Reverse Engineering - History

Reverse engineering was often used during the Second World War and the Cold War. It is often used by military in order to copy other nation’s technology, devices or information, or parts of which, have been obtained by regular troops in the fields or by intelligence operations. In the last few years, increased computational power, more computer memory, and high-speed contact or non-contact scanning devices, discrete geometry has gained increasing importance in automotive design, manufacturing, and quality assurance. In recent year, the impact of reverse engineering in manufacturing industry is increase day per day and it also plays a significant role in promoting industrial evolution by just introducing the expensive products and stimulating additional competition. However, the average life cycle of modern inventions is much shorter. To accommodate this rapid rate of reinvention of modern machinery and instruments, reverse engineering provides a high-tech tool to speed up the reinvention process for future industrial evolution. Reverse engineering plays a significant role in the aviation industry primarily because of the following reasons: maturity of the industry, advancement of modern technologies, and market demands. From the dawn of the aviation industry in the early 1900s to its hardware maturity with the development of jet aircraft in the 1950s, the aviation industry revolutionized the modes of transportation in about 50 years.