Develop successfully innovative processes in the metallurgical industry

Abstract

In the metallurgical industry, very few innovative processes reached the industrial stage. The purpose of this article is to identify the key principles for monitoring an industrialization process, and to assess their validity. Mastering the industrialization process is a key to hopefully succeed in developing efficiently an innovative and competitive process; according to industry characteristics and past cases of process developments, there might be a “virtuous” six-step industrialization process for metallurgy; the review of present industrialization processes within two metallurgical routes tends to confirm that point.