In legal cases, forensic engineers are commonly called upon to present evidence about how or why a part or a process failed. The forensic engineer often relies upon reverse engineering to understand ...

Reverse engineering carries a reputation problem in medical device circles; it sounds like copying. In practice, it's a legitimate engineering discipline with specific, defensible use cases: replacing ...

Any company that files patents as part of its intellectual property strategy should be actively thinking about the end use of those assets. For business leverage, a patent holder must be able to ...

Reverse optical engineering, also known as reverse engineering in optics, is the process of taking an existing optical component or system, analyzing it, and replicating it to create a similar or ...

Companies and inventors often will engage in reverse engineering to analyze an existing product for the purpose of determining how the product works. The ultimate goal is usually to make a competing ...

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division unveiled its new reverse engineering software, REcreate, for its North American customers at this year’s RAPID + TCT event in Chicago. Attendees and ...

You have a part that you need to recreate, but you don’t have a 3D model — meaning you can’t move straight to machining or printing a new part. So long as you have the part, however, and some ...

Artificial intelligence has dramatically broadened the capabilities of anyone looking to reverse-engineer public-facing products. What once took specialized skill, deep pockets, and many hours now ...