A Future Eco-Design Framework Based on TRIZ’s Contradictions and Bio-Inspired Design Process

Abstract

In the products development process, innovation is prescribed as a key parameter for technological evolution. It describes itself as a complex process that exploits different ways of transforming an idea into a reliable product. However, its way of resolution tends to amplify the conflicts of technical systems called technological contradictions. In this paper, was used the contradiction solving methods based on TRIZ Matrix in order to extract an ideal inventive principle which basically requires the existence of at least one contradiction to be eliminated. Then we will explore the potential of Bio-Inspired Design process that seeks, from ecosystem elements to extract conflicting functions that can be technologically transferable. Taking in account the aforementioned reasoning, we will discuss how the technical contradictions and their causalities can interrogate biomimetic databases to improve the innovation process by designing new environmental-friendly products that are more reliable. The aim of this work is to introduce new “eco-principles” by analyzing analogies between technical and biological solutions. The main objective is to analyze the possibilities to optimize an eco-inventive process for the next new technological generations. Based on this vision, the endpoint is to provide designers and engineers with the ideal eco-inventive methodology.