Well, yeah - at the factory, you can throw as many people at it as you need to, to get it done. If you do that remotely with your own team, you can only (reasonably) send fewer folks out, and they're working in conditions that aren't their own (and without all the equipment and tools they might need).
I'm speaking from automation experience - we far prefer to delay shipment of a huge automated machine for a week if it means we can put all our guys on it at our shop, rather than kick it out the door and have 2 or 3 guys struggle on-site for weeks to make something work. As we often say, "No one will remember in 5 years that it was a week late - but they will remember if it doesn't work."
Further to this: As Tom keeps saying, "What really matters is when train 14 shows up." Delaying or pushing train 1 out of Thunder Bay earlier doesn't really matter, since the work in Millhaven (Kingston) is happening in parallel, unaffected (generally) by what's going in in TB.
I'm speaking from automation experience - we far prefer to delay shipment of a huge automated machine for a week if it means we can put all our guys on it at our shop, rather than kick it out the door and have 2 or 3 guys struggle on-site for weeks to make something work. As we often say, "No one will remember in 5 years that it was a week late - but they will remember if it doesn't work."
Further to this: As Tom keeps saying, "What really matters is when train 14 shows up." Delaying or pushing train 1 out of Thunder Bay earlier doesn't really matter, since the work in Millhaven (Kingston) is happening in parallel, unaffected (generally) by what's going in in TB.