TRIZ
Zinovy Royzen is a Master of TRIZ certified by Genrich Altshuller, the creator of TRIZ.
He is the founder and President of TRIZ Consulting,
Inc., Seattle, Washington, the first U.S. TRIZ provider.
He is Affiliate Associate Professor, University of
Washington, Seattle and has a MS in mechanical engineering. Mr. Royzen had been a Vice President of Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies
for more then 10 years and is currently serving on it's Certification Board.
Mr. Royzen has been applying TRIZ to new product development, quality improvement, cost
reduction, and inventive problem solving since 1980. He has been teaching TRIZ since 1984.
As the manager of training at The Scientific and Technological Center, Kishinev, former
Soviet Union, he conducted many TRIZ workshops and taught TRIZ to nearly 1000 engineers
and scientists. Mr. Royzen has applied TRIZ to numerous projects in diverse industries for
some of the largest companies in the former Soviet Union.
Since 1992, he has led workshops and/or provided consultation at numerous
organizations, including Boeing, Rolls Royce, Eastman Kodak, Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard,
Howmet Corporation, Hoover, Nestle, Illinois Tool Works, Kimberly-Clark, Lexmark International Inc., LG
Electronics, Lucent Technologies Inc., NASA, Paccar, Philips Semiconductors Hamburg,
Samsung, Thiokol Corporation, Western Digital Corporation, Weyerhaeuser Company, and
Xerox.
His customized on-site workshops and consulting provided his clients with high quality invention proposals and significant savings.
Zinovy Royzen is a leading TRIZ Developer. He developed the most user friendly and effective modern version of TRIZ including TOP function
modeling and problem formulation, Standard Techniques and Conflict Solving Algorithm. He published many TRIZ papers and holds 28 patents.