It’s 3:42 p.m. on a Wednesday, and your phone lights up. Your customer isn’t calling to chat.

They’re calling because a shipment promised for Friday just slipped to next Tuesday. Their line is going to stop. Their people are going to stand around. Their customers are going to scream. And in about 60 seconds, you’re going to hear the question every manufacturer dreads:

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Right now, as tensions rise around Iran and the Persian Gulf, the headlines are doing what they always do: tracking missiles, drones, and the defense companies building them. That matters, obviously. But it’s not the whole story.

That’s because modern conflict isn’t constrained by weapons the way it used to be. It’s constrained by decisions.

Buffalo Metrology Inc. (BMI) was recently tasked with reverse engineering an 8 ft outside-diameter clarifier cover used in the mixing/agitation industry. The goal was to inspect the fracture on the tapered face of this component as part of a possible new cover fabrication.

Clarifier agitators are commonly used for groundwater treatment processes to act as a filter to remove…