Developing sustainable approaches to manufacture is a critical global problem concerned by people with a lack of resource on Planet Earth. An increasing interest in product take-back, product recovery and the redistribution has been concerned increasingly. Such as green remanufacturing, in particular, has a strong history of product recovery operations in the automotive sector. It can be both more profitable and less harmful to the environment compare with conventional manufacturing. However, the application of green remanufacturing in structural machinery didn?t draw attention. This paper provides the background of green remanufacturing together with the way of product recovery reverse engineering theory. Such as, study target, content, methods, design order, key technology and application of reverse engineering. This method can measure and evaluate wear of machine parts which have complicated curved surface quantitatively, accurately and visualization ally. Reverse engineering methods and technologies play an important role in many software engineering tasks of product model. The significance of this research contributes to theory, to industry and to future research in the field.
