Reverse Engineering provides the opportunity to access the level of technology in your industry. It also measures the strengths and weaknesses of both your products and those of other manufacturers. When entering a new market, it provides the baseline which your product must meet, as well as an opportunity to become the leader in that market.

Metallurgical Associates, Inc. reverse engineering expertise fundamentally "de-constructs" a component, revealing not only its material composition, but the complete fabrication history that was applied to its production. Machined from billet, forged, cast, ground, case hardened, through hardened, plated, polished? The complete processing of the component is documented right down to heat treating temperatures and hold times.

The extensive "flux" in the current world economy means that the material or component supplier you are using today may be gone tomorrow, leaving you without a source and, sometimes, without specifications for an out-sourced component. Metallurgical Associates, Inc. Reverse Engineering provides the opportunity to evaluate a lost suppliers product and establish specifications with which to solicit bids from new prospective vendors. The materials analysis engineers at our Milwaukee Wisconsin materials testing laboratory have experience reverse engineering products from manufacturers around the world in nearly every industry.