Seriously can someone teach me how to explain this term?/subject during a family gathering the more i try to explain the more complex it becomes! thank you everyone!
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Step 1: look at thing
Step 2: take thing apart piece by piece
Step 3: detail the process
Step 4: reverse that process
Step 5: check and see if the new thing functions or is exactly like the old thing (if not, find a new thing and return to step one)
Step 6: document your final findings for future use.
Reverse engineering just means taking something somebody else built that you don’t know how it works, and taking it apart slowly piece by piece to figure out how it works. Usually so you can figure out how to make your own.
Reverse engineering just means taking something somebody else built that you don’t know how it works, and taking it apart slowly piece by piece to figure out how it works. Usually so you can figure out how to make your own.
Reverse engineering just means taking something somebody else built that you don’t know how it works, and taking it apart slowly piece by piece to figure out how it works. Usually so you can figure out how to make your own.
Reverse engineering is basically looking at something and thinking about how it would work. Then you take it apart slowly, looking at every part and thinking about what each part does and how it connects to the whole. Eventually, you take everything apart and have a general idea how everything works together.
engineering is basically building things to do specific functions. Reverse engineering is the reverse – you know what something does (it’s function) so you take it apart to figure out how it was built.
Step 1: look at thing
Step 2: take thing apart piece by piece
Step 3: detail the process
Step 4: reverse that process
Step 5: check and see if the new thing functions or is exactly like the old thing (if not, find a new thing and return to step one)
Step 6: document your final findings for future use.
Step 1: look at thing
Step 2: take thing apart piece by piece
Step 3: detail the process
Step 4: reverse that process
Step 5: check and see if the new thing functions or is exactly like the old thing (if not, find a new thing and return to step one)
Step 6: document your final findings for future use.
It’s like building Legos; the normal way is to follow the official instructions, but it’s also possible to build it by looking at the completed picture and working back from there.
In general, disassembling something can provide insight into its manufacture. It’s possible to see what each component does and that can tell someone how the thing actually works. Then it’s just a matter of gathering the components and building a replica
Engineering usually begins with concepts that are made into designs and then built and tested until they find a solution that works.
Reverse engineering is starting with the solution that works and taking it apart to learn how it was designed.
The purpose is when there is a successful product it may be a trade secret or patented and others wanting to compete in the market don’t want to have to start from scratch like the original company did to figure out what concepts might work to achieve the result. So they get a jump start by figuring out what they did and using that you then engineer their competing product or next generation that builds upon the first.
For example: Over many years and trials, a development team discovers how to make a pharmaceutical drug that cures a cancer no other drug cures. It is registered with the FDA and its chemical composition is protected under a patent for 20 years. Another company wants to also manufacture and sell that drug as a generic version that is more affordable for patients, but to be more affordable they can’t spend years in development and trials. So instead they will take the new drug and use equipment to find out what’s the active and inactive ingredients are and their ratios, then they will try to find other inactive ingredients that don’t violate the patent but can still deliver the benefits of the same ratio of active ingredients, and once they figure out how to manufacture it they can offer it as an alternative to the innovative drug. By starting with the innovative drug and reverse engineering it, they are already starting with something they know will work because it has already been tested, and their efforts are much smaller to focus only on inactive ingredients and producing it, which means they will spend significantly less on development and can offer their product for a much lower cost and still be profitable.
It is basically copying and learning how to do something through copying. (ELI5)
Reverse engineering is, generally, a bit more sophisticated than simple counterfeiting – ie making an identical or very similar copy of a product and passing it off as your own.
It implies taking apart someone else’s product and trying to understand the basic methods and principles of how that product works. This knowledge can be used to improve your own product or design techniques.
Reverse engineering can be used more strictly to technology or technology related parts but it is generally used in a more broad form.
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