Step 3 of 5 · Onsite parts, zero wait
Critical Spares
The repair takes 45 minutes. The part takes six weeks. Which one decides your downtime?
Instead of two to fourteen weeks waiting on the factory.
The problem
Most long outages are really parts problems dressed up as machine problems.
The diagnosis took an hour. The approval took a day. Then everyone stood around for weeks, waiting on a part. That part could have been sitting on your shelf, checked and labeled, for a fraction of what the outage cost.
We will talk you out of buying parts you do not need.
That sentence is the whole strategy. A parts vendor wants to sell you a long list. We want to sell you uptime per dollar. The difference shows up in what we leave off the list. Every recommendation comes with the reasoning: the risk it cuts, and why the items we dropped did not make it.
The math
Math that makes the decision. A real one.
| The event, as it ran | No spares onsite | Onsite spares |
|---|---|---|
| Main repair after the power outage | $29,559 | $29,559 |
| Board replacements after it | 5 more trips, one alarm at a time | Installed first visit |
| Total repair bill | $64,833 | One bill, one visit |
| Time until fully repaired | Roughly three months | Days, not months |
| Aside from the compressors | Every board waited on its own order | All could have been onsite |
A real event at a North Bay school campus. This equipment reports faults one at a time. Fix the first, and only then does the next one show up.
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The part that stings
Aside from the compressors, every one of those boards could have gone in on the first visit if they had been on a shelf onsite. The parts were never rare. The wait was the cost. That is the whole case for critical spares, made by one school campus in one season.
The options
Three stock strategies. Pick the downtime you can carry.
| Posture | What is on the shelf | Best fit when |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum Critical | The most likely low-cost, high-risk failures. The most outage protection per dollar. | You want practical protection without a big parts inventory. |
| High Impact | Adds the parts that cut long downtime the most. | One failure would hurt tenants, schedules, or operations. |
| Max Uptime | Adds backup stock and key assemblies for sites that can least afford downtime. | An outage clearly costs more than keeping the parts. |
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The deliverables
The parts plan
| Deliverable | What it does for you | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Spares Exposure Review and Verified Asset Summary | Where a missing part could stretch downtime, plus a verified record of what is installed. | $850 |
| Tiered Spares List | All three posture options, ready for approval. | $600 |
| Priority Rationale | Why each item made the list and why the ones we cut did not. | $300 |
| Budgetary Pricing and Verification Notes | Budget numbers, re-checked before purchase, with fit confirmed in writing. | $500 |
| Inventory Control Plan | Storage, labels, a usage log, and when to reorder. | $350 |
| Owner Review Meeting | Plain-English recommendations. You choose the posture. | $200 |
| Total, included with Max CARE, Training bundle, or standalone | $2,800 | |
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The Right-Part Guarantee
Every recommended part is checked against a verified record of what is installed before purchase. If we spec the wrong part, we replace it at our cost. Pricing is budgetary until re-checked. Spares never replace qualified diagnosis. They just shorten the wait.
Find out which part would keep you down for weeks
Current customers: ask for the Spares Exposure Review. New to CCMS: the free Health Assessment checks your spares exposure first.
Book your free Health Assessment
Three assessment slots open each month, first come first served. A senior technician performs every one. Takes about two minutes to request.
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