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In a busy production environment, CNC preventative maintenance is often one of the first things pushed aside. Machines are running. Orders are stacked. Skilled operators are stretched thin. On paper, everything looks fine.

Until it is not.

At Altech Process & Control, we see the downstream impact of skipped maintenance every week across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley. Emergency calls that start with “It was running fine yesterday” usually trace back to small, preventable issues that were allowed to grow into full production-stopping failures.

If you run a shop, a plant, or anything with moving parts big enough to ruin your week, you already know this: machines have personalities. Some behave. Some don’t. Some are saints until the moment they decide not to be. And usually, that moment comes at the absolute...

When production is running full tilt, nobody wants to hit pause for a safety upgrade. It feels like throwing money at something that slows things down. But here’s the truth: ignoring safety until it’s urgent costs a lot more in the long run. A safety system retrofit...

When it comes to running a safe and productive shop, machine safety can’t be something you only think about after an incident. The reality is, even the best equipment becomes dangerous if it is not properly guarded. That is where the right machine guarding solutions...

When your CNC machine goes down, production stops, and every minute costs you money. Whether you’re dealing with an unexpected breakdown or ongoing performance issues, you need a service partner who can respond quickly, fix the problem, and keep your operations...