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A Sustainable Reverse Engineering Process
Reverse Engineering
Sustainability
Product Development
Product Life cycle
Human Cognition
Geometric Modeling
Reverse engineering mimics critical features of an existing object to create its accurate or enhanced virtual/physical models. It is thus useful in creating the digital footprints of an object. It requires sophisticated devices, computing facilities, and high human skills. Thus, a reverse engineering process becomes sustainable if it is less dependent on sophisticated devices, computations, and human skills. From this point of view, this study presents a sustainable reverse engineering process consisting of five steps. The first step describes a given object using some elementary geometric shapes. The second step represents the elementary geometric shapes using some simulated planner point clouds. The third step creates coordinated point clouds by combining the point clouds of the second step. The fourth step creates a solid model using an off-the-shelf CAD package. The fifth step creates a 3D printed prototype using the solid CAD model. The process is compared with the traditional scanned point cloud-based reverse engineering. The comparison shows that it is free from computational complexity, creates comparatively accurate models, and works very fast. Integrating the presented reverse engineering process with a product life cycle engineering can contribute to sustainable product development.
journal article
Elsevier B.V.
2021
application/pdf
Procedia CIRP 28th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering
98
517
522
2212-8271
https://kitami-it.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/2000209/files/1-s2.0-S2212827121001748-main(2).pdf
eng
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2021.01.144
(c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0)
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