Offering Description
Setting up a team of subject matter experts, TRIZ specialists and GKN experts
Identification of target MPVs
Conceptual design of new product/process
Enabling technologies identification
Proof-of-principle prototyping
Background
There are number of hands sanitizers that could be used occasionally somewhere out of sanitizing facilities
All of them have number of disadvantages:
Excessive cost
Excessive skin drying
Existing lotions compensating the skin drying provide a friendly environment for harmful bacteria and dirt. Also they eliminate subjective feeling of the skin cleanliness and have excessive cost
Lack of a “wow effect” necessary to attract more customers
Project goals:
Main Goal:
Develop a new product with high “wow effect”
Additional Goals:
Reduce cost
Provide subjective feeling of cleanliness
Radical Trimming
Application of Standard Inventive Solutions
Application of Function-Oriented Search
The same function as surfactant is performed in washing machine by electrically activated water
Detergentless Haier WasH20 Washing Machine
Haier WasH20 just came with a new and innovative washing machine, that can save you the money you spend on detergent or soap. The Haier WasH2O washing machine doesn’t use any detergents!!! This washing machine works by breaking water molecules into its OH- and H+ ions components. OH- acts as the cleaning agent by attracting and retaining stains while the H+ ions sterilizes the clothes.
http://freshome.com/2007/07/31/detergentless-haier-wash20-washing-machine/
Activated Water: “Teach Sebum to do the Job of Surfactant”
The principle: electrically activated alkaline water (catholyte) makes sebum a surfactant
Product Format: Spray
Advantages
Sebum produces surfactant => no excessive amount of surfactant => no skin irritation + no excessive removing of skin moisture => no lotion is necessary => good feeling of cleanliness + low cost
Sebum produces surfactant => no external surfactant => low cost
No external surfactant + no lotion => the bottle can be refilled with water from any available source => high convenience + low cost
No external surfactant => no excessive amount of water is necessary to remove it => small bottle => high convenience + low cost
High “wow effect”