Design of Intelligent Household Food Waste Product Based on AHP-TRIZ Method

Abstract

Based on the situation that kitchen garbage resources are seriously wasted, it’s necessary to explore intelligent ways for residents to utilize such food waste resources at home. This paper aims to propose a household food waste recycling product based on an integrated AHP-TRIZ research method. Firstly, a total of 5 criteria and 22 sub-criteria are obtained and compared by using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method in order to determine the degree of importance of user requirements. Secondly, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) is used to find optimal solutions for the contradictions that are concluded by analyzing user demand. By combining these two methods, intelligent techniques are used for innovative design, which include: a semi-automated recycling product and also a mobile application to enable “smart kitchen” and support household resource utilization.