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insurance spares (An insurance items is a spare part that will be used to replace a failed identical part in an operating equipment whose penalty cost for downtime is very high. Hence, by definition, it is an insurance against such failures for which the down time costs are very high. They do not become obsolete until the parent equipment is retired from service no matter if they do not move for many years.  proz.com Alexander Demidov) | |||