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approach. It was determined that the most efficient innovative solutions grow up
from contradictions. TRIZ Matrix operates with the contradictions principles.
This is designed on the basis of 39 factors organized on rows and columns,
represented in the Fig. 4, and at intersection between rows and columns can be
identified the contradictions. For each contradiction it is presented a set of
principles, from a total of 40, in order to solve it. If the problem is structured on
the contradictions principle, the TRIZ matrix offers sets of innovative
principles. The essential contribution of the user’s matrix is to match the
standard principles to that innovative problem [10].
Fig. 4 – Extract from Contradiction Matrix [7].
• Pillar 2: Ideality – when TRIZ founder studied the patents database, he
discovered that the systems always tend to evolve towards increasing “ideality”.
The ideality part of TRIZ encourages problem solvers to break out of the
traditional “start from the current situation” type of thinking, and start instead
from what is described as the Ideal Final Result (IFR). The simple definition of
IFR is that the solution contains all of the benefits and none of the costs or
“harms” (environmental impact, adverse side-effects, etc) [7].
• Pillar 3: Functionality – this concept is developed by TRIZ through the
fact that it integrates knowledge from physics, chemistry, mathematics,
engineering, management and political science. It is successful largely because
that knowledge is in a form accessible to all users. In this way, the functionality
becomes the connection that makes possible sheering of knowledge between
widely differing industries [11].
• Pillar 4: Use of resources – in TRIZ terms relates to the unprecedented
emphasis placed on the maximization of use everything contained within a