Product radical innovation based on global idealization

Abstract

Radical innovation as a revolutionary technology is a key for enterprises to update product technology and enhance market competitiveness. This paper proposes a method of the radical innovation based on global idealization. A target product is proposed and developed based on customer requirements and market changes. Opportunity of the radical innovation is identified based on the patent analysis using technology growth rate, technology maturity coefficient, and technology aging coefficient. The target product is designed based on the global idealization to build its function model. The global idealization is implemented using methods of trimming and function reorganization in the resource analysis, function-oriented search and effect search. Inventive problems are solved using TRIZ tools. Solutions are evaluated by the level of ideality based on the analytic hierarchy process and definition of the radical innovation. Feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method is verified in the radical innovative design of a dust-removal device on solar panels.