Mechanics Substitution

{
  "id": "TRIZ-28",
  "title": "Mechanics Substitution",
  "intent": "Replace rigid, manual, or mechanical approaches with more flexible, informational, or automated ones.",
  "triz_principle": {
    "number": 28,
    "name": "Mechanics Substitution",
    "definition": "Replace a mechanical means with sensory, informational, or automated means."
  },
  "problem_understanding": {
    "core_contradiction": "We need control and reliability, but manual or rigid mechanisms are slow, error-prone, and hard to scale.",
    "why_this_hurts": "Human-driven or hard-coded control does not adapt well to complexity, volume, or change.",
    "typical_signals": [
      "manual approvals and checks",
      "hard-coded rules instead of configurable logic",
      "human monitoring instead of metrics",
      "operational overload as scale increases"
    ]
  },
  "solution_logic": {
    "core_idea": "Substitute manual or rigid control with information-driven or automated mechanisms.",
    "key_rule": "Automate decisions that are rule-based and observable.",
    "how_it_resolves_the_contradiction": "Control improves while speed and scalability increase through automation and information feedback."
  },
  "application_patterns": {
    "consulting": [
      "replace manual reporting with dashboards",
      "use metrics-driven governance instead of meetings",
      "automate compliance checks where possible"
    ],
    "software_engineering": [
      "policy-as-code instead of manual enforcement",
      "automated quality gates in CI/CD",
      "rule engines instead of nested conditionals"
    ],
    "architecture": [
      "event-driven monitoring instead of manual supervision",
      "automated scaling and recovery",
      "declarative configuration over imperative scripts"
    ],
    "enterprise_sap": [
      "BRF+ rules instead of custom ABAP checks",
      "automated DQ monitoring instead of manual reviews",
      "workflow conditions driven by data, not roles"
    ]
  },
  "anti_patterns": [
    "automating poorly understood processes",
    "black-box automation with no transparency",
    "automation without override or fallback"
  ],
  "usage_guidance": {
    "use_when": [
      "decisions are repetitive and rule-based",
      "volume or speed exceeds human capacity",
      "signals can be measured reliably"
    ],
    "do_not_use_when": [
      "judgment and context are critical",
      "rules are unstable or unclear"
    ]
  },
  "diagnostic_questions": [
    "Which manual steps are purely rule-based?",
    "What signals could replace human judgment here?",
    "How can automation be monitored and overridden?"
  ],
  "example": {
    "before": "Manual checks and approvals are required for every standard change.",
    "after": "Automated rules validate and approve standard changes, with humans handling exceptions only."
  },
  "meta": {
    "schema": "dkharlanau.dataset.byte",
    "schema_version": "1.1",
    "dataset": "TRIZ-bytes",
    "source_project": "cv-ai",
    "source_path": "TRIZ-bytes/TRIZ-28.json",
    "generated_at_utc": "2026-02-03T14:33:32+00:00",
    "creator": {
      "name": "Dzmitryi Kharlanau",
      "role": "SAP Lead",
      "website": "https://dkharlanau.github.io",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharlanau"
    },
    "attribution": {
      "attribution_required": true,
      "preferred_citation": "Dzmitryi Kharlanau. “Mechanics Substitution” (dataset bytes). CC BY-NC 4.0. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18862098. https://dkharlanau.github.io/datasets/TRIZ-bytes/TRIZ-28.json"
    },
    "license": {
      "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)",
      "spdx": "CC-BY-NC-4.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"
    },
    "links": {
      "website": "https://dkharlanau.github.io",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharlanau",
      "repository": "https://github.com/dkharlanau/dkharlanau-datasets"
    },
    "contact": {
      "preferred": "linkedin",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharlanau"
    },
    "canonical_url": "https://dkharlanau.github.io/datasets/TRIZ-bytes/TRIZ-28.json",
    "created_at_utc": "2026-02-03T14:33:32+00:00",
    "updated_at_utc": "2026-03-04T11:23:27+00:00",
    "provenance": {
      "source_type": "chat_export_extraction",
      "note": "Extracted and curated by Dzmitryi Kharlanau; enriched for attribution and crawler indexing."
    },
    "entity_type": "triz_byte",
    "entity_subtype": "",
    "summary": "Replace rigid, manual, or mechanical approaches with more flexible, informational, or automated ones.",
    "doi": {
      "concept": "10.5281/zenodo.18862098",
      "version": "10.5281/zenodo.18862097",
      "repository": "https://github.com/dkharlanau/dkharlanau-datasets"
    }
  }
}