After working through the complete process from getting an idea to finishing the product documentation, the result is collected here for a better overview:

Step I: What does an Engineer do?

• Small recapitulation of the tasks and skills of an engineer.
• What destinguishes him from a tinkerer and a scientist?

Step II: The first STEP on the way to YOUR Product: Inventing

• You got an idea, what you could do, but how develop it?
• Explore you idea.
• Tools for discovery and imagination.

Step III: The Other Kind of Research: Put your IDEA into the World

• Trowing the idea into the world.
• Comparing with what is already available.
• Where to look for competition.

Step IV: The Requirement List: The ENGINEERS way of TAKING AIM

• Defining the goal.
• What is the result of the work.
• How to define goals.
• How to keep track of them.

Step V: Function Analysis: No Maths but still solving Problems

• Analyze the function of the product.
• Break down and simplify.
• Seperating the product into easy to solve parts.

Step VI: Part Solutions: Solving one function after another

• How to develope technical solutions for your functions?
• Effect approach to technical solution.
• How to be creative?
• A good copy is better than a bad invention.

Step VII: Combined Solutions or How to build a spaceship

• How to combine solutions to the complete product?
• Keeping an overview and structure.
• Finding a combination that works with the requirements.

Step VIII: Comparing Combined Solutions: What is the best spaceship?

• Comparing multiple solutions.
• Weighted criterias to focus on the important factors.
• Narrowing down on the optimal product.

Step IX:Embodiment Design - Part 1: The Basic Rules and Principles

• Solving details of the product.
• Checking common rules and principles.

Step X:Embodiment Design Part 2: Guidelines for Design

• Using the guidelines for design to develop a rounded product.
• Leaving nothing to chance.

Step XI:To share IDEAS with OTHERS: Engineering Drawings

• Why are engineering drawings important?
• What makes them special?
• What is needed to make them?

Step XII:8 Steps to YOUR Engineering Drawings

• Which basic steps are made to get the drawings?
• The essentials of engineering drawings.
• Finishing up construction.

Step XIII:Product Lists and the Avtomat Kalashnikova

• Last step in the process.
• Listing all products in optimal structure.

Bonus:Books for Mechanical Engineering

• 5 books for mechanical engineering.
• All of them in German.

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