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Evolutions in Mechanical Engineering

Overview on Reverse Engineering

Amit Rakshit*

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kanad Institute of Engineering and Management, India

*Corresponding author:Amit Rakshit, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kanad Institute of Engineering and Management, West Bengal, India

Submission: February 16, 2023;Published: March 06, 2023

DOI: 10.31031/EME.2023.04.000590

ISSN 2640-9690
Volume4 Issue3

Opinion

Reverse engineering sometimes known as a back engineering which is a process in which machines, aircraft, architectural structures and additional goods are deconstructed to extract design information from them. Reverse engineering involves deconstructing human being components of larger products. Reverse engineering process enables you to settle on how a part was designed so that you can restructure it. Companies over and over again use this move towards when purchasing a replacement part from an original equipment manufacturer is not an alternative. The reverse engineering process is named as such because it involves working backward through the original design process. Therefore, the confront is to gain a working knowledge of the original design.

Applications

Companies habitually aid to reverse engineering on old electronic components such as discontinued printed circuit boards and connecting cards. If the manufacturer is still in business, they might no longer offer the part. The firms often reverse engineer old electronics for the sake of continuity. If an old piece of computer equipment had functions that have since been lost amid the subsequent changes in technology, reverse engineering allows manufacturers to rediscover these formulas and bring them up to date. Reverse engineering also enables you to develop components that bridge the new and the old allowing user of older equipment to connect their devices to modern computing equipment. In some cases, the only way to obtain the design of an original product is through reverse engineering. Often, there will be no way to contact the original manufacturer as the company may no longer be in business. Companies sometimes use reverse engineering to recuperate propose data on their own long-discontinued products. For example, a small company that has been in business for more than forty years may have manufactured numerous products before the days of computer-aided design and digital file storage. Consequently, these older products may be based on long lost paper blueprints. Through reverse engineering, companies can regain their lost designs and create archives of their product legacy. Even if the company still has their paper blueprints, they may want to create a digital version of them to make the plans easier to access and use. The business could use certain reverse engineering techniques to create this digital design file.

Purpose

Reverse engineering provides manufacturers with information about the design of a product or component. When done successfully, reverse engineering gives you a virtual copy of the blueprint that went into the original design. Reverse engineering is perhaps the most accurate way to recreate the designs for items that went out of production decades beforehand. In cases where the original blueprints are long since lost or destroyed, reverse engineering is perhaps the only way to bring such products back to life. If you can obtain a working model of an old product, you can typically trace the steps of its design and use those insights to construct a new model, repair a part or improve future products.