The anatomy of a single-source failure

When a sole-source connector went into bankruptcy, the first line stopped within nine days and the last within five weeks. The interesting number was not the ninety-six hours of downtime but the thirty-one days of decision time: who could sign an alternate qualification, and who believed the risk map.

Resilience is mostly an authority question. The plants that recovered fastest had one person with the standing to start qualification before the incident report was finished.