Shops cutting PM hours — how are you handling it

Got told this week our PM window is down to 2 hours per cell per month, which is just pushing failures down the road. For those who’ve switched shops, are you finding employers that schedule lube/torque checks and reducer oil sampling on a 500‑hour cadence? If so, what regions are you seeing solid pay for a robotics mechanic who lives and dies by uptime?

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Kept a ‘500‑hour’ lube/torque cadence by folding torque checks into changeovers and sending reducer oil to https://www.blackstone-labs.com; Upper Midwest shops (MN/WI) paid best when we posted MTBF before/after to justify the time. If your PM window stays at 2 hrs, kit a cart and slip micro‑PM into lull calls — what region are you in?

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