Meet PRESSTON™.The Always-On AI Expert.

What if your maintenance team could get instant answers from a true press expert, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no waiting and no guesswork? That question now has an answer.

Most maintenance teams accept the wait as part of the job. A fault occurs. A senior technician is called. Production stops while the answer travels. The cost spreads across material, labor, downtime, and customer commitments that rarely show up on a single line item.

Developed by Sutherland Presses, PRESSTON™ is a purpose-built AI agent for press maintenance. Powered by S-AI, it delivers comprehensive, practical guidance that mirrors how seasoned press experts think: clear, direct, and grounded in real production environments. PRESSTON™ combines proven best practices, field-tested troubleshooting logic, and explicit safety reminders. The result is an always-available expert that supports technicians with confidence, without replacing human judgment.

Three Things That Define Expert-Level Support.

For maintenance teams, those three things are not separate features. They are one continuous strategy. Instant answers without safety discipline create risk. Safety guidance without diagnostic speed costs production. PRESSTON™ delivers all three on every interaction.

One Agent. Every Press Type.

Whether you are maintaining mechanical presses, hydraulic presses, or servo hydraulic systems, PRESSTON™ adapts its guidance to the equipment at hand. It supports mixed fleets and evolving production demands with consistent, accurate advice across every press type Sutherland builds.

Coverage goes beyond the press body. Clutch and brake systems. Fluid management and valve troubleshooting. Servo motor and drive diagnostics. I-PRESS control system support. PRESSTON™ handles the full maintenance scope, from daily preventive checks to root-cause analysis on unplanned stoppages.

It Speaks the Language of Technicians.

Unlike generic AI tools, PRESSTON™ was trained specifically for press maintenance. It understands shift constraints, mixed press fleets, real fault conditions, and the difference between a planned shutdown and an unplanned stoppage. The guidance is concise and actionable, designed to fit the pace of manufacturing, not a consulting engagement.

When a technician asks a question at 2 a.m. on a Saturday, they get a reliable answer in the same format they would get from a seasoned colleague standing next to them. PRESSTON™ does not replace human judgment. It extends it, filling the gap between the technician on the floor and the expert who is not always available.

Built on the I-PRESS Foundation.

Every PRESSTON™ response is grounded in the same I-PRESS control architecture running on Sutherland press floors worldwide. Every stroke, every fault code, every cycle parameter that I-PRESS sees, PRESSTON™ understands. The agent does not speak in generalities. It speaks the language of the control system your operators already use.

From Reaction to Real Time.

Traditional maintenance executes a checklist and hopes the press behaves. PRESSTON™ measures what is actually happening on every stroke and adjusts. Multi-stage fault diagnostics for unplanned stops. Closed-loop guidance for preventive maintenance routines. Real-time response that flags abnormal conditions before they reach the tool.

The result is a maintenance process that holds uptime within spec across long production runs, protects equipment life, and reduces unplanned stoppages measurably. On a high-volume press line, that difference shows up in yield, throughput, and finished-part cost.