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Diagnose a Product Failurewith Invention Machine Goldfire Want to determine or verify what is causing a product failure? Need to increase the visibility of your diagnostic efforts?

Designed with engineers, scientists and researchers in mind, Invention Machine Goldfire is innovation software that systematically guides innovation workers through more than a dozen innovation tasks spanninga product’s lifecycle—from identifying a new market to developing a newproduct to improving existing product offerings.

Goldfire brings structure and uniformity to inventive problem-solving, concept discovery, and idea generation and validation and provides a repeatable process for rapidly translating ideas into market-leading products.

Leveraging the Diagnose a Product Failure task within Goldfire, users canquickly: • Develop a robust set of root causes.• Produce an annotated diagram that explore the various cause-effect relationships.

• Gain an in-depth understanding of the behavior of a system.

Fusing proven innovation tools and methods with precise access to corporate and external knowledge, Goldfire gives users unprecedented access to the relevant technical knowledge they need in order to moreefficiently and more effectively solve problems, generate solutions andseize market opportunities.

“Goldfire offers functionality to help usmodel solutions for newproducts and do rootcause analysis to speed up our ability to resolve issues. It supports our formal design controlprocesses very well.”

– Dr. Lyle Sinor, VP of Research & Development, Immucor, Inc.

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STEPS IN THIS TASK INCLUDE: Exploring prior experienceLeveraging Goldfire, users research across semantically indexed knowledgebases of internal and external knowledge to quickly find answers to why aproduct failure is occurring.

Performing a high-level causal analysis Using Goldfire’s Root Cause Analysis tool, users identify the root cause ofthe failure of a product or process building a cause-effect model, withinGoldfire, to identify the core problems that caused the failure.

Once core problems are identified, Goldfire’s Solution Manager automatically generates problem statements and queries across knowledgebases to identify possible solutions to the core problem(s). Optionally, userscan then build a functional model of their system, within Goldfire, in orderto further analyze a product or process. Function models help engineersand scientists to analyze the design of products or processes, in terms oftheir functions, and identify areas for improvement.

Performing a deep causal analysisIn this step, users leverage the problem statements created in the initialhigh-level causal analysis as a starting point for deeper analysis.

Global 2000 manufacturers inmore than 25 countries rely onInvention Machine Goldfire forproduct innovation, process improvement and market expansion. For additional information, please visit InventionMachine.com.

The Goldfire interface guides users through more than a dozen every day innovation tasks -including Diagnosing a Product Failure