INTRODUCTION

RE-ENGINEERING:

Re-Engineering is creating a new piece of product with similar functionality as an existing

one. In absence of design data, the reverse engineering process is considered as a main tool
for modeling. Reverse engineering process involves identifying the geometry of existing part,
creating a geometric model of the part from the identified data and passing this model to
designing software for manufacturing.Reverse engineering technology is considered an
important tool in a variety of manufacturing applications. It considerably reduces the production
lead time and the costs of the part duplication processes.Sometimes manufactured products are
designed using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software but there are many softwares in the
market. For imagining, data exchange or manufacturing applications, the geometric model has
to be discretized into a 3D mesh composed of a finite number of vertices and edges. And new
method was proposed method is validated on 3D meshes. The Computer-aided Reverse
Engineering (CARE) creates a computer model of an object by adapting in digital form real object
geometry, and the fine scale texture surface properties throw measurements of the object, as it exist
in the real world.

The availability of modern design, prototyping and manufacturing systems has provided
industry with high ability to bring products to market faster and ensure that they conform to
specifications. So,Reengineering along with sophisticated finite element or computational fluids
dynamics codes, have enabled designers to investigate the change in design and to select the
best or optimal plans.For example, Re-engineering or Reverse Engineering is very good
procedure to determine the inlet port geometry for engines.

Reverse engineering has been widely recognized as a vital step in the product design
cycle. To process 3D digitized data, contemporary CAD systems supply reverse engineering
modules. These modules, however, require significant designer interference to achieve an
accurate resulting model.
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REVERSE ENGINEERING AND RE-

ENGINEERING:

Re-Engineering:

Re-engineering is the investigation and redesign of individual components. It may also describe
the entire overhaul of a device by taking the current design and improving certain aspects of it.
The aims of re-engineering may be to improve a particular area of performance or functionality,
reduce operational costs or add new elements to a current design. The methods used depend
on the device but typically involve engineering drawings of the amendments followed by
extensive testing of prototypes before production. The rights to re-engineer a product belong
solely to the original owner of the design or relevant patent.
Reverse Engineering:

Unlike re-engineering, reverse engineering takes a finished product with the aim of discovering
how it works by testing it. Typically this is done by companies that seek to infiltrate a
competitor's market or understand its new product. In doing so they can produce new products
while allowing the original creator to pay all the development costs and take all the risks
involved with creating a new product. Analysis of a product in this way is done without technical
drawings or prior knowledge of how the device works, and the basic method used in reverse
engineering begins by identifying the system's components, followed by an investigation into the
relationship among these components.

Though there are many uphills in the Re-Engineering still there are some down slopes in
it.Some them are listed here:

inefficient surface rebuilding process, lack of digitizing exactness control in the data digitisation
process, and bottle necks resulted from enormous amounts of digitized surface points in the surface
modeling process. Under this limitation, modern concurrent engineering concepts are difficult to
apply for obtaining optimal product design.