February 2010
Wind power – large volumes demand full control
A wind power plant contains around a million rotor and stator plates. This entails large production volumes for competitive suppliers in the heavily expanding wind power industry. This will lead to a path of profitability via effective processes with a high degree of availability.
As experts on sheet metal forming and automated flows, AP&T has a long tradition of creating effective and reliable overall solutions in accordance with the concept of One Responsible Partner®. One of the most recent examples is production equipment for stator and rotor plates for ABB. The issue here involved industrial electric motors, but the production process is the same for generators in wind power plants.
ABB chose to give the entire assignment to AP&T in order to obtain a turnkey and fully functional overall solution with high output and reliability.
“It doesn't matter how fast the process is if you have to deal with malfunctions,” says Per-Arne Mattsson, who is the automation product supervisor at AP&T.
Thanks to One Responsible Partner®, it will be possible to obtain a complete and industry-leading production solution, regardless of previous production experiences.