Get the tire production rolling
New challenges in a competitive market
The global tire market is expected to witness significant growth over the forthcoming years. At the same time, it has become more complex than ever. The increasing number of car types calls for a greater variety of tires. In addition, automotive trends such as eMobility and autonomous driving increase the demand for innovative concepts in tire design and tire production. That’s why competitive tire production needs to be highly flexible and able to react swiftly to meet volatile market developments. At the same time, it needs to meet today’s high requirements in terms of quality, safety, environmental standards and increasing internationalization. Tire manufacturers require consistent solutions that help them optimize their plants’ availability, reduce their TCO and improve time to market. Taking full advantage of digitalization and making use of new business models make it possible to get there.
Standardization in the tire industry
Everyone is talking about digitization and it is being pursued more and more actively. At the same time, manufacturers must develop and deliver machines and systems in less time. The use of open standards leads to seamless integration ability, reusability of engineering results, and ultimately to a reduction of engineering efforts to get the complexity in today´s automation world under control.
Find out in our webinar why a common understanding of standardization is so important to be prepared for successful digitalized workflows.
Increasingly demanding requirements
The economical, technological and social environment of mobility is evolving, bringing about changes in the expectations of both end users and the vehicle industry. That’s why tire manufactures require innovative solutions for the entire value chain.
Continuous product and production improvements with digital twins
The consistent use of digital twins helps meet all requirement and tackle all challenges – from product design and machine design to machine commissioning, production and all the way to product and production performance optimization.
End-to-end virtualization for improved results in the real world
Digital twins of the product, the production process and the production facilities’ as well as the product’s performance are fundamentally linked in a single integrated data model.
This creates a complete picture and a closed loop of the digital and the real world, this way enabling continuous improvements for best possible results based on actual production and performance data.
It also ensures consistency across the entire value chain and enables all stakeholders to access the data they require through Teamcenter – wherever they are.
The digital twin of the product
While tire designers have to meet demanding requirements of car makers and end customers, the digital twin of the tire helps turn innovative design into a successful product. Design, simulation and verification of tires are performed in a completely digital environment for quick, smooth and efficient product development.
The NX CAD/CAE system enables comprehensive simulations of aerodynamics, acoustic behavior and hydroplaning properties. Recipe management is also supported.
The digital twin of the production process
Just like the tires are designed and tested digitally before production, the entire production process is planned, simulated and optimized in a virtual environment with the help of its digital twin.
An entire suite of software from Siemens is available to cover the entire process from rubber mixing to the virtual commissioning of the machinery and even to efficient and error-free standardization based on libraries.
The digital twin of performance
Efficient production and product performance optimization based on real-world data. Performance and maintenance data from production equipment and entire production lines is captured and analyzed using MindSphere, the cloud-based, open IoT operating system. This increases plant availability and also allows need-based maintenance scheduling. MindSphere is the basis for the use of analysis apps for many applications.
Get your tire production rolling
Watch this video to gain an overview of how the seamlessly interacting solutions from Siemens help make tire production consistent, transparent and efficient, this way enabling manufacturers to win a competitive edge in the increasingly global tire industry.
Driving quality and comfort with digitalization
- IRIS Tyres took advantage of the industry expertise of Black Donuts and SMART Controls and used a variety of Siemens Opcenter functionalities to provide an intelligent MOM (Manufacturing Operations Management) solution
- Thanks to end-to-end traceability and tires’ history records, IRIS Tyres is now able to demonstrate to the key customers their ability to realize very high quality products and consequently increase their level of trust and loyalty
- IRIS Tyres, Black Donuts and SMART Controls
Ensure healthy business for the long term
Siemens’ integrated portfolio of software and automation, building technology and energy management solutions offers many opportunities for efficiency and margin improvements in tire production throughout the entire lifecycle of your assets through cost-effective planning, efficient data management, smooth logistics and high-quality service throughout the entire value chain.Please fill out the form in order to contact us.
