This paper proposed a TRIZ-based integrated problem solving process to resolve a process-machine problem by re-designing the slit-valve of the processing machine. Based on a slit-valve failure of a chemical vapor depositionequipment in one of major Taiwanese foundry companies, the proposed problem solving process sucessfully identified the critical key disadvantages of the problem and solved th...

Article history: Received 26 June 2012 Received in revised form 27 August 2013 Accepted 28 August 2013 Available online xxxx In the last decades, there have been researches on development processes that focused on technological evolutions, aiming at anticipating future product releases. The information obtained has been formalized in trends of evolution, and systems to manage and exploit these ...

Many companies look for business process management as a way to put into practice their strategic goals, thus expecting to anticipate and adequate themselves for potential environment changes. However, it is possible to find a set of innovation barriers when the process management methodology is executed, such as the existence of conflicting project goals, the inherited level of business proces...