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TRIZ. How to solve problems that don't exist yet

At first glance, the situation seems hopeless. Nothing can be changed - how to move to a new system?! And yet there is a way out! The new system is hiding... inside the old one. We look at the spring as a "piece of iron", but inside this "piece of iron" there is a whole world of particles, a huge system that exists (it exists!) And which seems to be non-existent (we don't use it!). We magnetize the spring so that there is a magnetic pole of the same name above each coil. Charges of the same name repel, therefore, more energy is required to compress the spring. The problem is solved, although outwardly the spring has not changed at all: we have not added anything, we have not crushed it.

So, there are two ways of developing systems that seem to have exhausted all the possibilities of development. The first way is to combine with other systems (or split into parts and "recombine" these parts). The second way is the transition from the macro level to the micro level, when the inner world of systems is involved "into the game", so to speak: particles, molecules, atoms...

I will now give the formula of one invention. It's about a car you don't know. But the essence of the invention will be clear. So, copyright certificate No. 489 662: "A device for applying polymer powders, containing a chamber and an electrode, characterized in that, in order to improve the quality of the applied coating, the electrode is equipped with a means of movement made in the form of micrometer screws." The electrode (rod) was fixedly connected to the chamber. The inventor proposed to make the electrode moving. This is the transition of the technical system from the second floor to the third, you are already familiar with such transitions.

Knowing the laws of development of technical systems, we can predict the further development of this system, that is, predict the emergence of new inventions. The system has to move on to the fourth stage - to become not just regulated, but self-regulating. The electrode will move by itself, depending on the changing working conditions. And then the system will move from the macro level to the micro level: instead of screws, thermal expansion, reverse piezoelectric effect or magnetostriction will be used to move the electrode.

Note that we are considering the answer to problems that have not yet arisen! Years will pass, it will be necessary to increase the accuracy of the operation of the installation, and only then the tasks that we have already solved will appear.

When working by trial and error, the answer to the problem usually appears much later than the problem itself. The theory of invention fundamentally changes the situation: we understand the logic of the development of technical systems and can anticipate the emergence of new problems, knowing in advance how they will need to be solved.

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