P41 is now implementing more performant systems with agile recognition software (detection in whole viewing field) while using just basic webcams in several sectors. Multiple automotive companies are now spending 10x less on hardware, thanks to our cunning solutions.

See a screen-shot of real-time fiducial recognition at high refresh rate, using a € 80 webcam.

Contact us for implementation proposals.

Dear Visitor,

P41 and ICG T&C  organize the next edition of the “TRIZ Cafe” networking meeting on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 from 14:00 till 18:00 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

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Besides, you are invited to participate in the tutorial “Demand-Trend Matrix: Generating New Ideas with TRIZ Lines and Patterns of Technology Evolution” by Valeri Souchkov at the same day and location, from 09:30 till 13:30.  You do not need to know TRIZ to visit the tutorial.

The TRIZ Cafe meeting will involve both presentations by the participants and free-format discussions. Perhaps you would like to make a short presentation of your TRIZ story to the audience? Please let us know!

If you would like to visit one or both events please let us know as soon as possible. We will contact you as soon as we receive your submission.

The fees (including VAT/BTW):

• TRIZ Cafe only: EUR 60,-

• Tutorial only + Lunch: EUR 140,-

• Tutorial + Lunch + TRIZ Cafe: EUR 170,-

Payment can be done by invoice, PayPal, or a credit card.

We look forward to seeing you at the TRIZ Café!

We are proud to inform you that we now offer official TRIZ master courses with certification. Valeri Souchkov (board member of the European TRIZ Association) entered in a partnership with P41.

Valeri is internationally acknowledged innovation and TRIZ expert, developer, researcher, author of many publications and trainer certified by G. Altshuller (TRIZ founder). Valeri is pioneer promoter of TRIZ and Systematic Innovation in Western Europe, USA, and Asia. He is an author and lecturer of TRIZ at the University of Twente (the Netherlands) for B. Sc and M. Sc. students and invited lecturer on TRIZ at several European universities, including Rotterdam School of Management. In total he trained more than 4.000 people in TRIZ and Systematic Innovation. He co-founded a number of consulting companies in the area of TRIZ, innovation support and innovation management. Valeri goals and mission is to develop and bring to the market most advanced and practical methods, tools, and solutions which boost, leverage, and manage technology and business innovation.

For more information on training, contact info@p41.be or check out our training page

P41 organised the 1st Process Jump Event on the 17th of February 2012. In the Henry Watteeuw Academy, which is actually one of the projects initiated by P41, several companies joined breakfast together to get into a practical and factual approach of the Process Jump.

Ignace D’Hooghe of Fischbach Belgium explained how he challenged the Process Jump by putting the stakes at 50% reduction of defects made by his expert printers. During a 1 hour presentation he showed how P41 build proto-science models of what used to be perceived as pure skill. He demonstrated the broad veil of improvement directions and which have already been implemented today, allowing him to even overshoot the highly desired gain.

Luc Loeys, Industrial Gears Watteeuw, has a wide history with P41 and the process jump. He elaborated on how the breakthroughs have lead to changeover times with 30-45% reduction and how these innovations have been incorporated in the designs of his newest machinery, allowing him to still benefit without investing any penny more on new purchases.

Other participants came from all kinds of sectors, like Libeltex, Smartphoto, Isocab and Punch Power Train. Their feedback: “Most companies talk about innovation and it remains vague. Today we saw an extreem practical approach, with concrete models, technologies and we even got the opportunity to see it at work on the floor. This was a very interesting day!”

P41 organises the 4th edition of the TRIZ Café, together with a TRIZ introduction course (RCA+) on 29/february and 1/march this year.

29th of February 2012 : TRIZ Introduction course: ROOT-CONFLICT ANALYSIS (RCA+)

By Valeri Souchkov

Hands-on Course
Length: 8 hours  (9h to 17h)
Location: Bergheem
Lodewijk de Koninckstraat 10-12
2600 Berchem (Antwerp)
Participation:
155 € (incl. drinks & lunch, VAT)
-20% discount when combined with the TRIZ network meeting
Number of participants: max 20

WHAT YOU GET

• Understanding RCA+ method.
• Acquiring practical skills with problem analysis and building RCA+ diagrams.
• Learning ways to resolving contradictions to produce most effective and efficient solutions.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Everyone who would like to get introduced to TRIZ and learn the RCA+ paradigm of problems formulation, structuring and visualization and acquire practical skills how to use it in real everyday life. You do not need to have prior knowledge of TRIZ to participate in the course. This course is also a great warm-up

CERTIFICATE

Upon successful completion of the course, each student receives a uniquely numbered certificate issued by ICG T&C and the International TRIZ Training Centre.

WHAT IS RCA+?

Root Conflict Analysis (RCA+) is a technique for defining, structuring, and visually representing problems and problem situations. RCA+ helps managing complexity of defining problems through discovering contradictions which prevent us from solving a problem directly and recognizing how these contradictions are related to each other.

RCA+ is a domain-independent universal technique which can be performed within the scope of three tasks,  to model a specific problem related to a certain specific product, service or a process (e.g. glass polishing takes too long time, sales of a specific service produced by a specific company are too low).

1. To model a broad problem related to a whole class of products, processes or services (e.g. to reduce traffic jams, eliminate errors by a call centre, etc.)
2. To predict and eliminate possible and potential failures within systems and processes (e.g. to identify possible problems which might be caused by a newly developed camera, or predict causes of project failure).

In summary, RCA+ helps with:

• Decomposing a problem to a number of related causes and effects.
• Identifying “invisible” causes and conflicts.
• Extracting and presenting contradictions.
• Structuring and visualizing a problem.
• Reaching a common agreement and vision of a problem situation.
• Improving collaboration among team members when defining and solving a problem.
• Providing direct input for contradiction resolution techniques. (cfr. TRIZ)

RCA+ can be used in every area where problems, contradictions, and undesired effects take place and can be used independently of TRIZ to analyze problems and situations. In addition, coupled with TRIZ techniques for resolving conflicts, RCA+ provides a powerful platform not only for problem analysis but also for creative problem solving.

1st of March 2012: TRIZ Network meeting - 4th Edition of TRIZ Café:

Theme: LEAN vs. Agile

By Kim Rutten & Ives De Saeger

Networking event
Length: 4 hours  (13h to 17h)
Location: Bergheem
Lodewijk de Koninckstraat 10-12
2600 Berchem (Antwerp)
Participation:
70 € (incl. drinks & snacks, VAT)
Number of participants: max 50

WHAT YOU GET 

• Networking opportunities with local TRIZ masters
• Discuss and brainstorm on LEAN vs Agile Manufacturing
• Presentations and hands-on cases by participants

TARGET AUDIENCE

Everyone who would like to get introduced to TRIZ and get to know other TRIZnicks. You do not need to have prior knowledge of TRIZ to participate in the network meeting.

Would you like to learn about the latest TRIZ and xTRIZ tools and updates? To meet other TRIZ and Systematic Innovation professionals, practitioners and enthusiasts? To discuss and share your ideas and experiences about TRIZ and Systematic Innovation in informal environment? Or to learn what TRIZ is and how it can be used? If you live or stay in Belgium or nearby, then TRIZ Café might be the right place to visit for you.

During the meeting we plan to discuss various subjects: TRIZ for technology, TRIZ for business, TRIZ for education and general creativity development. We also plan to let everyone present his/her message related to TRIZ: news, experiences, difficulties, etc. We also will run a “TRIZ Express Case” session together to demonstrate how TRIZ works on a real case. The theme will be suitainable innovation.

CONTACT

If you would like to visit the event or interested, please let us know at kru@p41.be, before 24th of February.  We will reply with details on location, payment, …

Kim Rutten , Innovation Engineer

MAIL: kru@p41.be

WEB: www.p41.be
LINKEND-IN:  Borderling
MOBILE: +32 477 620 914

ORGANISATION

Training is delivered by Valeri Souchkov, M.Sc, internationally recognized TRIZ expert with experience in delivering systematic innovation training and consulting worldwide since 1988. He is a co-founder of Invention Machine Corp. and the European TRIZ Association (ETRIA), and was certified by the founder of TRIZ G. Altshuller. Currently he heads ICG Training & Consulting located in Enschede, The Netherlands and teaches TRIZ at theUniversity ofTwente, The Netherlands. Among his customers are ABN AMRO, Capgemini, DSM, DuPont, LG Electronics, Océ, Oracle, Philips, POSCO, Sensata, Shell, Siemens, Unilever, TNO, TNT Post, as well as various academic and governmental organizations. In total, he trained more than 4000 people in TRIZ. Valeri Souchkov is a developer of several TRIZ and Systematic Innovation techniques and the author of this course.

Ives de Saeger, ir. M.Sc.,  founded P41 Industrial Services and has been realizing breakthroughs for the last 15 years, regarding process innovation. He has a broad experience as engineer and trainer within many SME’s and multinationals, like Volvo, Barco, Connectronics, Johnson Controls, DAF, CNH, RAL, Watteeuw, Barco, Koppert, Fischbach, … He’s writing business novels on technology, knowledge and organisation innovation of which the first part, borderling, is out in stores and the second part will be published later this year.

At the age of 31; Kim Rutten, ir., has built up experiences and broad knowledge in all the fields of industrial engineering, innovation strategies and production management. His focus lies in innovative methodologies in the field of processes, organization and knowledge. Before joining P41 Industrial Services, Kim was active as consultant, engineer and account manager for trendsetting chemical companies in Europe, focusing on business development in ICT and niche chemical markets. Nowadays is innovation engineer at P41 and works within in the industry and services for a variety of large multinational and local SME’s, while deepening insights on TRIZ and parameter modelling.

We wish you the very best for 2012! Aside from excellent health, intense happiness and quality time in your personal life, we also aspire success in your business!

As partners in process innovation, our contributions in 2012 will be: the 4th and 5th edition of TRIZ café, our next business novel on knowledge-mapping, a seminar on agility and events to get you acquainted with our products, like the process jump and process reorientation. We present you new tools for visualizing the strengths and needs within your company, like the CMI value (together with professor Chalmet, AMS), our defect value map and our quadrant of company kinetics.

2012 promises to become a challenging year and we’ll be there at your side to convert your issues into breakthroughs!

Happy New Year!

The P41 Team

Video: Best Wishes for 2012!

Aside from the supercomputer JUGENE, which consists of 300.000 processors, special attention went to the Fusion Energy Research Project. There is a Tokamak on site. Tokamak is the Rusian acronym for “toroidal chamber with magnetic coils” and it is a device using a magnetic field to confine a plasma in the shape of a torus (doughnut). Achieving a stable plasma equilibrium requires magnetic field lines that move around the torus in a helical shape. Such a helical field can be generated by adding a toroidal field (traveling around the torus in circles) and a poloidal field (traveling in circles orthogonal to the toroidal field). In a tokamak, the toroidal field is produced by electromagnets that surround the torus, and the poloidal field is the result of a toroidal electric current that flows inside the plasma. This current is induced inside the plasma with a second set of electromagnets.

The tokamak is one of several types of magnetic confinement devices, and is one of the most-researched candidates for producing controlled thermonuclear fusion power. Magnetic fields are used for confinement since no solid material could withstand the extremely high temperature of the plasma. In Jülich they perform tests at 200 million degrees Celsius!

P41 will now see how they can assist in overcoming the current remaining challenges to make this technology viable.

14:00-20:00,  August 26,  2011

Location: Antwerp (B)  - to be specified

Would you like to learn about the latest TRIZ and xTRIZ tools and updates? To meet other TRIZ and Systematic Innovation professionals, practitioners and enthusiasts? To discuss and share your ideas and experiences about TRIZ and Systematic Innovation in informal environment? Or to learn what TRIZ is and how it can be used? If you live or stay in Belgium or nearby, then TRIZ Café might be the right place to visit for you.

During the meeting we plan to discuss various subjects: TRIZ for technology, TRIZ for business, TRIZ for education and general creativity development. We also plan to let everyone present his/her message related to TRIZ: news, experiences, difficulties, etc. We also will run a “TRIZ Express Case” session together to demonstrate how TRIZ works on a real case. The theme will be suitainable innovation.

We plan to hold our next meeting on Friday, August 26, 2011 from 14:00 till 20:00 in Antwerp. The meeting will involve both presentations by the participants and free-format discussions. Would you like to make a short presentation of your TRIZ story to the entire audience? Please let us know!

A preliminary agenda:
13:15-14:15: Coffee/tea, gathering

14:15-15:15: Main presentation, discussion

15:30-17:00: Presentations by the participants

17:15-18:00: TRIZ Express Case session

18:00-20:00: Free discussions and networking

We will adjust the agenda according to the participants proposals. A more detailed program will be mailed to the participants before the event takes place.
The fee for participation is Euro 59,50- (including 19% VAT/BTW). The fee covers rental costs of a meeting space, coffee/tea, refreshment drinks, additional materials.
If you would like to visit the event or interested, please let us know at kru@p41.be, before 24th of August.  We will reply with details on location, payment, …

We  look forward to seeing you at the TRIZ Café!

Kim Rutten

Innovation Engineer – P41 Industrial Services

kru@p41.be

0032/477.62.09.14