What do a kettle grill, a ball bearing, a washing machine, and a bumper have in common? They are all made on a press line from AP&T. Now AP&T is launching UniLines, a new line concept that distills the company’s combined knowledge and experience in sheet metal forming since the 1960s and makes it available to manufacturers of all sizes.
A five-minute stop is easy to miss in the moment. But a thousand five-minute stops show up in the statistics. AP&T is now rolling out a new control system in which machine learning helps the line find its own optimal rhythm – part of a broader initiative in which AP&T aims to help manufacturers get significantly more out of their existing press lines.
