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General maintenance

The steady work that prevents the 2am call.

3 min readUpdated Aug 2026

What this service covers

The steady work that prevents the emergency calls: preventive maintenance routes, conveyor inspections, equipment lubrication, component replacement, structural steel repair, and outage/shutdown support labor. Working supervisors, millwrights, welders and mechanics — dispatched from Northern and Southern California across CA, NV, OR and WA.

What a PM route looks like

  • Built around your equipment. The inspection route covers what you run, at the interval your duty demands.
  • Documented. Findings written down, ranked by what will bite first — a punch list, not a shrug.
  • Backed by parts. Wear parts on Fontana shelves mean findings become fixes on the same visit or the next one.
  • Escalation ready. When a finding is urgent, the emergency crew is the same company — no handoff.

Prefer to keep maintenance in-house?

We support your team instead: parts supply, engineering help when a system needs rethinking, and crews on call for the jobs that need extra hands. See ACTAssure™ for the fully scheduled version.

A PM route that actually prevents

CadenceWhat gets doneWhat it catches
Daily (operators)Look and listen on rounds — new noises, new piles, new smellsThe failure that started last night
WeeklyWalkdown: cleaners, skirting, tracking, buildup, guardsWear parts drifting out of adjustment
MonthlyTorque checks, lubrication route, belt and lagging conditionThe slow looseners and the slow wearers
QuarterlyAlignment, structural, electrical connections, flow aids fire-testThe stuff that fails annually and expensively

Signs your PM program is theater

  • Checklists pass while breakdowns climb — the list checks boxes, not condition.
  • Same part fails on schedule — you’re replacing symptoms on a subscription.
  • PM is the first thing skipped when busy — then it isn’t a program, it’s a hobby.
  • Nobody trends anything — data from inspections that goes nowhere protects nothing.

What to have ready

  • Equipment list — or just the top ten pain machines
  • Breakdown history — whatever exists, even if it’s tribal memory
  • Your crew reality — what your people can own vs. what you want contracted

Frequently asked questions

What's the difference between this and ACTAssure™?

General maintenance is work you book as needed — inspections, repairs, outage labor. ACTAssure™ is the committed program: scheduled visits, standing scope and priority response, planned across the year.

Can you support our annual outage?

Yes — outage and shutdown support labor is core work: supervised crews, defined scope, and the parts ordered before the outage starts.

Do you do structural steel?

Install, modification and repair — with fabrication out of our 18,000 sq/ft Fontana shop when the fix needs fabricating.

The ACT Group

Applied Conveyor Technology — bulk material handling experts. Dust control, conveyor services, silo cleaning, parts, and engineering.

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