Bachler_TRIZ_Biomimetics

TRIZ & Biomimetics Minding Ethics & Sustainability when Creating Innovations Austrian TRIZ Conference | Mi, 18.11.2009

About Elke Barbara Bachler (EBB)
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W iderspruch (Contradiction)
E volution
R esources
F unction
T actic
EBB
Chemical Engineer
Mother
WebDesigner
Innovation Manager
Devil‘s Advocate
BAC Theses
The Evolution of Innovation
The Innovative Mind
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Innovation in Nature & in Business
Business & Technology
Idea (creativity, constraints, memetics) + Potential & Demand (resources, technology, market) = Innovation aka new & economically successful idea
Nature
Reproduction is a faulty copying process (genetics) + Natural Selection (fit = perfectly adapted) = Innovation aka new & viable species

Differences & Similarities
TRIZ (TIPS)
Algorithm Abstraction Analogy
Inventions / Patents
Ideality
Contradiction
Resources
Function
Systematic
Biomimetics
Algorithm Abstraction Analogy
Nature / Open Source
Fitness
Try & Error
Resources
Function & Form
Systemic

Ideality & Fitness Ideality in nature  a matter of fitness

Ideality Prognosis vs. Adaptive Fitness Biological examples support TRIZ Trends & Principles (surface segmentation, asymmetry, volumetric geometry et al.) © whalepower.com © whalepower.com © Barbara Thomas | pixelio.de

Ideality Prognosis vs. Adaptive Fitness TRIZ Trend volumetric segmentation  high rigidity & low weight. This is important for birds, for big mammals like horses the hollow bone is still fit. Both bone types offer/use active elements. © Dorling Kindersley Verlag © Alulight ® Solid Hollow Multi Porous Active

Ideality Prognosis vs. Adaptive Fitness
There are many examples for TRIZ Trends & Principles to be found in nature.
Proposal  TRIZ Trends don‘t have to be contemplated merely in an unidirectional-progressive way if it‘s about fitness.
There is no real IFR (Ideal Final Result) in nature. The ability to adept ensures survival in a changing system.
Proposal  Define an IFR consciously for different systems (open innovation approach).

Try & Error … contradictory to effectiveness and efficiency?

Try & Error as Systematical Method
How to optimize the degree of efficiency when mathematical calculations don‘t work …
Still fascinating: The two-phase-supersonic-injector by Hans-Paul Schwefel in 1968
Recombination of slices  mutation & selection  optimal degree of efficency
Source: „Das grosse Buch der Bionik“ by Werner Nachtigall and Kurt G. Bluechel

Try & Error … time is most significant.
The way we learn is based on Try & Error. It‘s intrinsic. Therefore it shouldn‘t be regarded as maleficent, but be allowed within certain terms.
Try & Error as a method needs systematic proceeding.
It‘s legitimate to use serendipity!
IT-supported simulations allow to use Try & Error within an acceptable time frame.
Proposal  Use TRIZ in combination with simulations and scenario techniques.

Resources … identification and vigilant usage.

Principle 13 – The Other Way Round © Ina Fink | pixelio.de © biopowersystems.com One of the latest biomimetical projects and how TRIZ could have supported the basic idea: In nature the fin is used actively to move forward. The fin bioSTREAM uses the current to move the fin against the torque of a generator, producing energy. bioSTREAM by BioPower Systems Pilot project Australia 2010

Principle 15 – Dynamization © Thomas Max Müller | pixelio.de © biopowersystems.com A similar approach: Plants “go with the flow“ … and that‘s what bioWAVE is mimicking, generating energy by doing so. If the waves are too strong, bioWAVE will lay down completely. That way a light-weight construction suffices. bioWAVE by BioPower Systems

Sustainable Usage of Resources
TRIZ supports and fosters thinking in resources. Nature shows examples for vigilant and for predacious usage of resources … as well as the according results.
Exhaustion of resources  profit maximisation  cancer-like growth  deadly. Vigilant usage of resources  profit optimization  ability to adept & fitness  sustainable.
Nature isn‘t good or bad. Nature shows course of action and results.

Ethics & Sustainability © Siegried Bellach | pixelio.de © Thomas Werner | pixelio.de Ask yourself: What do you prefer? As a company, as a customer? Clear-Cut or Win-Win?

Ethics & Sustainability & Resources
Nature shows course of action and the according results. We might learn a lot by watching.
Proposal  Combine the vigilant resource approach of nature with TRIZ tools in order to generate sustainable and life-affirmative (aka ethical correct) innovations.

Function & Form … what is good design?

Nature offers aesthetics. © Elke Barbara Bachler | pixelio.de

Not always ;) © Uwe Kunze | pixelio.de

10 Design Principles by Rams
Good design is innovative
Good design makes a product useful
Good design is aesthetic
Good design helps us to understand a product
Good design is unobtrusive
Good design is honest
Good design is durable
Good design is consequent to the last detail
Good design is concerned with the environment
Good design is as little design as possible
Dieter Rams, German Industrial Designer, Braun
http://designapplause.com/2009/dieter-rams-10-design-principles/6791/

10 Biological Design Principles by Nachtigall
Integrated instead of additive construction
Optimization on the whole instead of maximization of details
Multifunctionality instead of monofunctionality
Environmental fine-tuning
Economisation instead of wastefulness
Direct and indirect usage of solar energy
Fine-tuning of durability
Recycling instead of accumulation of waste
Linking-up instead of linearity
Try & Error processes
Werner Nachtigall, German Biomimetic
Source: „Das grosse Buch der Bionik“ by Werner Nachtigall and Kurt G. Bluechel

Tip: Database asknature.org

Tip: Database function.creax.com

Design Thinking
Nature offers not only knowledge in terms of function, but also in terms of form and aesthetics.
Mind: There are no user manuals necessary in nature!
Proposal  Let “natural“ design thinking be part of your TRIZ applications.

Systematical & systemic … is there a difference?

TRIZ Algorithm & 9 Windows Systematic proceeding (abstraction & knowledge) Systemic contemplation (including prognosis)

Tip: Chaotic, ordered & complex systems http://cognitive-edge.com/video-childrens-party.php

8 Bio-Cybernetic Principles by Vester
Negative feedback has to dominate positive feedback
System functions have to be independent from quantitative growth
Systems have to be based on function, not on products
Usage of given forces (Jiu-Jitsu) instead of combat
Multi-usage of products, functions and organisational structures
Recycling – Usage of circular flows *
Symbiosis – Usage of differences **
Biological design of products, functions and organisational structures by feedback-planning
* Compare to Cradle 2 Cradle approach (not only material, but also function is sustained) * * Synergy means the usage of similarities

Comparation of Systemic Tactics
Qualitative growth
Systems gain stability by negative feedback (compare HIV negativ)
KISS Keep it Smart & Simple
Synergy & Symbiosis Economisation
ESS Be Nice Twice
USP & Niche Thyself!
Quantitative growth
Systems tilt because of positive feedback (compare HIV positiv)
MISS Make it Simple & Stupid
Competition & Cannibalism Loss of energy
Game Theory Perma-Defector
Vendor‘s Tray & Dot-Com

Win-Win Situations in Technology? Triggering your mind … Do you know examples for technical symbiosis? Principle 34? ( Discarding and recovering ) Principle 40? (Composite material) © Siegfried Bellach | pixelio.de

Conclusio Interface TRIZ–Biomimetics–Sustainability–Ethics?

Conclusio
TRIZ
Additional usage of “natural“ knowledge effects.
Sustainability
Nature as measure for good (process) design.
Ethics
Natur as mentor for life-affirmative technologies and proceedings.

Recommendations
Biomimicry – Innovation Inspired by Nature von Janine M. Benyus
Die Kunst vernetzt zu denken Ideen und Werkzeuge für einen neuen Umgang mit Komplexität von Frederic Vester
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century von Alex Steffen

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