (Smart Fan), as an interim stage towards meta-ontology. This may open up new possibilities to innovative product designs with multifunction.