This book is a humble attempt towards exposition and utilization of value engineering, as an independent design plus production integrated scheme, with significant savings of material and efforts. The new industrial revolution that aims to conserve natural resources, prune down wastage, and spiral toward sustainable living is in perfect harmony with this rediscovered (and a bit reinvented) value engineering plus by authors. The book presents the remarkable system, well-established as value engineering or value methodology, developed by an iconic GE design Engineer, Lawrence Miles. It is a function-cost weighted approach and grounded in reality. The book discusses enhancement of a) creative thinking using techniques other than over-hyped brainstorming, b) including hands-on invention education in curricula from middle school to master's degree level, c) finally, a sensitization towards, followed by importance of possessing Intellectual Property (patent/utility model) for any tangible process or product created.
Dr. Saurabh Kwatra is founder and Tech Director of Trimmed Innovations. Trimmed Innovations is also a TIB Partner, Tokyo Innovation Base, Tokyo Metropolitan Government. He was a Teacher, Educational Studies Program (ESP), MIT in 2023 Summer, for which he received official appreciation. His first book on high level inventive design was published by Springer in 2012. Saurabh has five patents (including pending) on novel modifications applied to off-grid, standard, wind generators (horizontal wind turbines) and three working papers on healthcare products (mask, shaving razor) published at Innovation Science Guide, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), Harvard University. From 2021 onward, he has been Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Ambassador, also having served a term 2021 - 2024 on its Network Council, with now moving onto their Alumni Group while continuously supporting their noble cause. He was a Visiting Faculty, IIT Bombay; Guest Faculty, IIT Delhi, during 2012 - 2014, teaching design thinking and methodologies applied to new product development. In 2020-21, he was a reviewer (paid) for two consecutive cycles of NASA Post Doctoral Program (NPP). He has an Advanced Certificate in Industrial Design from IIT Delhi and Hero Motors (topper), Level 4 Master's in Innovative Design Technology, MA TRIZ (Ukraine) and a DSc in Innovation Management. Dr. Vijeta Jha is a theoretical physicist turned Intellectual Property expert, combining deep scientific insight with hands-on legal and technical expertise. She holds a Doctorate in Applied Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), where her research explored advanced materials and their technological applications. She has been recognized with multiple international accolades for her contributions to scientific research, science and innovation diplomacy, and the development of impactful intellectual property frameworks. Her accomplishments have also earned her a position as a Global Panelist for the MIT Technology Review, where she contributes to dialogue on frontier technologies and their wider societal and industrial implications. As the Founder & CEO of V Juridique, she has guided and secured hundreds of breakthrough technologies and continues to inspire innovators, researchers, and entrepreneurs to build future-ready, globally competitive IP portfolios. A global voice in emerging technologies, she continues to champion the power of intellectual property to transform ideas into impact, and innovators into industry leaders.
