Any of these can be combined. Each one can be delivered as an overview,  a short or long training class, or as a customized workshop.

• Setting Reliability Goals

• Data Collection & Analysis

• Science-Based Causal Analysis

• Utilizing AI Tools for These Methods

• Cognitive-Behavioral Aspects of Human Impact on Failures

• Systematic Solution Generation with TRIZ 

• Reliability Test Plans

More detail is available in this document.

AI-Assisted Advanced Reliability Practices for Improving Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Performance.

These module titles may seem basic and familiar, but they are likely to be much more rigorous than what you are used to.

Five training modules covering:

• Setting Reliability/Performance Goals

• Data Collection & Analysis

• Science-Based Causal Analysis

• Systematic Solution Generation

• Reliability Test Plan

DOCUMENTS FOR MORE INFO & BACKGROUND:

• Adv Rel Info 230413.pdf

• Common Practices that can Prevent Advancement 

• Examples and Case Studies

aka Physics-Based Causal Analysis

Science-Based Causal Analysis is a method of understanding and analyzing systems and phenomena by using principles from science to identify and quantify causal relationships. 

Far more rigorous that common techniques used today, including better breadth and depth.

This method identifies key contradictions at the heart of the toughest problems, and frames them in such a way that they can be solved completely with TRIZ.

Handouts:

Open Source TRIZ

Utilizing AI Tools to:

• Provide valuable overviews as well as a deeper understanding of the system, thereby enabling more participation.

• Assist in performing the specific tools and methods in this approach, including:

  • Science-Based Causal Analysis, including the ongoing refinement of the problem statement(s).

  • Understand and incorporate the possible human cognitive / behavioral contributions to the problems. 

  • Assist in using "Separation Strategies" from "TRIZ" to create numerous elegant solutions to the most difficult problems, or contadictions.

Handouts/Cheatsheets:

• AI Tools for Innovation

• Master ChatGPT

• Helpful Prompts

Whether or not it is clear that a human is somehow involved in the process, they probably are.

Addresses several often-ignored areas of causes, e.g.

• Psychology

Heuristics

Cognitive Bias

Emotion

Motivation

Behavior

• Sociology

Social Norms

Crowd Influence

Group Dynamics

• Legal Theory

Definitions

Criteria for crime

Contributing factors

Handouts:

Examples & Case Studies

Cheatsheets on Cognitive Bias

TRIZ is an approach that combines an organized and systematic method for problem solving with analysis and forecasting techniques derived from the study of patterns of invention in the global patent literature.

It is a huge body of knowledge that is not quick or easy to learn, and therefore it is not wide spread.

Other popular methods are more easiily learned, but the capability of TRIZ is far superior.

Instead of striving for incremental improvement as is done with Six Sigma.  The expectation with TRIZ is to completely eliminate the problem, with powerful and systematic approach.

Key Resources:

• "TRIZ Power Tools" by Larry Ball

• Resource list  from "Classical TRIZ"

• Links to free databases containing many ways to provide a desired function, as seen in the world's patents.

• A variety of cheatsheets