Economic data Intermediates synthesis

In a situation where faster data availability helps to optimize the production process - by enabling me to analyze more experiments (e.g. stress samples under a variety of conditions, intermediate products of a synthesis process etc.) and thus underpin my conclusions, if the time for method development can/must be cut by a factor of five, or if I do not have to deal with difficult matrix, then I would take the plunge sooner rather than later. The potential scientific and economic benefits are immense. 

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