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There’s a pattern I’ve seen in manufacturing every time the economy tightens, and I’m seeing it again now. Nobody’s signing off on new capital equipment. The quotes go in, they get filed under “next year,” and the existing kit gets…

Every machine has a reliability curve, and it’s not flat. Equipment is at its most reliable somewhere in the middle of its life — past the early teething problems, before the wear sets in. After that, things start to drift.…