MATCEMIB is an acronym for the eight ‘fields’: Mechanical, Acoustic, Thermal, Chemical, Electric, Magnetic, Intermolecular and Biological. Although the fields of MATCHEMIB were introduced as prompts during idea generation in the TRIZ heuristics of Substance-Field Analysis, they can be used on their own.
In essence the fields of MATCEMIB play a role of simple heuristic that facilitates ‘manual’ search of the user’s knowledge database. While thinking of the means to delivered a required function the user is expected to sequentially consider each of the eight fields of MATCEMIB (e.g. Can the required function be delivered Mechanically?…Can it be delivered Chemically?..).
Below is a video explanation of the MATCEBIB heuristics, presented by Professor Iouri Belski. This video takes about 12 minutes.
This teaching resource has been provided by the Fellowship web repository (www.edisons21.com – decommissioned) which has been developed by a team of TRIZ academic experts under the supervision of Professor Iouri Belski from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). Materials offered by this repository are intended for usage by university academics and students and are offered under the Creative Commons Licence. Fellowship activities have been supported by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training.
Read more about the usage of the Edisons21 TRIZ Heuristics Repository materials here.
Permission to host these materials on our site has been granted by Professor Iouri Belski.