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Solving Contradictions

Finding and solving contradictions in a problem is another important technique in TRIZ. All inventive problems contains contradictions. Solving a contradiction is not easy as it often leads to another contradiction. But they can be easily addressed by applying TRIZ Inventive Principles. Let's see what a contradiction is.

What is a contradiction
Contradictions are conflicting situations inside a system which cause problems. These conficts or contradictions inside a system which restricts the performance of a system. For example, "Increasing speed of a motor increases heat. A high level of heat damages the coil of the motor. So we need speed and not the heat." In this example, speed and heat are two parameters which conflicts each other. Speed is desirable but heat undesirable.

The contradictions may be Physical or Technical. ("Physical" and "Technical" are just the names. Otherwise "Physcial" contradictions are also equally technical as "Technical" contradictions.) Physical contradictions create a conflit with the same parameter. For example "I must attend this important meeting in office. But I should not attend the meeting as I would miss my daughter's birthday party." Technical Contradictions or Ordinary Contradictions create conflict with two different parameters, that means improving one parameter of the system causes deterioration of the other parameter (as heat and speed in the above example).

How to solve a contradiction
A tradictional way to address the contradictions is either by compromising or by trial and error. Although they reduce the intensity of the problem, they don't really solve the problem. For example "If the edge of the razor blade is very sharp, the blade will cut the skin. If not very sharp, it cannot do a closer shave". A traditional compromise is to make the blade medium sharp, so that it will shave the beards (although not very well) but not cut the skin (although sometimes may).

A TRIZ way of solving contradictions is through applying Inventive Principles. A physical contradiction is normally managed by separation in Time, Separation in Space, System Transformation and Phase trasition. For example, If I have to attend both the meeting in office and birthday party at hotel, I can schedule my meeting first and party afterwards (separation in time).

A Technical contradiction is addressed by applying one or more of the 40 Inventive principles as found appropriate. All principles are not appropriate for each contradiction. Generally 1 to 5 principles are found appropriate for solving any specific contradiction. The contradiction matrix shows us which principles are appropriate for solving which contradiction.

39 Contradiction Parameters

Altshuller found that there are 39 Standard Parameters which might conflict to each other in a system. These 39 parameters can create 1521 (39 x 39) possible conflicts. Each of these conflicts is addressed by different Inventive Principles. Please click here to see the list of all 39 Contradiction Parameters.

The Contradiction Matrix

As we saw above there are 39 contradiction parameters which can conflicts to each other. "Weight of an object" can conflict with "Speed of the object", "Speed of the object" can conflict with "Reliability" and so on. Thus all 39 parameters can create a total of (39 x 39 =) 1531 possible conflicts.

As the number of these conflicts are so many, the TRIZ researchers have made a matrix of these parameters keeping the parameters in both "x" and "y" axis. Each cell in the Matrix represent a particular type of conflict which is addressed by specific inventive principles. Please click here to view the Contradiction Matrix.

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