A triz-based creativity tool for food processing equipment design

Totobesola-Barbier Mireille, Marouzé Claude, Giroux François. 2002. A triz-based creativity tool for food processing equipment design. TRIZ Journal (10)

Résumé : This article presents the customizing of TRIZ concepts for the development of a methodology to systematically improve creativity for the search for appropriate engineering principles for food equipment in the context of developing countries. Such methodology is necessary to help generate equipment that are adapted to the socio-economic and technical environment, as often demanded in these countries. The bases of this specific methodology are the TRIZ ideas of using predefined standard or general problems and solutions coupled with the creation and utilization of a structured capitalization of knowledge. They facilitate and lead the search towards a wider panel of potential solutions by nurturing creativity and favoring the transfer, modifications and/or combination of pertinent existing solutions (engineering principles). This tool meets the methodological needs of designers working in a context characterized by scarce investment, lack of knowledge, insufficient scientific information and referential. In this methodology, the standard problem is based on the main function of the equipment to be designed and the specification of the products to be processed. A previous inventory, analysis and classification of existing unit operations in the food industries permitted the predetermination of the categories of main functions and the potential associated principles involved in agro-food processing. The identification of the corresponding standard solutions is facilitated by the use of the same data (function/product specification) in a database purposely created on these principle. This database is a structured referential that orientates and facilitates the search. It also contains additional information on existing applications of the principles. Two examples of application of this methodology are given. This method has been developed in a particular context but it can be used also by SMEs in industrial countries, in order to re-organize TRIZ databases in relation with specific industrial sector.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : conception, matériel, méthode, pays en développement, technologie alimentaire, innovation, analyse de système, ingénierie

Classification Agris : N20 - Machines et matériels agricoles
U30 - Méthodes de recherche

Auteurs et affiliations

• Totobesola-Barbier Mireille, CIRAD-AMIS-AGROALIMENTAIRE (FRA)
• Marouzé Claude, CIRAD-AMIS-AGROALIMENTAIRE (FRA)
• Giroux François, CIRAD-AMIS-AGROALIMENTAIRE (FRA)

Source : Cirad - Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/515395/)

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