Development of TRIZ based competency test material and its influence on improving problem solving skills

Abstract

Vocational education provides necessary education and skills, which is directed at the mastery of certain expertise. As the learning outcome of this education, the graduates of Politeknik Mekatronika Sanata Dharma have been able to solve engineering problems in terms of maintenance and repair, operation, and assembly of industrial automation machines. For this reason, problem solving skills are important to learn. This paper presents a research on the effect of developing TRIZ-based competency test material on improving problem solving skills. The subjects of this study were 60 students of Politeknik Mekatronika Sanata Dharma. After several TRIZ-based competency tests, the results revealed that the problem solving skills of students on the basis of a systematic approach have increased, while problem solving on the basis of intuition (trial and error) have decreased.

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Development of Morphology Analysis-Based Technology Roadmap Considering Layer Expansion Paths: Application of TRIZ and Text Mining

“…Thus, TRIZ contains a complete innovation system from the preliminary design phase to the conceptual design phase and design embodiment stage [40]. There have been many studies related to the application of the TRIZ innovation system [41,42], its combination with other methods [43][44][45] and improvements in the simplification of the TRIZ system [46][47][48][49][50]. In the previous studies, a strong point is the complexity property of TRIZ resulting from its large variety of techniques, which make the system difficult to understand and apply for ordinary engineers.…”