Imitation is the Secret of Industrial Development. Who Achieved This?

Imitation is the Secret of Industrial Development. Who Achieved This?
Our subject; It is not ethical or illegal behavior, that is, we are not talking about "imitating a patented product" or "exactly imitating a branded product".

To imitate or explain it in terms of engineering discipline; “Reverse Engineering” is one of the fundamental initiatives and “force multipliers” of industrial development.

Our subject; It is not ethical or illegal behavior, that is, we are not talking about "imitating a patented product" or "exactly imitating a branded product".

However; Particularly Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China, which initiated and carried out industrial development very rapidly; Countries such as India, South Africa, Turkey and Mexico analyze and synthesize the conceptual design and detailed design of the industrial products they purchase, the designs of the main and sub-components within the product family and their functions within the integrated system, and continuously assemble and disassemble these systems in detail. They were able to perceive industrial products as similar and subsequently developed industrial products with low or high features that were similar to each other, and they were able to attribute "brand value" to many of these products.

Japan, which was an industrial giant before World War II, was left with a completely destroyed industrial ruin after World War II. He started his industrial awakening with automobile design and manufacturing in an environment where his guardian, the USA, loomed over him like a nightmare and even decided what and to what extent he could do.

The name of the first cars, Toyota's brand, comes from Toyoda, the surname of the company's founding family. However, according to a rumor that has become an urban legend; Americans so despised the Japanese, whose industrial infrastructure they left in ruins; They constantly say to the Japanese in a derogatory tone, "You can only make toy cars, not autos." For this reason, the first Japanese car that hit the roads in 1957 was named Toyota, inspired by toy auto. The same Toyota is the company that produces the most automobiles in the world after 50 years; It has dethroned American General Motors, and Toyota cars are sold the most in the world in the USA.

Yes; After World War II, the hard-working Japanese people began a magnificent industrial development adventure. They bought every industrial product they needed before the Westerners did, then they produced those products by "reverse engineering", then they developed their own unique designs and became the world leader in many products.

South Korea, Taiwan and China followed the same pattern.
R&D is an expensive process. If it is carried out aimlessly and without sufficient resources, it will cause harm rather than benefit.

R&D is an expensive process. If the added value of the goods and services we produce is not sufficient for us to allocate resources to R&D; Following the Japanese pattern would be the most pragmatic move. First, we must produce what we can produce at the minimum common level, provide sufficient benefit, collect the financing, and then allocate a part of that financing we have stocked for R&D. Otherwise, the R&D we will do is “Prof. It will be spent on "mental and nervous processes". Those who wish can try, and they can spend the capital that will barely turn the wheels of their businesses on R&D.

Countries and societies that have developed without completing their industrial development are rare.

Since the invention of the wheel, human beings have been It has been able to develop to the extent that it has been able to achieve industrial development, and it can develop with this method. Developed societies are also happy.

The catalyst of development is industry, the catalyst of industry is production, the activator of production is imitation, and the accelerator is R&D. R&D; It requires money and human (creative, knowledgeable, experienced, hardworking) resources. If it is imitation; It is the trigger initiator of R&D.

Conclusion:

We should not hesitate to imitate (reverse engineer) the world's arrows, bows, locomotives, automobiles, planes, etc. They were not invented individually from scratch. Countries/companies; They did not spend time, money and effort to reinvent a new industrial product that someone had made, that is, they did not “invent America over and over again”. They first imitated something new that someone had done, and then they tried to improve it and sometimes they improved it.