#Product Trends
Reducing Design Time for Linear Motion Systems
Design time can be reduced while ensuring durability and high performance.
Reducing design time is critical in engineering because the result is lower costs and faster time to market. Design time often includes a number of non-value-added activities such as re-design, over-design, or scope creep that can be minimized by thoroughly understanding all of the application criteria and verifying calculations and analysis via parametric testing of components, modules, and full assemblies with data acquisition equipment, and proving out projected performance results with testing.
Capture as much of the pertinent application information as possible in the beginning to avoid having to go back and repeat portions, if not the entire design process. Be wary and prepared for scope change. Use theoretical calculations and analyses to determine the best initial designs, and then compare them with test measurements of the key performance attributes on actual equipment. Confirm bench test results by performing cycle tests under actual field conditions.
