| What are Decisions? | p. 1 |
| Understanding the Decision Process | p. 1 |
| What It Is to ""Make Decisions"" | p. 1 |
| Route to Decisions | p. 5 |
| Decisions and Doubts | p. 7 |
| Describing and Transferring the Decision Process | p. 13 |
| The Need to Know the Decision Process | p. 13 |
| Method of Recording and Transferring the Decision Process | p. 16 |
| Actual Methods for Transferring Decision Processes | p. 20 |
| Diagrams for Expressing the Decision Process | p. 22 |
| Example of Recording the Decision Process | p. 27 |
| Describing What Happened | p. 27 |
| Processes and Contents from This Event | p. 33 |
| Decisions in Design | p. 39 |
| Questions about Design | p. 39 |
| The Mind's Decision Process During Design | p. 40 |
| Constraints and Evaluation of Design | p. 43 |
| Describing the Design Content | p. 46 |
| Designers Want to Know the Reason for the Designs | p. 47 |
| Design Support Systems the Designer Wants | p. 49 |
| Sample Decisions in Design | p. 55 |
| Hydraulic Cylinder - the Mind Process of Designing One | p. 56 |
| Designed a Torque Sensor | p. 65 |
| Designed a Positioning Table | p. 77 |
| Design Specification of the Positioning Table | p. 77 |
| Analyzing the Functional Requirements | p. 78 |
| Discussing and Determining the Basic Mechanism | p. 78 |
| Producing the Structure | p. 80 |
| Built an Intelligent Grinding Tool for Producing Flat Wafer Surfaces | p. 82 |
| Planned and Proposed the Nanomanufacturing World Project | p. 86 |
| Developed the Control System for Automatic Grinding of Turbine Blades | p. 90 |
| Built ""Creative Design Engine"" for Assisting Idea Generation | p. 98 |
| Guided Students' Free Imagination in Building Stirling Engines | p. 102 |
| Real Decisions in Manufacturing | p. 113 |
| Decision-Making in Technology Development | p. 114 |
| Finding Out the Real Safety System at Mt Usu - Thinking 1 | p. 114 |
| Designed a Pressure Sensor Exposed to Severe Conditions - Thinking 2 | p. 118 |
| Reduced the Weight of an Automobile Compressor - Thinking 3 | p. 122 |
| Automated the Narita Express Car Junction Hood - Thinking 4 | p. 127 |
| Developed a Telescopic Arm Clamshell Digger - Development 1 | p. 131 |
| Developed an Automatic Segment Construction Robot for Sealed Tunnels - Development 2 | p. 137 |
| Developed a System for Preventing Mobile Crane Overturn - Development 3 | p. 142 |
| Modified the Lighting Unit of a Wafer Character Recognition Machine - Practice 1 | p. 148 |
| Succeeded in Laser Welding by Controlling Its Tip Distance - Practice 2 | p. 154 |
| Applied IC Tagging for Managing Metal Mold Parts - Practice 3 | p. 158 |
| Modified a Sandblast Machine for PDP Class Substrate Machining - Practice 4 | p. 161 |
| Installed a New Cable on a Multi-Joint Robot - Modification 1 | p. 164 |
| Modified a Material Cooling System but Could Not Cut the Cost - Modification 2 | p. 170 |
| Successfully Anchored a Floating DNA Fiber in Liquid - Research 1 | p. 171 |
| Made DNA with Fluorescent Molecule Visible in Liquid - Research 2 | p. 176 |
| Built a Microscopic Assembly Tool - Research 3 | p. 180 |
| Accomplished Wide-Range High-Precision Positioning - Research 4 | p. 185 |
| Decision-Making in Technology Management | p. 189 |
| Selected a 3D CAD System - System Introduction 1 | p. 189 |
| Arbitrarily Selected a CAM System - System Introduction 2 | p. 192 |
| Evaluated a Technology for Breaking Rocks with Electromagnetic Force - Technology Introduction 1 | p. 195 |
| To Introduce a New Forming Method to Our Main Factory or Not - Practical Solution 1 | p. 198 |
| Decisions about Individuals and Organizations | p. 203 |
| Decisions about Occupations | p. 204 |
| Jumped to a Small Company for a New World - Job Change 1 | p. 204 |
| Moved from Manufacturing to Consulting - Job Change 2 | p. 207 |
| Moved from a Company to School for a Diploma - Job Change 3 | p. 210 |
| Resigned from a Trading Company and Became Independent - Entrepreneurship 1 | p. 212 |
| Started a New Business in the US for Building a Bridge over the Pacific - Entrepreneurship 2 | p. 218 |
| I Became Disabled and Selected the Course of My Life - Turning 1 | p. 221 |
| Jumped into an Unexplored Research Area - Turning 2 | p. 225 |
| Built a New Lab and Research Group in a Conventional Field - Turning 3 | p. 227 |
| Decisions about Corporate Management | p. 231 |
| My Company will Disappear in One and a Half Years - Operation 1 | p. 231 |
| Forced an Organizational Change in a Traditional University - Operation 1 | p. 233 |
| Located a New Factory - Investment | p. 236 |
| Selected My Successor and Recommended Him - Resources 1 | p. 239 |
| Restructured a Department with My Own Thoughts and Failed - Resources 2 | p. 241 |
| Started a Young Engineers Training Program - Management 1 | p. 243 |
| Applied to a MITI Project but I Was Declined - Management 2 | p. 246 |
| Applying the Mind Activity for Manufacturing | p. 249 |
| Where in Manufacturing to Apply the Mind Activity | p. 249 |
| Decisions by INCS | p. 250 |
| Implementation by INCS | p. 252 |
| Outcome of the INCS Development | p. 256 |
| Where Does This Lead Us to in the Future? | p. 257 |
| Postscript | p. 261 |
| Index | p. 263 |
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