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Small-Scale Trials
How do we use small-scale equipment to evaluate process options and create proto-
type samples? How do we identify the best process alternatives to commercialize our
new product ideas?
… the seeds for failure are sown very early in the life of a particular
system—during the concept development and design phases.
Professor Robert Bea
In the early 1830s, there was a great surge of interest in creating products
from latex rubber in both the United States and Europe. Rubber was a mira-
cle polymer from South America that outperformed leather, oil-impregnated
fabrics, waxes, and tars in many exible waterproong, gasket, and seal ...