Mexican MRO Procurement: What Nearshoring Didn't Solve A stamping line in Querétaro goes down on a Tuesday night. The maintenance supervisor identifies the failure within two hours — a servo drive on the transfer axis, European brand, installed when the line was relocated from Michigan. Corporate has the exact drive sitting in a crib in Ohio. On paper, that part is 1,400 miles away, which is nothing. In practice, it lands in the plant nine days later, and six of those days ha
