Reverse Engineering: A Potential Solution for Post Covid-19 Effects on Indian Engineering & Manufacturing Sector

The Novel Coronavirus or the Covid-19 has put an major impact on the Manufacturing sector, Covid-19 outbreak is affecting supply chains, and disrupting manufacturing operations around the world. The worst is yet to come as china’s relation with India in the current situation may cause more disturbances on raw material, machinery, and technical support of relevant industries
For now, we can't resent over Covid19 effects as we have another challenge of being self-reliant which is a driving force during the Covid19 phase. The disturbance of the export-import supply chain, price hike, and unavailability of technology, are the major challenges which we are facing right now and it could continue for a while as medical science hasn't been able to provide vaccination for COVID 19.
To overcome these challenges in the field of Engineering and Manufacturing, Mechanical engineers can play a role by using various Reverse Engineering Technologies.
Reverse engineering plays a vital role in the branch of the mechanical design and manufacturing-based industry. This technique has been widely recognized as an important technique in the product design cycle. In a regular computerized manufacturing environment, the operation order usually starts from the product design and ends with machine operation to convert raw material into final products. It is often essential to reproducing a CAD model of the existing parts using any digitization techniques, when original drawings or documentation are not available and used for analysis and modifications are required to construct an improved product design. In reverse engineering approach the important steps involved, are characterizations of geometric models, related surface representations, segmentation, surface fitting of simple, free-form shapes, and creating accurate CAD models.
The COVID19 scenario is a time to review on reverse engineering methodology and its application areas related to product design development. The product redesign and research with reverse engineering will largely reduced the production period and costs in product manufacturing industries.
Reverse engineering is the process of obtaining a geometric CAD model from measurements acquired by contact or non-contact scanning technique of an existing physical model.
We need to focus more on reverse Engineering to recreate and manufacture existing machinery and then optimize them for better application and for better productivity.
Various techniques of reverse engineering are available like 3D Scanning, CMM Machines, Rapid Prototype Techniques.
Using non-contact 3D laser scanning, CMM, 3D documentation solutions, integrated 3D modeling processes into a single step. Our non-contact measurement solutions are Perfect for multiple reverse engineering applications including the development of virtual simulations, rapid prototyping in plastics manufacturing and composite surface inspections
We can conclude that various techniques of reverse engineering and focused research can help overcome the short supply of various parts and machinery.

CREDIT : A BLOG BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING [CIST]

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