AP&T’s Visual Components 3D simulation tool helps users find equipment

AP&T has introduced Visual Components, a tool for 3D simulations to show how the company’s production lines, linear robots, and presses can perform in the user’s factory setting.

In addition to verifying cycle times and testing the equipment’s range, the tool presents 3D simulations in a virtual copy of the user’s factory setting. It also can show cycle time in real time for each machine in a line.

The company has created a library of dynamic 3D simulation models of many of its machines, so the user can change and try out different sizes and stroke lengths without having to rebuild the model.