Mumbai university > mechanical engineering > sem 7 > cad/cam/cae

Marks: 5M

Difficulty: Medium

Reverse engineering, also called back engineering, is the processes of extracting knowledge or design information from anything man-made and re-producing it or re-producing anything based on the extracted information.

The process often involves disassembling something (a mechanical device, electronic component, computer program, or biological, chemical, or organic matter) and analyzing its components and workings in detail.

The reverse engineering process in itself is not concerned with creating a copy or changing the art I fact in some way; it is only an analysis in order to deduce design features from products with little or no additional knowledge about the procedures involved in their original production.

Reasons for reverse engineering:

• Interfacing.

• Military or commercial espionage.

• Improve documentation shortcomings.

• Obsolescence Software modernization 

• Product security analysis Bug fixing.

• Creation of unlicensed/unapproved duplicates

• Academic/learning purposes.

• Competitive technical intelligence.

• Saving money

• Repurposing