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We Kept Blaming the Motors. The Real Problem Was How We Ordered Them.

An office administrator at a 70-person machine shop spent two years chasing motor failures before realizing the breakdowns weren't a product problem — they were a purchasing process problem. A breakdown of the real cost of buying motors as commodities, and what changed after we started specifying them properly.

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