RepairFeedback names the passage through which knowledge generated during breakdown returns to the system that produced the failure and alters future design, procedure or specification. Ordinary repair restores operation and closes the incident. Feedback begins when the intervention becomes evidence about an upstream decision. Technicians, users and maintenance workers often encounter system behaviour more precisely than original designers, yet their knowledge remains local. The operator asks whether repair merely subsidises recurring failure or creates a route through which downstream experience can transform the next version.
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