Typically, the flow of costs is relevant with manufacturing companies whereby accountants must quantify what costs are in raw materials, work in process, finished goods inventory, and cost of ...

This may be a pragmatic approach, but it can result in one-off solutions, rather than integrating powder testing into improving understanding of process behavior for raw material selection and process ...

The manufacturing production process can be pictured like a river. It's not unusual to hear people involved in production make frequent reference to "upstream" and "downstream" parts of the process.