[Themaintainers] Looking for Reverse Engineering for Maintenance examples

[Melle Zijlstra]

Hi all,

Hope all are well, wherever you are. I'm co-teaching a third year 
Mechanical Engineering/ Integrated Design Engineering course on Reverse 
Engineering at the University of Bath in the UK. The course is largely 
innovation-oriented ("what can we learn from taking existing/ 
competitors' products apart when developing future products?"). This 
year we want to slot in a lecture on Reverse Engineering for Maintenance 
and Future-proofing (working title) as well. I'll talk about different 
steps in the systematic analysis of existing products and systems, and 
tools and techniques that can be used in the process.

We're teaching the course online this year unfortunately, so we're 
trying to keep the lectures short. To make sure our students have enough 
material to work with, we're compiling a list of interesting literature 
and YouTube/ Vimeo videos that students can read and watch in their own 
time.

I have two questions:
- I read somewhere, it may well have been on this list, that 70% of all 
engineers work in maintenance-related jobs. Before I quote this figure 
to my students without any evidence, does anyone happen to have a source?
- Can you point me towards interesting examples and literature related 
to Reverse Engineering for Maintenance and Futureproofing that I could 
use? I'm interested in both 1-off examples (e.g., a machine with 
obsolete bearings that needs to be modified so contemporary equivalents 
can be used) and remanufacturing/ industrial scale examples. I'm 
particularly interested in medical device design examples, a domain I 
know preciously little about. Ventilators have been a bit of a hot topic 
lately, perhaps someone has examples of how older machines have been 
modernised (e.g. with better monitoring functionalities) recently?

I'm of course happy to share the lecture slides or video (not sure on 
the format yet) with others who may be teaching similar courses.

Many thanks and have a great weekend,
Melle

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melle zijlstra         university of bath
                        phd researcher | department of computer science
                        teaching fellow | department of mechanical engineering

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