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Need something Reverse Engineered

Need something Reverse Engineered

Need something Reverse Engineered

(OP)
Hello all,
I have a small electrical product that receives a signal and then processes it further (fuel injector pulse width).  I need to find a place that can reverse engineer this unit so that I can design a better unit.

Any help with locating a company that can help with this would be appreciated.

Thanks,
BB

RE: Need something Reverse Engineered

Reverse eningeering is not the best way to make better products. It would probably be a lot better if you wrote up a spec which stresses the improvements you want to introduce and then let a good designer implement it.

Blind reverse engineering is usually not cheaper and the result is usually less than optimal because you will get a solution with old technology and usually things left in the circuit that needn't be there.

Reverse engineering also has some ethical implications..

Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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100 % recycled posting: Electrons, ideas, finger-tips have been used over and over again...

RE: Need something Reverse Engineered

The last company I worked at never wanted to bother with specifications.  While the engineering department wrote them, the rest of the facility wouldn't even bother to give them the time of day.  This was an attitude that stemmed from the top maangement on down.  They would, however, purchase a competitors unit through back channels and call it "the spec".  This resulted what I call the bumbling method of engineering where we would get 75% through a design only to have one of the 'key' players say that isn't what they wanted and we would have to go back to the drawing board.

Having experienced what it is like to attempt to design by reverse engineering, I agree 110% with Skogs; write your own spec and design to it.  Forget about the competitor's product.
 

RE: Need something Reverse Engineered

I've found that when reverse engineering is involved it means the way a product functions isn't truly understood... if you can't figure out what your own product needs to do, there's little point in figuring out what someone else does.

Dan - Owner
http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com

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