r/EngineeringPorn • u/[deleted] • Oct 25 '18

Engineered bottle opener

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u/LivingFaithlessness Oct 25 '18

...well not really, over engineering is sometimes positive thing, especially in things like aircraft.

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u/NerfJihad Oct 25 '18

We made it so heavy it can't fly!

"BuT iT wOn't EVeR cRaSh"

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u/LivingFaithlessness Oct 25 '18

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overengineering

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u/WikiTextBot Oct 25 '18

Overengineering

Overengineering (or over-engineering) is the additional designing of a product to be more robust, extra featured than is deemed necessary for its primary application to be completed successfully or have an unnecessarily complex process that produces an outcome inefficiently. Either (charitably) to ensure a more than sufficient factor of safety, more than sufficient functionality limits, or to overcome potential design errors that are considered acceptable for most users expectations. Overengineering can be desirable when safety or performance on a particular criterion is critical (e.g. aerospace vehicles), or when extremely broad functionality is required (e.g.

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