Reverse engineering is a systematic process used to dissect and analyze a product or system in order to understand its design, architecture, and functionality. The primary goal is to gain insights into how something works or is constructed without access to its original design documentation or knowledge. This involves using various techniques such as disassembly, imaging, and 3D laser scanning to uncover detailed information about the product's components, materials, and operating principles. 
  

Through the reverse engineering process, CAD models and engineering drawings are created to remanufacture legacy products, make changes or improvements in the product's design, preserve and document information, validate competitor designs, replicate unique designs, and identify processes to make the product more economical.

• Exploring existing products: Backward engineering allows you to explore products that already exist.

• Repairing existing products: Companies can repair an existing product using this engineering technique. This can also help them identify common errors in a product's design and learn how to fix those for future projects.

• Recreating a product: One of the primary goals of reverse engineering is recreating a product without using a blueprint. Using this process, companies can make an old and outdated product, a less expensive version of a product, an obsolete machine part and a competitor's product.

• Conducting failure analysis: You can use reverse engineering to analyze why a product did not work as intended. Examining a faulty product through backward engineering can help you identify its damaged parts and repair them.

• Performing competitor analysis: An organization can reverse engineer a competitor's product to understand how it differs from other products in the market.

• Reducing product development costs: By understanding how a competitor manufactures a product, a company can develop cheaper alternative solutions.