Reverse engineering is the method of identifying and analyzing the materials and processing used to manufacture components in order to create products with identical properties. By determining material properties such as chemical composition, heat treatment, coating type, and coating thickness, reverse engineering can be accomplished.

• Chemical Analysis
  • Identifying the materials’ chemical composition
• Metallography/Microstructure Evaluation
  • Cast
  • Forged
  • Extruded
  • Surface treatments (nitride, carburized, etc.)
• Heat Treatment
  • Hardness or microhardness traverse
  • Effective case depth
  • Microstructure
• Coatings
  • Plating
  • Cladding
  • Anodized, phosphate, conversion coatings, etc.