The history and purpose of the Show Sin. The Longevity Star Company.

New products have been invented and fabricated. A credit is needed to construct a glass-manufacturing furnace. We cannot tell in brief about instruments used to obtain new products. That is why the text of the article is so long.

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The history and purpose of the Show Sin. The Longevity Star Company Creating new products is the most ancient occupation on earth. Even the notorious "most ancient " commodities (as well as occupations) appeared only after someone had formulated their necessity. Anyway, "in the beginning was the word", but it had no doubt been preceded by the thought. It is the process of thinking as an instrument of making new things that underlies the forming of the Show Sin.The Longevity Star Company, which is a laboratory for creating new goods. In due time Engels was right to point out that whenever there is a need in the industry it moves the science forward faster than a dozen of universities. These words are applicable to creative work as a whole, and especially so to the technical one. The need for research methods in the industry rose dramatically during the World War Two.

Let us remember that when missiles, anti-high-speed-aircraft systems appeared (which stimulated the creation of the computer), so did A-bomb projects in the USA, in the USSR, and in Germany. Not only did the projects require large-scale scientific engagement in the solution of technical problems. There was an urgent need for inventions. That is why in the early 1940's engineers and researchers independently working in different fields of science began to offer "refinements" of research work, which were the first "industrial" ways of looking for new technical solutions. At the time, the Alex Osborne's brain attack and the Zwick's morphological analysis appeared. At present time, there a lot of such methods, including both those based on the optimum logic of analysis, such as the inventor problems solving algorithm (IPSA), functionally - the physical method (by R.Coller), and those based on heuristic approaches: the sinectics, the Matchett's fundamental design method.

Take, for instance, "the Zwick's morphological analysis". Zwick, the famous Swiss astronomer, author of this research method, did not give comprehensive definition of the term "morphological analysis". He only pointed out that this is the method of finding all variants of a problem's solution. The morphological analysis was first used in solving technical problems in 1942, when Zwick began to develop rocket engines with the Aerogent Engineering Corporation. To try to explain the main idea of the method in brief it is enough to remember the famous poet Paul Verlaine's words: "To invent one must be two personalities: the first one is to make combinations, and the second one is to choose." Thus, the idea of this analysis lies in the fact that a new designed product's pre-specified consumer properties, having been split into components, may be presented as an alternative set of variants, which suggests constructing a morphological matrix, each element of which is analyzed "by hand", that is "with one's brains."

Verlaine demonstrated the method's effectiveness with concrete examples. In 1943 he constructed a morphological matrix for chemical-fuel jet engines, which contained 576 possible variants of the V-2 shell and the V-1 missile as well as those of then-top-secret German aircraft. Here we can draw the following analogy. D. Mendeleyev, working on straightening out the periodic system of elements did not set himself an objective directly related to discovering "new bricks of the universe "; but having classified the elements and plotted them as a matrix, he could predict properties of many unknown elements. And soon it was, as we know, that they were found by experimenters. According to Zwick's statement made in 1961, more than 70 major industrial companies were using his method to solve various technical problems. Or, take, the Inventing Machine (IM) program package written in Minsk in 1990. Its author, Valery Tsurikov, was a student of the well-known G.S.Artshuller, who was the president of the All-Union IPST (Inventor Problems Solving Theory) Association. The program package is a complex of sub-systems. Thus, for instance, the technical solutions generation sub-system contains 8 basic methods of problem solving as well as 76 IPST "standards." Another sub-system is "sewn-in" with more than 600 physical, chemical, and geometrical effects used in solving of inventor problems. According to V. Tsurikov himself, an inventor's intellectual potential increases nearly 6000-fold when working with his package. continue...>>>