Service 01 · Reverse engineering
We recover, review and refresh the underlying engineering from legacy or obsolete products. You get files you can manufacture & certify rebuilt from a physical sample, allowing you to design a replacement, import into new markets or refresh the product.
Bethnal Green, East London · IP boundaries advised before we start
When teams call us
Case A · Obsolescence
You still depend on a controller, instrument or sub-assembly. The supplier may be gone, or the part is now end-of-life. We recover the schematic and bill of materials, then design a drop-in replacement that keeps the system running.
Case B · Market entry
You want to sell an imported product in a new market, which requires a detailed technical file. We reverse engineer and test the product to produce a report to the level of detail required by type-certification processes.
Deliverables
The result stays portable and yours, because we work entirely in open tools such as KiCad. Design-and-source escrow can be arranged through an independent UK escrow agent, so continuity is assured.
How it runs
We spend 30 minutes on the hardware, the constraint and the deadline. Then we say plainly whether reverse engineering is the right route.
Before any work starts, you get a written scope. It names what we recover, the IP boundaries we have checked, and the test that defines success. The cost is fixed in the same document.
We rebuild the schematic, BOM and layout, then verify the reconstruction against the physical board on our bench.
You receive the files, test evidence and a written summary. Design-and-source escrow can be arranged where continuity matters.
Questions
Yes. That is the typical case: an obsolete or undocumented board with no Gerbers, schematics or BOM. We recover the schematic, bill of materials and, where needed, board layout, and validate it against the physical hardware.
Yes. We reverse engineer an imported product to produce the technical documentation needed for regulatory and market-entry purposes – for example to support entry into markets such as South Korea – including the engineering detail underlying conformity files.
Reverse engineering for interoperability, repair, obsolescence management and regulatory documentation is legal in the UK; the Trade Secrets (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2018 expressly permit observation, study, disassembly and testing of a lawfully-obtained product, and patent and design rights restrict only copying, not study or measurement. We work only on hardware where you hold the necessary rights, and advise on IP boundaries before starting.
A documented schematic and BOM, optional manufacturable design files for a compatible replacement, test evidence, and a written summary. Design and source escrow can be arranged through an independent UK escrow agent where continuity matters.
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