Method of implementing multiple pump speeds for dispensing a viscous material

A method for dispensing multiple beads of viscous material from a moving dispenser onto a component carrier. The method includes providing calibrating an output characteristic, such as flow rate, for each of multiple different pump speeds, associating one of the pump speeds and a line speed with each of the multiple beads of viscous material, and moving the dispenser relative to the component carrier at the corresponding line speed while operating the pump at the corresponding pump speed for dispensing each bead of viscous material. The output characteristic associated with each calibrated pump speed may be determined from the weight of dispensed viscous material.