Guideline

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A guideline value is a measured value or a numerical value that you should adhere to and which you should follow without being forced to do so or threatened with penalties. It is a recommendation, but with a certain emphasis.

Compliance with a guideline value is desirable and should be aimed for. You cannot act at your own discretion, because then you do not need to provide a guideline. In contrast to the guideline value, a limit value must be strictly observed .

If you act against reference values ​​for no good reason, you may act negligently or with gross negligence. This can be indirectly punished, for example, in that insurance companies no longer compensate for damage.

A reference value can have tolerance limits. This includes measurement inaccuracies, among other things.

To differentiate between the modal auxiliary verbs must, should, may and can, there is DIN 820-2: 2000-01 Appendix E "Standardization work - Part 2: Design of standards". According to this linguistic rule, the verb "shall" roughly corresponds to a reference value.

Examples of guide values ​​are:

In control engineering, instead of the reference value , one speaks of the setpoint compared to the actual value .

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