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Very much so, as I'm a Chemical Engineering student. It puts into perspective just how much work goes into both creating say, a new pharmaceutical product, and how much MORE work goes into scaling up the process to make it.

There is an absurd amount of science and math that goes into any sort of scale up, be it medicine or beer. Alcohol is the best example, as it's something that most people take for granted, but is very easy to mess up when making large quantities of it.