I work in a hospital and I do FEA for them for surgical procedures so I don’t know if it counts as industrial research but for us, we aim to publish by next year but it can be extended. The thing is that we want to make sure that the results are valid and applicable. Since the research can affect the lives of many patients and surgeons, we want to make sure that the results are repeatable and the simulations do correlate with the events that transpire in real life. With this, I feel that they have given me enough time and they understand what it takes to make a good research. It is also important that you communicate your schedule and timeline clearly to your supervisors because they can give you input on whether some parts of the work can be let go for the mean time and focus on other things.