I’ve been around industrial manufacturing machines long enough to remember when half the troubleshooting was done by ear. You’d stand next to a machine, listen to it hum, clank, or whine, and just know something was off. These days, everything has sensors and dashboards, which is great, but I still trust my gut more than a blinking warning light sometimes. That instinct didn’t come overnight, and honestly, it came from breaking a few things I probably shouldn’t have. When I first started working with industrial equipment, I thought machines were either “working” or “broken.” That’s it. Turns out there’s a…