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Unit 3 Lesson 3 Notes

Companies use reverse engineering to analyze existing products. This involves disassembling a product to understand how it works and is made. The goal is to identify ways to improve a product's performance, features, or manufacturing process. Reverse engineering follows several steps: making predictions about a product's purpose and design; observing it; disassembling it to examine subsystems; analyzing components; and reassembling and testing it. Documentation of the process helps companies understand a competitor's product or redesign an obsolete one.

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Unit 3 Lesson 3 Notes

Companies use reverse engineering to analyze existing products. This involves disassembling a product to understand how it works and is made. The goal is to identify ways to improve a product's performance, features, or manufacturing process. Reverse engineering follows several steps: making predictions about a product's purpose and design; observing it; disassembling it to examine subsystems; analyzing components; and reassembling and testing it. Documentation of the process helps companies understand a competitor's product or redesign an obsolete one.

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Unit 3: Systems

Big Idea:
Systems are the building blocks of technology, and users must properly maintain, troubleshoot, and analyze
systems to ensure safe and proper function.

Lesson 3: Reverse Engineering

Big Idea:
Companies use reverse engineering to analyze the functioning and manufacturing of a current product for
product improvement and/or optimization.

Vocabulary:
Error Replicate
Minutiae Reverse engineering (RE)
Political implications Technological implications
Product Unstructured process
Profit
Guided Notes:
Forward Engineering vs. Reverse Engineering
Forward Engineering: process of moving from high-level abstractions and logical designs to the physical
implementation of a system.
Why Reverse Engineer?
 The Original manufacturer of a product no longer produces a product.
 The original design documentation has been lost or never existed
 Some bad features of a product need to be designed out.
 To explore new avenues to improve product performance and features.
 To gain competitive benchmarking methods to understand competitors’ products and develop better
products.
 To update obsolete materials or antiquated manufacturing processes with more current, less-
expensive technologies.
Reverse Engineering
Reverse engineering includes:
 Identifying the system's components and their interrelationships
 Creating representations of the system in another form or a higher level of abstraction
 Creating the physical representation of that system
Steps of Reverse Engineering
Prediction
• What is the purpose of this product?
• How does it work?
• What market was it designed to appeal to?
• List some of the design objective for the product.
• List some of the constraints that may have influenced the design.
Observation
• How do you think it works?
• How does it meet design objectives (overall)?
• Why is it designed this way?
Disassemble
• How does it work?
• How is it made?
• How many parts?
• How many moving parts?
• Any surprises?
Analyze
• Carefully examine and analyze subsystems (i.e. structural, mechanical, and electrical)
• Develop annotated sketches that include measurements and notes on components, system design,
safety and controls
Test
• Carefully reassemble the product
• operate the device and record observations about its performance in terms of functionality
(operational and ergonomic) and projected durability

Documentation includes the following:


• inferred design goals
• Inferred constraints
• design (functionality, form geometry and materials)
• schematic diagrams
• Lists (materials, components, components critical components flaws, successes, etc.)
• Identift any refinements that might enhance the product’s usefulness
• Upgrades and change

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