Your development knowledge lives in twenty files. The solution emerges in none of them.
Requirements in Word, ideas on flip charts, the FMEA in Excel, patents at the attorney’s — and when the concept decision comes up, nobody has the whole picture. inventMAP brings the development work together in one place: the network, where your problem becomes visible and every analysis deposits its results.
- ✓One thread instead of silos: requirements, problem analysis, inventing and evaluating work on the same model — nothing is maintained twice.
- ✓Inventive proposals with sources: TRIZ tools, your own patent portfolio, other industries and current research — never forced, always evidenced.
- ✓Everything stays traceable: months later you can still see how a decision came about.
What it costs if nothing changes
Scattered development knowledge is not just untidy — it makes decisions for you. Concepts are chosen before anyone has checked whether a patent stands in the way. Problems solved once get solved again two projects later. And the FMEA is written at the end from what the team remembers — not from what it actually thought through.
One journey: understand → analyse → invent → evaluate
inventMAP follows the backbone of every development effort — and keeps all stations on one shared model, the network. What one station works out is available to the next.
What works alongside you in product development
Each tool addresses a pain of its own — and all of them deposit their results in the same project. The three big ones have pages of their own with details and screenshots.
The network
Workshop over, flip chart photographed — and two weeks later nobody remembers why variant B was dropped.
The thinking surface: your problem as a map of goals, problems and solutions. TRIZ methodology works in the background, the idea assistant proposes evidenced solution approaches — and every line of thought stays traceable.
Network page →Foresight
You decide today what will be manufactured in three years — based on gut feeling and the loudest voice in the room.
The guided future run: from an honest maturity analysis through evolution patterns to evaluated concepts with their limits named. Shareable as a report — including with people who have no account.
Foresight page →Patents & Research
The patent search happens once the concept is fixed — and then somebody else's patent sits right in front of it.
One question, two worlds: worldwide patent data and scientific papers from the same search mask. With one-click analyses, methodical design-arounds of blocking patents and a watchdog for new publications.
Patents & Research page →Requirements
The specification has 400 lines — and nobody knows which of them are still open.
Capture requirements — including straight from an uploaded customer specification, with the evidence anchored at the source. Open requirements move into the network as problems and get a visible path to a solution.
Function analysis from 3D/CAD
Your product's function structure exists — but only in the heads of two colleagues.
Upload a STEP file, extract components and interactions, continue as a function model — the basis for trimming, contradiction analysis and FMEA.
D-FMEA
The FMEA gets written at the end, “for the audit” — from memory, under time pressure.
The D-FMEA derives from the network: failure causes, problems and improvements are already there from the real development work. Form sheet and network are two views of the same model — through to audit-proof release.
Project knowledge & minutes
The meeting minutes end up in a folder nobody ever opens again.
Documents, minutes and ideas in one place. From uploaded minutes, inventMAP extracts the problems and solutions discussed and proposes them as network nodes — you confirm each one.
Ready to bring your development into one place?
Start with your real problem — the network shows you the way.