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If two machines in the same room fail the same week, stop looking at the machines.

27 SEP 2026OBSERVATION

Shared supply, shared floor, shared air, shared cleaning routine, shared user. Coincidence is available as an explanation and is almost always the weakest one on the list. The room is a component.

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