How Reverse Engineering Can Drive Innovation in Developing Mechanical Components

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How Reverse Engineering Can Drive Innovation in
Developing Mechanical Components?

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• Posted by Hiral Patel

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About Reverse Engineering

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• Reverse engineering finds huge application in
  bringing innovation in the development of
  mechanical components. Engineers often adopt the
  RE technique to determine flaws in the existing
  design or to develop better knowledge about the
  component design. While there have been several
  allegations that there has been more misuse of
  reverse engineering to study competitor products,
  there are reasons why reverse engineering in
  organizations should be promoted to generate
  ideas that can be applied for innovation. For
  manufacturing firms, reverse engineering
  mechanical components can turn out to be
  economically fruitful, while also providing end
  customer with a better product thus creating a
  win-win situation for both.

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Encouragement to Identify Design Alternatives

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• Reverse engineering plays a crucial role towards
  the road to innovation in product design.
  Determining underlying importance of each element
  in a particular component, engineers can figure
  out ways to improve the design further or rather
  determine design alternatives that are
  cost-effective, and are also better in terms of
  its functionally.
• With the required design information, innovative
  ideas can be encouraged and a competitive and
  efficient product can be materialized.

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Rethinking About the Manufacturing Processes

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• The idea to uncover the science and technology
  laid behind a specific mechanical component can
  also push to bring innovation in the
  manufacturing processes also.
• Evaluating the design for manufacturing defects
  or the investment of time required for production
  could lead towards rethinking the steps and
  processes involved in manufacturing. Bringing a
  change in a particular process or tool to avoid
  errors and defects can significantly help in
  reducing the time-to-market the product.

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Optimizing Performance And Strength

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• The process of reverse engineering also allows
  engineers to improve the performance and strength
  of the existing design. For components that fail
  frequently, RE proves to be extremely beneficial
  approach to identify design errors or
  miscalculations that can be eliminated
  successfully. By dismantling the equipment or
  assembly, one can gain enough information to
  implement optimization techniques for weight
  reduction and gain subsequent cost saving
  advantage. Through a separate analysis of
  individual elements of the assembly, critical
  regions requiring modification in the design can
  be identified.

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Gaining Better Knowledge

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• For engineers, design is a continuous learning
  process and RE is just the right tool to add
  substantial knowledge about the product
  functioning and science that works behind it.
• Performing reverse engineering is most common in
  industries equipped with research and development
  divisions to fuel innovation and identify
  information that can be utilized for the
  development of other products as well.

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Assisting in Developing Patentable Ideas

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• One of the prominent features of reverse
  engineering is it enables designers to generate
  patentable ideas, gaining a reputable position
  for themselves and the organization.
• Although, the process of RE might have been
  initiated by examining competitor product, the
  ongoing knowledge gaining process will assist
  designers and engineers to think out of the box.
  The end results could be an innovative idea that
  could be patented followed by its mass production
  to the targeted community.

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