The Role Reverse Engineering Plays in Electronic Manufacturing Services


Reverse Engineering is the process of identifying the components of a system and their relationship with one another by thorough analysis to duplicate or upgrade the system. The system may be an existing component, subassembly, or product. And the process of Reverse Engineering is carried out without the help of drawings, documentation, or computer model.

Reverse Engineering is not as easy as it sounds and it mandatorily requires a good knowledge and experience of circuitry. This entails:
  • Understanding engineering sketches and specifications 
  • Electronic analysis of the system 
  • Component obsolescence analysis 
  • Component material analysis 
  • Dimensional analysis 
  • Process variation of the reverse engineered system 
Deconstructing a finished product to determine how parts fit together and how the system works can guide us a great deal about analysis, design, development, testing, and maintenance of the system.

The Systematic Process of Reverse Engineering

  1. Identification and analysis of the machine’s components and their relation to one another. It constitutes analyzing each component’s electromagnetic interference, radio frequency, control loops, and communication and contacts between parts.
  2. Make the diagrammatic representation of the information discovered while studying the components.
  3. With the help of the diagrammatic representation, create a physical version by reassembling parts.

Say, if you are the Developer…

You can have a thorough working knowledge of all the individual components and how they function together only when you think like a developer. When it comes to performance, a redesigned or remanufactured machine can have an inferior performance due to a simple deviation from the original calibration. It is important that the current machine, despite some degraded performance meets the recommended specifications. Close analysis of the components would help you to determine whether design or chip technologies must be updated or replaced, or whether designing additional programs or fine-tuning existing programming would align to your requirements. And once you have reverse engineered, determine whether the system meets your requirements.

Reverse Engineering: Facilitating Decision Making

Reverse Engineering forms an integral part of Electronic Manufacturing Services. When all the working parts are disassembled and reassembled, or minimum considered in terms of function and performance, you can gauze a lot about analysis, design and development, and maintenance of the system. This facilitates efficient decision-making process along with saving time and money. From the analysis, we may find that only a few parts require a change in design, or maintenance. Thus, we can formulate a plan only for these parts and deploy them.

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