
308 Process Techniques for Engineering High-Performance Materials
Summary
• The manufacturing group must ensure that development trials will
not damage process equipment, injure employees, or disrupt the
production that follows the trial.
• Running development trials on production equipment requires far
different procedures compared to running laboratory-scale or pilot-
scale experiments. The risks, rewards, and costs are all greater for
large-scale development.
• Product development trials should be run in close consultation with
the production management to ensure that the process will be com-
mercially viable. They must ensure that their orga ...