Technical Platform & Basic Design: Challenge of New Engineering Phenomena (Towards Review of Ontological Basis of Classical TRIZ)

Overall, the study aims to start the preliminary discussion concerning analysis and updating of the ontological foundations of TRIZ. Established in the mid-twentieth century, this theory was based on advanced for its time philosophical and methodological approaches and relevant to that time engineering practices. The main part of this basis has not lost its significance today, but it is clear that over the years the techno-sphere has got significant changes. Reflection and inclusion of them into the jurisdiction of the TRIZ methodology - a necessary condition for the development of TRIZ, maintaining its leading position in a number of substantive theories of development. From our point of view, main road of this update is to review and revise (if necessary) the basic provisions, postulates of TRIZ, called (in accordance with modern approaches of the philosophy of science) as “paradigm” or “ontology”a.In the main part of the study (sec1,2,3) we analyze, as an example, a fundamental concept of TRIZ - “Technical System” (TS), and its correlation with the relatively new phenomenon of modern techno-sphere - “Technical platform”/“Basic design” (TP/BD). In particular, we show that these entities have some specific characteristics of the development, not covered (described) in classical TRIZ laws for TS development (S-curves, ideatliy).In the final part of the study we return to the discussion of the ontological problems of modern TRIZ. In addition to the full-scale application of “ontology” in works to organize, classify, and translate into computer language the existing provisions of TRIZ, we discuss the ontology analysis and progress per se, and the applicability of the concepts of modern science methodology to ensure this process.