Reverse Engineering

Produce Legacy Components Cost-Effectively

Quad City Manufacturing Laboratory (QCML) offers reverse engineering services in design, production and technology transfer to combat the inherent challenges of sourcing legacy parts for essential equipment, including:

• No availability of replacement parts
• No existing models, drawings or part specifications

QCML’s reverse engineering services can utilize either 3D scanning technology or touch-probe technology to generate a point cloud of a component that is being reverse engineered. The point cloud can then be used to create a 3D solid model of the part, which can be used for:

• 3D metal printing a usable part
• Design reference/Instructions for conventional manufacturing techniques
• Enabling revision of the legacy part without remodeling it from scratch

When no models, drawings or part specifications exist, QCML provides expert reverse engineering services to cost-effectively produce legacy components.