# From machines and jigs to automated lines

> Custom machines, test equipment, fixtures, and assembly tools, designed around your line and supported through start-up.

## What's included

- Custom machines and automated cells
- Test equipment and quality fixtures
- Fixtures, jigs, and assembly tools
- Upgrades to existing lines
- Updates to legacy equipment, including reverse engineering
- Complete documentation packages
- Build management with our fabrication and controls partners
- On-site support through start-up

## Why APTUS

- **We fit how you work.** We fit your practices and approvals, so capital projects move quickly and smoothly.
- **A fresh set of eyes.** As product, machine, and line designers, we look for the appropriate solution, not the default one.
- **A team you can count on.** To build something reliable, you need a reliable team. We'll even fly to your plant in the company plane.

## Industries

Automotive, Industrial Equipment, Consumer Products

## Examples

- [Durability Test Fixtures](https://www.aptusdesignworks.com/work/durability-test-fixtures): Custom fixtures that hold a complex molded part through tens of thousands of force cycles in an environmental chamber, without damage.
- [High-Speed Press Transfer Cell](https://www.aptusdesignworks.com/work/high-speed-press-transfer-cell): Technical coordination and detailed design for a 2-second-cycle press cell integrating several specialist vendors’ equipment.
- [Production Loading Machine](https://www.aptusdesignworks.com/work/production-loading-machine): A loading machine that moves product from an associate-loaded magazine onto a new high-volume line, delivered ahead of schedule.
- [Electrical Product Test Machines](https://www.aptusdesignworks.com/work/electrical-product-testing-machines): Turn-key off-line electrical verification machines, built after prototyping the test process with the customer’s engineers.

Source: https://www.aptusdesignworks.com/services/automation-engineering