Timeline of the Development of TRIZ and Genrich Altshuller

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By Vladimir Petrov

Extracted from a presentation to the Israel TRIZ Association by Vladimir Petrov in honor of World TRIZ Day, October 15, 2008.

Genrich Saulovich Altshuller was born October 15, 1926 in Tashkent, and died September 24, 1998 in Petrozavodsk.

The author has assembled a timeline of the major events of the development of TRIZ to celebrate World TRIZ Day and Altshuller's contributions. 

Year	Event
1946	• Statement and analysis of a problem by Altshuller and R.B. Shapiro • The basic postulates of TRIZ are formulated: all technical system develop according to objective and knowable laws, and inventive problems can be classified and solved methodically • Creative problem solving requires overcoming a conflict by satisfying all colliding requirements
1948	• The concept and first invention method • 4000 descriptions of inventions
1950-1954	Altshuller in prison
1956	• First article about invention method • Two articles, "Knowledge – Power" and "The Inventor and the Rationalizer" published • Five articles and brochures
1957-1958	Articles, seminars
1959	Second article about invention method
1960	Article "How Scientific Discoveries Are Made" published
1961	• The first book on TRIZ, How to Learn to Invent, published • More than 30 seminars carried out
1964	Basics of the Method of Inventing published
1965	• Newspaper, "Attention, an Algorithm of Invention!" launched • 5000 descriptions of inventions • Ideal machine concept – and ways to achieve it – developed • Some laws of technical development • The forecasting opportunity of the future machines is described • The step-by-step algorithm for inventive problem solving (ARIZ) – 4 stages are formulated (only 18 steps): 1) choice of a problem – 5 steps, 2) the analysis of a problem – 4 steps, 3) operative stage – 5 steps and 4) synthetic stage – 4 steps • Thirty-one technical principles for problem solving are formulated • Matrix 16x16 • Seminar program with 10 lessons
1968	• Steps to mass introduction • ARIZ-68, 35 principles, matrix 32x32 • Seminar in Dzintara – The Central Board of the All-Union Society of Inventors and Rationalizers (CB AuSIR) • Section of Methodical Council of CB AuSIR
1969	Algorithm of Invention published
1970	Republican school and public laboratory for invention methods – Baku
1971	• Algorithm of Invention, ARIZ-71, 40 principles, matrix 36x36 • The Public Institute of Inventive Creativity (PIIC or its Russian acronym, AzOIIT) founded
1973	• Second edition of Algorithm of Invention published • The first variant of su-field analysis • The first index of the physical effects • First conference of teachers in Dnepropetrovsk with certification of teachers (CB AuSIR)
1974	• TRIZ lessons in the Newsletter for pupils "The Pioneer Pravda" • Second conference of teachers in Gorky with certification of teachers (CB AuSIR) • Heuristics – persecution of TRIZ
1975	• ARIZ-75 – the physical contradiction • System of 1-5 standards
1976	• System of 6-9 standards • Courses of TRIZ in institute of improvement of professional skill in the ship-building industry • TRIZ education in professional technical schools
1977	• ARIZ-77 – the physical contradiction and physical contradiction at a micro-level • System of 11 standards • Value engineering and TRIZ • Inspiration on Demand published • Leningrad seminar
1978	• System of 18 standards • New system of laws • Method of forecasting of development of technical systems • Resources (the theory of applicability)
1979	• System of 28 standards • TRIZ lessons in magazine technique and science • Creativity as an Exact Science first published
1980	• System of 54 standards • Seminar of teachers and researchers in Petrozavodsk • Wings for Ikarus published
1982	• ARIZ-82, ARIZ-82B, ARIZ-82C • Scale of imagination • Persecution of TRIZ
1983	• System of 59, 60 standards • Chemical Effects • Translations of books: Creativity as an Exact Science into Polish, Wings for Ikarus into German, Algorithm of Invention into Vietnamese
1984	• Scientific seminar in Novosibirsk • System of 69 standards  • Subversive analysis (anticipatory failure determination) • And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared published
1985	• ARIZ-85C • System of 76 standards • The Life Strategy of a Creative Person published
1986	• To Find an Idea published • Founding of the Kishinev Center
1987	• Geometrical effects • The beginning of a series of books published in Petrozavodsk on creativity and technique • The Russian computer program Invention Machine launched
1988	Scientific seminar in Miass (Chelyabinsk)
1989	• Creation of TRIZ Association in the USSR • Search for New Ideas published • Registration of the Minsk cooperative society Invention Machine Lab
1990	Article "How to Become a Heretic" published
1993-1996	• The beginning of mass development of TRIZ-pedagogic • Principles for journalism and advertising • Creation of the Invention Machine Corporation • How to Become a Genius published
1998	Foundation of the Altshuller Institute in the USA
2000-2003	Foundation of the European TRIZ Association (ETRIA)

V. Zhuravleva, G. Altshuller and R. Shapiro  in Baku 1959

Covers of Altshuller Books

About the Author:

Vladimir Petrov, TRIZ Master, is a member of the board the International TRIZ Association (MATRIZ) and president of the Israeli TRIZ Association. Mr. Petrov holds two Master's degrees (automatic systems control and management of research and development). Having practiced TRIZ since 1972, Mr. Petrov has assisted in organizing TRIZ schools in many cities. Mr. Petrov conducted joint seminars with the founder of TRIZ, the late Genrich Altshuller, serving as a second teacher. Mr. Petrov solved a large number of inventive problems and conducted system development forecasts for Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corp., Boeing, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, BMW, BOSCH, CompAir, Dietz-Motoren, Krupp Uhde, Philips Semiconductors, Karat Digital Press Israel, Hewlett-Packard Israel, Applied Materials Israel, Intel Israel and others. Mr. Petrov has authored 8 monographs, textbooks, 150+ published works on TRIZ and 48 patents - all together more than 200 publications. Contact Vladimir Petrov at vladpetr (at) netvision.net.il.