In virtually any application, scale up is a critical process that impacts your business in a multitude of ways, from proper planning of plant floor design and equipment configuration, to operating procedures, to the net operating-and capital-cost impact on the bottom line. In laboratory-scale trials, misjudging the time required to achieve mixing equilibrium by just a few seconds can ultimately cost your company millions of dollars, not to mention wasted time and effort and increased wear-and-tear on the equipment, during commercial-scale production. The laboratory tabletop HSM usually represents the first step in exploring the particular benefits of rotor/stator technology for a given application. This familiar laboratory tool is generally equipped with a variety of interchangeable attachments that allow it to operate in a variety of mixing modes — as a conventional HSM, as a propeller mixer, and as a high speed “saw tooth” disperser.