An innovative bamboo film inspired by workout and Triz

Abstract

Numerous technological problems that arise during the development of innovative products must be overcome in a short period of time. The lack of methods of systematically inventive problem-solving may lead to repeated failures during innovation processes. Therefore, this study combined the workout and the Theory of Inventive Problem-Solving (TRIZ) approaches to resolve technological inventive problems encountered during the development of a novel bamboo-skin film applicable to in-mold injection molding. The goal of this study was to resolve three technological innovation problems using the following methods: (a) the restrictive brainstorming approach and a 39 × 39 contradiction matrix to resolve problems concerning the poor adhesion between bamboo-skin films and plastics; (b) the restrictive brainstorming approach and the 40 principles of invention (also referred to as 40 principles of TRIZ or 40 innovative principles) to overcome the problem regarding bamboo-skin breakage; and (c) the non-restrictive brainstorming approach to reduce the time required for post-processing. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is able to solve the innovative problems. The exploited approach concerning bamboo is a valuable outcome and reference for further advanced implementations in electrical industry and others.