4. Original Problem
Cause & Effect
Engineering
Contradiction
Contradiction
Matrix
Specific
Inventive
Principle
5. Demand > Capacity
Insufficient
employees
HR did not
recruit
employees
Limited cost
Bad
production
flow
High
rework
rate
Supplier
late
incoming
goods
inefficientAttitude
Laziness
Unskilled
workers
Lack of
experience
Bad layout &
infrastructure
Bad
production
management
6. Engineering Contradiction
If the production management is improved,
then the problem of demand exceeds capacity
will be solved, but the complexity of device will
be changed.
7. Improving Parameter Worsening Parameter
#26 Quantity of Substance #36 Device Complexity
#39 Productivity
No. Inventive Principle
#3 Local Quality
#10 Preliminary action (Prior action – “Do it in advanced”)
#12 Equipotentiality (Remove tension)
#13 The other way round
#17 Another dimension
#24 Intermediary
#27 Cheap short-living objects (Cheap disposables)
#28 Mechanics substitution