Looking for that breakthrough

2016 has ushered a new aspiration on my behalf, as an engineer it has always been my goal and aim to achieve a breakthrough something that i believe all engineers should aspire to, looking at the problem that we have in our process it has always been my goal that i can achieve a major reduction in our particle problem in our IMD layer tools, we have received feedback from our tool supplier that the low gas flow region that we are running at is susceptible to high particle formation, from there on i have set to optimize the process by running at a higher gas flow, but the problem that i have is after running a few runs it is very difficult to statistically show that a higher gas flow provides a better process in terms of particle performance. So for 2016 i would set a goal to setup a method on how to quantify a process that has a better particle performance process