A production line goes down on a Tuesday afternoon because a communication module inside a control cabinet has failed. Maintenance identifies the part within twenty minutes. Procurement takes three days just to get a firm quote, because the OEM is based overseas and the part isn't stocked domestically. By the time the component arrives, the plant has lost more in downtime than the part itself was worth ten times over. This is not a rare event. It's a routine one, and it's the
