In the metallurgical industry, very few innovative processes reached
the industrial stage. The purpose of this article is to identify the key
principles for monitoring an industrialization process, and to assess
their validity. Mastering the industrialization process is a key to hopefully
succeed in developing efficiently an innovative and competitive process; according
to industry characteristics and past cases of process developments, there might
be a “virtuous” six-step industrialization process for metallurgy; the review
of present industrialization processes within two metallurgical routes tends
to confirm that point.