Not every problem is worth fixing “the right way”. The internal cost of wasting a packaging box (a few cents a day) is probably hugely surpassed by the value o

Not every problem is worth fixing “the right way”. The internal cost of wasting a packaging box (a few cents a day) is probably hugely surpassed by the value of increasing quality. You have to consider the opportunity cost of the Root Cause Analysis and the potential fix, along with shutting down the line to implement it. Compare that to the cost of the fan fix. Just because you could do Root Cause Analysis doesn’t mean you should go through with it. YAGNI