Field notes

Notes from the market: inspection failures, lead-time surprises, procurement paths that worked. Each note is a real situation pattern from the field.

• A switchboard just failed inspection: the next 30 days
  2026-09-06
  What the owner is about to be quoted, the three questions to ask before accepting a 30-50 week lead time, and the assembled-board path that delivers a replacement in 6-10 weeks.
  LV switchboardinspectionassembled path