subject: The process of reverse engineering and its link to the organizations [print this page] The process of reverse engineering and its link to the organizations
Reverse engineering is a well known process in which the technological principles of an already existing device are being discovered. Due to reverse engineering organizations come to know how a certain product is being developed. It is a process that engages the individuals in a continuous learning process about a product or a system. Reverse engineering is very important from scientific point of view. Major inventions in the world came up due to reverse engineering. It increases the technological know how about a certain product.
Lately reverse engineering was viewed as a crime by the major organizations which came up with innovative products. They called it a crime because they spent a lot of money and time in the invention of a certain product and the scientists and engineers reverse engineered their products and came up with a competitor product with low price. This caused the organizations that came up with the invention to bear losses as they could not recover the amount which they invested on the research and development of the product. But today reverse engineering is a famous mode of discovering and gathering knowledge about a certain product or technology. Countries all around the world provide a security to the businesses and organizations which come up with innovative products. They give them patent on the product. This patent acts to protect their product from getting reverse engineered. Patents are mostly taken by the pharmaceutical companies as they spend a lot of money on research and development of a medicine to cure a certain disease. Other than that the companies which come up with innovative products also take patent on the product which means no other company or organization can manufacture or reverse engineer this product for the next 5 or 10 years.
There are certain steps involved in reverse engineering process. The first step of reverse engineering is to find out which product, part or item is to be reverse engineered. It is a prescreening stage. Organizations do proper analysis before reverse engineering any product, part or item. They identify whether they will get any benefit from the reverse engineering or not. If it is clear that there is no use of reverse engineering a product they do not go for it's reverse engineering.
After selecting a product the next step in the reverse engineering process is to go through all the details about the product. The engineers read all the instructions and details about the product or item. The engineers undertake all the technical data and look up to the working of the product closely.
In the next step of reverse engineering the engineers disassemble the product, verify its validity and test its functions. They then try different experiments on the product and go to their basics. They get the full knowledge about the functioning of a product. The next and the final step in reverse engineering is to manufacture a similar product or bring some changes in the product, make it better and come up with a new product that is more attractive and better than the one before reverse engineered.
Reverse engineering is being adopted by a lot of companies. They analyze the products of other competitors through it and they also reverse engineer their own products and come up with a product that is of more advantage.
