288 Process Techniques for Engineering High-Performance Materials
noise. Information, questions, and advice arrive electronically from a
management group that is anxious to optimize its investment in your trial.
Development engineers must constantly lter information as they drive
the process toward the desired goal. While doing so, they must be ready to
adjust their plan.
Dealing with the unexpected during plant trials:
• Be exible and opportunistic. Problems and transients represent
opportunities to capture samples of “off-spec” materials for later
testing. Establish which situations can be sold as “wide spec” and
which cannot. Defective samples may make excellent visual exam-
ples of what not to do. They might later comprise a worst-to-best ...