For a long time, there was an annoying interruption in my workflow: I used AI to convert a function analysis from a table into a graphic – and then had to redraw everything by hand because tables are difficult to “grasp” if you can’t see their structure.
Two ideas changed that: Jochen Wessner suggested instructing the AI to output yEd-compatible .graphml directly. At Siemens in Berlin, system architects showed me Mermaid, and suddenly it clicked. So I programmed a small web tool that converts the CSV function table (from the function analyses by Tanasak Pheunghua and Jens Träger) into a Mermaid diagram and exports this model as yEd .graphml.
The best part is that you can immediately see when the AI has inserted an incorrect relationship, a missing operand, or a nonsensical function, as the structure becomes visually obvious.
Feel free to try it out:
Use the function analysis GPT
→ generate the function table
→ export it as .csv
Paste the CSV file into the text field on my page
→ instant function model
→ export to .graphml if you wish.
I’d be happy to hear how it worked out for you! Let me know on TRIZ Mastery Hub.