Looking at that title, you’re wondering how can breaking down buildings help you build better ones?
Definition – “Reverse engineering is taking apart an object to see how it works in order to duplicate or enhance the object. The practice, taken from older industries, is now frequently used on computer hardware and software.
While the second half doesn’t apply as much to what you need, it is still interesting to note that even now people are using reverse engineering to improve on their products. Reverse engineering is a technique that is used across the board in a variety of different fields from technology to fashion, from automotive to architecture.
When it comes to designing homes, schools, bridges or other architectural pieces it’s useful to take something that you’ve created before and find things that you may have missed the first time. Reverse Engineering is a way to look at plans and find things that you can improve on, that you may have missed the first time. Taking the building from the ground up and seeing how the pieces fit together, can allow you to take those insights and apply them to something new. Perhaps there is wasted space in the design thanks to a miscalculation that was overlooked, or design element that was off due to a computer error. There could be new advents in the market that have allowed more electrical components to be packed into a smaller area, thus freeing up space for other important things.
By improving on what you’ve built before, you’re pushing your business and your team further. To test the bounds of ingenuity and creativity while still improving on what you’re offering to your clients. When you continue growing and improving what you’re offering, your clients notice and word spreads “Here is a company that isn’t willing to rest on their laurels.”
Innnovation and Improvement Through Reverse Engineering
Reverse engineering through the integration of CAD applications and other design software elements can dramatically improve the pace of new design and development.
The rise in recent years of 3D scanning and mapping technologies has made reverse engineering a legitimate route to take on the path to designing new products or manufacturing revenue streams, or to improving old ones. These applications are growing widely in application across a multitude of industries from athletic equipment like golf clubs to wheels for custom cars and motorcycles. On top of its usefulness, the cost of scanning, recording, analyzing, modifying and reproducing something is dropping rapidly as software is streamlined for the purpose, and computers themselves, with hardware that may have been improved through these practices, are brought to the marketplace.
Reverse engineering diminishes the number of specialists needed to craft a new product or improve the old as well, as the specifications of the original can be discovered through the process without the grind that creation of a totally new component demands, thus reducing time and personnel, which in turn benefits the bottom line. All of this makes reverse engineering good business. However, despite the cost and the relative ease of the process, trained and competent draftsmen and technicians are still needed to apply these evolving applications to components under examination. Achieving successful reproduction to true specifications demands a degree of specialization many makers and designers just don’t have time to learn.
That is where the professionals at The Engineering Design come in to play.
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