Green Product Design Based on the BioTRIZ Multi-Contradiction Resolution Method

Abstract

The impacts on the environment of many commercial products have not been fully considered in past years. For the sustainable development of Earth’s resources, future product design should move towards not only innovation, but also fundamentally in the green direction. Currently, the BioTRIZ method may provide a satisfactory solution for a single contradiction of green product design. However, if there are multiple contradictions existing due to multiple operational fields, difficulty in implementing design aspects may be posed. For this reason, this paper develops a BioTRIZ multi-contradiction resolution method targeting a green product design, which can find the crucial contradictions and thus achieve the necessary invention principles (IP). By summarizing the green factors and further dividing operational fields, the deduced matrix table becomes highly effective in the design. Accordingly, designers can be assisted to quickly find the operational fields under multiple contradictions. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified using a product example of a window-cleaning robot design.

Biological Prototype Acquisition Based on Biological Coupling in Bionic Design

“…Salmaan et al [ 30 ] used BioTRIZ to design a roof imitating a honeycomb structure to reduce thermal radiation. Regarding other applications of BioTRIZ, Bai et al [ 16 ] combined BioTRIZ with green factors to achieve an innovative design. In the present work, a BioTRIZ-driven approach to finding biological prototypes is applied to rapidly obtain a large number of biological prototypes that can solve design problems.…”

“…Liu et al [ 15 ] extracted and combined the parts of the multibiological effect model that complete the main functions to obtain technical solutions that meet the design requirements. Bai et al [ 16 ] used TRIZ in the field of bionics (BioTRIZ) to obtain multiple pairs of contradictions, and extracted the main contradictions for green bionic design. The determination of how to retrieve biological prototypes has a profound theoretical research basis, but the screening and matching process of biological prototypes primarily depends on the subjective judgment of designers, and is too dependent on the degree of knowledge in related fields.…”

Green Product Quality Supervision Strategy in Online Shopping With Consumer Evaluation and Complaint

“…In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the term of green was created in the marketing field (Wang et al, 2020). With the progress of society, balancing the relationship between economic development and environmental protection has become a hot topic (Bai et al, 2020). Correspondingly, green and sustainability are considered to be particularly common in production, consumption, and other fields.…”

A smart knowledge deployment method for the conceptual design of low-carbon products

“…This method can be used to modularize products based on given green constraints. Bai et al (2020) developed a BioTRIZ multi-contradiction resolution method targeting a conceptual design, finding the crucial contradictions and achieving the necessary inventive principles. Ren et al (2017) provided a novel model for accelerating the preliminary lowcarbon design by integrating the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) and extension methods.…”