Systematic Innovation: A successful case to create innovative idea for power transformer overhaul

摘要

A lot of people think innovative ideas are random and have to come from genius or otherwise ‘trial and error’. There is also a myth that Asian people are strong in ‘copying’ but not ‘creating’. Systematic Innovation is a structured way of creating innovative ideas to solve engineering, service and management problems. It is a forced thinking method to create ideas in a fast and directed way. It has different tools which could allow ‘non-genius’ people to develop ideas for product development, process development, etc. The tools are not just theories, they were developed based on deep analysis of many past patents around the world. The author will demonstrate how to use the Contradiction tool of Systematic Innovation to create ideas for a power plant transformer overhaul problem.