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Actually, figuring out such problems is within a manufacturing engineer's job description. I've assisted one of those guys. Sometimes, we'd just be going to vendors our company purchased from to fix problems that came up after they laid off the people who knew what they were doing.
This. More to the point: Ideally, it's not the manufacturing engineer's job to fix problems, but rather to prevent them. If problems arise in a process that has been historically stable, it suggests that inadequate preventive controls were in place. So it is an engineering problem.
Because the motors aren't as reliable as in the past. Unless it's something about storage or shipping, I suppose. It may not be a change that was done on purpose. Might be something getting out of adjustment.
There has been a hypothesis floated in another thread that the D12-3 CATOs seem to be associated with Hobby Lobby inventory disproportionately, so there could be something about the handling &/or storage in that channel.