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by p_l 908 days ago
The background to this is European Union mandating unbundling of maintenance from purchase contracts.

Specifically, it's been no longer possible for manufacturers to claim that maintenance documentation is trqde secret or otherwise not possible to be made available to third parties, which opened the door for third party workshops to do deeper maintenance.

And the train manufacturer started losing tenders for maintenance.
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roughly 908 days ago
Yeah, no part of the rest of this story suggests the charitable interpretation is the right one. I can see a case for being more aggressive about ensuring large machines get serviced before they can do harm, but I don’t actually think that’s what this company was doing.
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p_l 908 days ago
It's part of their PR.

When original issues were big in media, they made PR campaign good other workshops were incompetent.

To compare in aviation terms, it was like plane manufacturer claiming Part 145 certified MRO with the necessary type certificates weren't good enough and you should only service at manufacturer - despite having outright bought the machine in total (no leasing)

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