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Specifications don’t always tell the whole story

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Specifications don’t always tell the whole story

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  • Author: Reed Farrar, Bing Kongmebhol, Thomas Bartholomäus
When choosing a motion-control product for a particular application, products are commonly chosen based on the specifications supplied by the manufacturer. These specifications, however, are often gathered under ideal conditions and rarely replicate an actual real-life environment. Hence, the specifications may not be an accurate indication of how the device performs outside the test laboratory. Moreover, a wide range of values can be obtained for a given specification in the same test setup, depending on the methodology and mathematics used. So how the equipment specification is obtained—from environmental factors to methodology—is actually as important as the number itself.

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