Simple Chart: Component Classifications (Revised)

Weight is a quality mentioned in Industrial and Competition official descriptions. Weight is not yet featured in Star Citizen.

Maintenance is a quality mentioned on Industrial and Civilian official descriptions. From current info on Engineering, I've listed that as "Degradation Rate."

Civilian is "Easy to Own. Easy to access. Nothing to worry about for most. You want to upgrade if you want to specialize."

Military is the "More Power" with the "Least Downsides."

Competition and Industrial is "Extreme Power" with "Extreme Downsides". Your Race Car needs a Pit Crew and Burns White Hot. Your Flying Factory is as slow as one, and can be seen from across the system.

Stealth is "Invisible at all costs". Being unseen is a very powerful advantage in many roles both in and out of combat.

Data I gathered from StarCitizen.tools.

This is all my best guess. I can see some going up or down a point or two, but otherwise, I'm confident this is what the goals are.

Also, this is before "Grade" of the Component.