2-Day Course for Research Scholars 

“Innovation and Optimization using TRIZ and Taguchi Methods”

by

Dr. Prakash R. Apte, TIFR, Mumbai

Abstract :

A Ph.D. (in Experimental Sciences and Engineering) ought to address a 'difficult problem' and offer 'new/novel' solutions to the same. The measurements must be repeatable so that controlled experiments give clear results that support a new/novel prediction based on your new/proposed model/analysis. 

I have put together a tandem of techniques called "TRIZ-Inventive Problem Solving" and "Taguchi Method" to improve the chances of getting "novel results to difficult problems". These 2 techniques are,

(1)TRIZ: to find/define the "difficult problem" and propose several inventive solution concepts 

(2)TAGUCHI Method: to experimentally optimize one of the solution concepts, by working on the "existing" experimental setup/measurement system to get the "best" results 

What does the 2-day course offer? 

This course introduces all the main TRIZ tools so that you can first identify the inventive problem and then find several innovative/inventive solutions for the same. One of the inventive solution concepts is chosen for implementation.

The course also teaches "Taguchi method", which is aimed at optimizing a process through experimentation over a range of process control parameter settings. It determines the 'best' settings of parameters that will make the process 'robust' in spite of unavoidable variations in control parameters and noise.

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for more links click here http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~apte/TrizTagPhD.htm

for more links click here http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~apte/CV_PRA_TRIZ_TAGUCHI_2DAY.htm