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

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