Rverse Engineering Feedback

Product: Radio

Targeted Audience: 12 and up

Feedback:

Reverse Engineering is more than the concept of working backwards to reduce error; it is more about seeing how something is made and analyzing individual details. Reverse Engineering should consist of analyzation, annotation, and improvement. Reverse Engineering is so heavily practiced because it is bettering a product to make more money. Companies these days and throughout history have been about making money or some type of currency.  Reverse Engineering teaches one how to analyze human error and how to correct it. With Forward Engineering, you are simply going off basic instinct, making the errors as you go along. A company is able to keep its old customers when applying Reverse Engineering because they are listening to and implementing customers’ feedback to develop an innovation. When customers feel like their opinions are being heard, they odds of them are being a loyal customer increase.  At the same time the company is able to attract new customers because they may favor the improvements designed to meet current demands.

                The new radio my team developed consists of a combination of the old radio’s foundation and concept and advanced technology. The newest features of the radio are the motion sensor start button, the IPod dock, the alarm clock, simple square frame, and sleek smooth design. The innovation was designed to meet the request of the baby boomers and the teenagers of modern society.  Criteria gave us a head start because I already knew the components of the old radio, I knew what I and my team had to work with and I built off those items. Things that I know need to be upgraded right away were the CD player, the antenna (which is no longer used), the battery feature, and the color. We made the radio more vibrant by adding colors such as red, blue and black, we added a cord for charging; removing the batteries because we know no one uses battery as much anymore, and we made the radio compatibable with satellite which made the antenna obsolete. During the project we used the universal design process. We brainstormed, identified the problem, improved it, did more research, made more improvements and asked for a lot of feedback. Feedback, to me, is the basis of reverse engineering because you and your team are bettering the item based on customer opinions.

                 This project was extremely helpful because it focused on our ability to analyze manufactured product, take it apart, and develop an innovation. Our use of detail and elaboration was emphasized. Elaboration is adding your view to what is already stated or visible. The hardest part of the project was actually taking the radio apart; the rest came natural to us a team. I think reverse engineering is essential in the businesses of today because there is always room for improvement due to customers demanding advanced technology at an exponential rate.