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Reverse
Engineering Overview | Reverse
Engineering Services
Reverse engineering parts or assembly components may be required for
production of after market parts for automotive, aerospace, general industry or
replacement of out of manufacture parts.
The following are typical considerations and analysis which may be required:
- Material analysis, such as hardness and material used. Substitute
materials should be carefully analyzed more environmental, fatigue and aesthetics
properties.
- The original finishing and plating should be determined and duplicated or
a suitable equivalent of better should specified.
- Surface roughness
- Electrical characteristics
- Detail dimensional variation analysis
The detail dimensional analysis should be conducted using at minimal
calipers, however a more complete analysis my facilitated using a Coordinate-measuring machines (CMM),
which can be used to digitize the entire part and the
information can be utilized in computer-aided modeling. New and improved
techniques in reverse engineering include laser scanning which, as the name
implies, uses laser beams to scan across the surface of components of any shape
and display the results in real time. A minimum of five parts, not manufactured
within the same lot should be sufficient to establish a base line detail
engineering drawing.
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