Imagine you are developing a new product that is six weeks away from introduction. The manufacturing department has just spent 60 hours to produce the first batch of 20 prototypes. The parts are sent for painting. You are excited when the parts look perfect leaving the paint booth. Anticipation builds as you invite the vice president of sales to see the prototypes as soon as they exit the cure oven.
The moment has arrived; and as the parts emerge from the oven, they do not look like they are supposed to. The coating looks great, but the parts are deformed. The vice president of sales shakes his head and walks back to his office, and you are left with a major headache - at best.