There's a moment in almost every balloon catheter development program where the real test happens. It's not a burst test. It's not a compliance audit. It's the moment when something doesn't go as planned. A wall thickness is off spec, a new material behaves differently than expected, a client's timeline shifts by three weeks and you need a real answer, from a real engineer, right now. At most OEMs, that moment triggers a chain of escalations: your project manager emails an in