245Small-Scale Trials
• The whole team needs to be on board with this approach. Team
members who specialize in testing the nished product can
become discouraged with nothing to experiment on.
• This phase should not continue for a long time, especially if there
is some question about the validity of your model. Create com-
plete prototypes and make sure that the attribute testing agrees
with the FFU targets.
• Look for ways to mathematically simulate the industrial process to
predict whether the experimental results will scale up to a commer-
cially viable size.
• Simulations only give a partial answer while failing to model
other process aspects that are commercially important, such as
human touch and feel attributes. Treat this technique ...