Difference between 設定する and 調整する

Question

Sorry, I don't have any example sentences...
Anyway, usually I heard the word 設定{せってい} in the meaning of "adjusting something". But now, in the factory, I have come across the phrase "圧力{あつりょく}を調整{ちょうせい}する".
Could you please define the difference in usage between 設定{せってい}する and 調整{ちょうせい}する?

Answer 1

I think the difference can be summarised as:

• 設定 - to set or configure

• 調整 - to set or configure towards a desired/expected outcome or value

I think 設定 is to set it up so that it works, while 調整 has a goal in mind.

Looking up some online dictionaries:

設定:

• (ディジタル大辞泉)
  ある物事や条件をつくり定めること
• (大辞林 第三版)
  ある目的に沿って，新たに物事をもうけ定めること

調整:

(大辞林 第三版)
1. 調子の悪いものに手を加えてととのえること
2. ある基準に合わせてととのえること。過不足なくすること。

設定 means to set up or establish according to some standard/condition that was decided.

調整 means to adjust it from a undesirable or bad state, back in order to a desired state. Or in the second explanation, to adjust something away from being too much or too little in order to conform with an established standard.

Answer 2

設定 often implies you start from tabula rasa.

調整 is more like optimization.