Reverse engineering involves duplicating an existing product without drawings or documentation by analyzing the product. It is commonly used when the original manufacturer no longer produces the product, documentation has been lost, or to improve and redesign products. The reverse engineering process involves analyzing a product to understand its components, operation, and manufacturing methods without reliance on original documentation.

1. Introduction to Reverse Engineering Dr.C.V.GOPINATH Principal Chaitanya Engineering College, Visakhapatnam-41

2. What Is Reverse Engineering? The process of duplicating an existing part, component or product, without the aid of drawings, documentation, or computer model is known as Reverse Engineering.

3. Why Reverse Engineering ? The original manufacturer of a product no longer produces the product , Ex: Old Maruti 800 spares The original manufacturer no longer exists, but a customer needs the product. Ex. Dyanora TVs The original design documentation has been lost or never existed. Ex: Fire Accidents

4. Why Reverse Engineering ? There is inadequate documentation of the original design Some bad features of a product need redesigned . To strengthen the good features of a product based on long-term usage of the product To analyze the good and bad features of competitors' product

5. Why Reverse Engineering ? To explore new avenues to improve product performance and features To gain competitive benchmarking methods to understand competitor's products and develop better products The original CAD model is not sufficient to support modifications or current manufacturing methods The original supplier is unable or unwilling to provide additional parts

6. Why Reverse Engineering ? The Original Equipment Manufacturers are either unwilling or unable to supply replacement parts, or demand inflated costs for sole-source parts To update obsolete materials or antiquated manufacturing processes with more current, less-expensive technologies

7. Reverse Engineering Process

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