Future Directions

Alta Precision is in an excellent position to build on its solid base, and gradually expand the company’s business volume, products and services. The intent is to build on the company’s existing strengths and capabilities, not to drastically realign its orientation. A gradual, commonsense implementation of a growth plan, which strengthens the long term viability of the company, is the vision.

High precision, and high value added products and services, on low to medium product volumes, will remain as major attributes of the Alta product profile. The balance between aerospace and various commercial sector products will also be consolidated. Geographically, Alta’s natural marketplace is the North American continent. However, the source of a licensed product to be manufactured for the North American market, could be worldwide.

The Alta Precision plan for growth is based on three (3) overall strategies:
  • Expand the subcontract machining, to include additional secondary operations. Up to and including complete assembly manufacturing. The target business in this category is medium to long term, repeat contracts.
  • Obtain through partnership and/or licensing an in-house product for manufacturing. This product should be generally compatible with the above description of the Alta capabilities. Depending on the potential partner situation and objectives, Alta Precision envisages the possibility of providing marketing, customer and product support, etc., to support the overall partnership agreement.
  • Identify and implement the Alta organization, system, and resource needs, to support the growth plan.

In keeping with Alta’s plan to gradually expand the company’s business and to diversify It’s client base, the company has introduced a division, Alta Precision Prototypes Inc.., who has acquired a Stereolithography machine. The biggest model available, the SLA-500 is fine edge prototype technology. To summarize, Stereolithography is rapid prototyping. This new technology allows us to produce a resin prototype to a high degree of accuracy with out resorting to the traditional method of making a mold, casting and machining the first model, etc. Production time from "idea" to actual "sample" is cut drastically, if a mold is produced using the traditional method it can take several months. Using the rapid prototyping method offered by Stereolithography a finished sample could be achieved in a few days depending on the complexity of the model part.

Alta Precision Inc. along with the help of Alta Precision Prototypes Inc. can now offer its clients custom tailored service. We can now help our clients at the design stage, make a resin prototype (using Stereolithography), have it cast or molded, and then machine the metal part and take care of processing. We like to call it "one stop shopping".