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SpeedDemon20 posted...

In my experience, you want as many similar designs as possible because the people doing the installation will have an easier time.

Thank you for that reminder. I often look only at the numbers and am occasionally reminded by my supervisor and other engineers to keep in mind the field aspect of a project. Friend of mine works as an airplane mechanic and he loves ragging about engineers who design something without field conditions in mind.

We have had projects that were small enough where cost wise it may not have made much difference between multiple designs that a one-size-fit-all approach made sense. We have also had larger projects where designing for the worst case and applying everywhere would be too expensive so clients would ask us to size components accordingly depending on usage.

Thinking bout it a bit, some manufacturers might simply have standard components that they would commonly use even said components are more than capable of meeting a client's need. Said manufacturers do offer smaller/lighter/weaker components but sometimes still default to their standard.

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