The following are a few examples from G.S. Altshuller brochure TRIZ-1988 (Baku, 1988).

I use the rates between the USSR rouble and the U.S. dollar in 1982-1988 based on real prices for goods and estimate all values in the USA dollars in 1996 (SDS, 10/10/96).

A) The realization of a new electrical contactor designed at the company "Electrosila" in Leningrad within TRIZ saved annually about $ 250M and spared about 900 lb. of silver in 1982. (From the report of vice-head of USSR Department of Energy)

B) From 1972 till 1982 the TRIZ class in Dnepropetrovsk National University graduated about 500 students that received 350 patents on the inventions , the economic benefit is about $ 112 millions ( see. V. Nekrylov and V. Kalenik - Journal " A Engineering and Science ", 1982, N 1, p. 24.).

C) V.M. Zgabin wrote ( "Znamya" Kaluga, January, 1986 ): The efficiency TRIZ after it was learned by V.G. Efroimson and V.A. Polenovsky from our company is illustrated by the economic benefits from their inventions:

USSR Patent # 475591 - $ 630,000

USSR Patent # 476536 - $ 450,000

USSR Patent #890351 - $ 670,500

USSR Patent #733302 - $ 710.000

USSR Patent #733303 - $ 540.000

USSR Patent #733320 - $ 110.000

USSR Patent #1013892 - $ 500.000

Altshuller emphasizes: the count of efficiency is conducted on a guaranteed minimum.