Replies to post #17846 on Bourque Industries Inc (BORK)

[Flatcat]

One can only hope that JB used good engineering discipline that produced a laboratory notebook.

Trial and error is old school - like Edison. Present day engineering uses Design of Experments. To get a rough idea about how it is done look here: https://www.moresteam.com/toolbox/design-of-experiments.cfm? or here: http://thequalityportal.com/q_know02.htm .

Design of Experments minimizes time, number of experments, and cost.

[Scorpitron]

I too was wondering about this exact same thing. The notebooks would/should provide distinction between the processes that B.I. could use as proof that any particular mix can/can't be used for ITAR-related applications. Also, the patents themselves might possibly even shed some light on how the mixes differ among applications... The body armor patent/process itself looks pretty specific, especially with the mixing. I can't imagine how complicated it would be to try to get any of that right without having the exact mix, but I'm no scientist, lol




Fever wrote:
Most/all companies, including startups, should follow SOP and hopefully have a documentation control system in place. Including a BOM, assembly procedure, test procedures ...etc.
Also when I worked in R&D it was required to have an engineering lab notebook documenting all tests and notes for each engineering application . Even startup companies should have these notebooks that are assigned and logged when any engineering notebook is handed out.
The former is the renult of the engineering notes to have reliable and consistant mfg. of such products. I am not sure if Bourque had adhered to these, crucial, guidelines. They must have applied for patents to protect themselves, therefore I probably sound like a dope here?
I get the impression that some of the Kryron mix was trial and error.

But the ingredients, including quantitys etc.., used for each experiment hopefully was was documented accurately.


John