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Manufacturing Technology Insights | Wednesday, February 24, 2021
To meet the latest requirement of tires, many plants need to be refurbished, and new production facilities need to be constructed.
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FREMONT, CA: In the coming years, the tire market is expected to experience substantial growth. It has been more difficult than ever at the same time. A greater variety of tires is required for the growing number of vehicle models. Automotive developments such as e-mobility and autonomous driving are increasing the need for innovative concepts in tires' design and development. That is why competitive tire production needs to be highly versatile and adapt rapidly to meet volatile market developments. Today it must meet the high demands of quality, protection, environmental standards, and rising internationalization.
Tire manufacturers and machine builders require innovative concepts in tire design and manufacturing, enhanced production processes featuring increased automation, and more transparent production. Reduced downtime, detailed diagnostics, and lower energy usage are the additional vital aspects. Simultaneously, to meet the latest requirements, many plants need to be refurbished, and new production facilities need to be constructed to meet increasing product demand.
Machine-to-machine interaction is essential to accomplish mass production and mass variations. Through this, companies can reallocate resources that can save a lot of time that can be used constructively on other critical aspects.
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Tire manufacturers have ready access to technology for data integration between the different value chain points through Totally Integrated Automation and Siemens PLM software. HMI, controllers, distributed IO, motion control, and drives seamlessly into one engineering environment are incorporated into TIA Portal's revolutionary engineering platform. Furthermore, machine builders for the tire industry can improve productivity and cost-efficiency through the new technologies by implementing the SIMATIC range of solutions. SIMATIC PLCs help tire producers directly from plant layouts and factory designs that are highly automated throughout the product and manufacturing life cycle according to their requirements. It involves operating environments like logistics, mixing, semi-production, tire manufacturing machines, curing, testing, and final finishing.
The traditional value chain for tire manufacturing starts from R&D, moving to production planning, tire manufacturing, quality assurance, warehousing, and supplying the tire industry will massively benefit by incorporating automation at the start of the life cycle of tire manufacturing. tire manufacturers can use a combination of new and retrofit solutions to respond to their demand and retain their successful business models utilizing state-of-the-art technology from Siemens.
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