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Critique of the Generic "$5,600-per-Minute Downtime" Cost Statistic

A commentary piece argues that the widely cited downtime-cost statistic is a generic average that does not reflect any individual company's actual financial exposure, cautioning against using it to justify reliability spending decisions.

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