‘Make in India’ is a good start for providing employment to a large youth population. But value and wealth creation for organisations and people can happen only with significant bandwidth for innovation. This require a strong foundation in the respective domains and powerful tools for innovation. Such competencies with few individual cannot make the required impact in a reasonable time in a fast changing world.
The concept of ‘Communities of Practice(CoP)’ is emerging as a powerful mechanism to develop critical mass of practitioners in the domains and tools of strategic priority who can drive innovation in the organisations. CoPs are a groups informally bound together by shared expertise and passion. They foster new approaches to problems, continue to learn,  share this knowledge and experiences. They help organisations to drive strategy, innovation, robust way of solving problems quickly, transfer best practices
This session will focus on the concept of CoP, process of developing and sustaining CoPs and impact they can make with case studies based on the experiments in the last six years.

This talk focuses on inventions for digital innovations and provides details on the thought process for securing patents for software and machine learning applications. The speaker will demonstrate one such innovation where multiple patents were granted for increased customer impact. The speaker will also talk about how to identify new problems through hybridization techniques that will further boost innovations and IP. Additionally, some case studies on the topic of innovations in the field of Optimization will be presented.

Implementing TRIZ tools to come up with breakthrough ideas is just one part of the product design process. To complete a puzzle, all the pieces need to come together rightly. Similarly, to achieve truly radical innovation all the steps of the product design process should be done rightly. In this talk, the speakers will take us through how the product design process should be to achieve breakthrough innovation.

TRIZ tools are extremely easy to learn & understand. But a big challenge is faced by all the new TRIZ practitioners. While resolving contradictions, they follow the method & use the matrix to know which principles are to be used. But they do not know how the principles are to be applied to generate ideas. In this talk, the speakers would be presenting a more intuitive method of applying the principles & generating ideas faster.

Trollies are used for various applications in a manufacturing plant. Material Handling trollies are supposed to be pushed all the time. However, operators tend to pull trollies for convenience. Trolley pulling is risky behaviour which may lead to incident like feet getting struck between trolley and floor resulting in injury. This phenomenon becomes even more dangerous in case of trolley handling on slopes as force exerted by the parts it carries will act  in the direction of pull. Several training and OJT’s carried out but there is no significant improvement recorded, because of  human behaviour tendency is always try to  complete the work by using less energy. In the present work we are trying to address this issue using TRIZ principles.

Electrification of vehicles have rapidly transformed the landscape of the automotive industry. Electrification of off-road vehicles such as tractors are attractive as they move towards higher fuel efficiency and near-zero tailpipe emission. However, electrification of off-road vehicles bring unique challenges due to the harsh environment in which they operate. Particularly in the wetland applications, there is a high chance of damage to electric components such as battery, motor, controllers, on-board chargers due to water inundation. In our case study, we have applied TRIZ methodology to visualize the IFR for an electric tractor and systematically identify technical and physical contradictions. We applied TRIZ inventive principles to create innovative solutions and optimize the design of electric tractor for wet land applications.

One of the popular tools that engineers, and scientists often use is the Altshuler matrix. As #TRIZ methodology was developed 80 years ago, some of the engineering parameters are not applicable and some of the principles need to be related in the right evolution.

Till a decade ago, software was outsourced, and design was inhouse. Times changed, software is the new core, part of the strategy and design could be outsourced. Every product that is being developed now has a software and if software exists, testing is required.

Indian GDP gains hugely from software development and Engineering Services. In our pursuit to groom a million inventors and innovators in India, we are expanding from our core hardware to Software.

In this case study TitoKishan VEMURI would present how to see the matrix and relate principles from the software context with an example of software testing. TRIZ don’t talk about code, rather guides how to solve a problem, trigger new directions of thinking to solve software problems.