Sustainability is the megatrend for the several-hundred tyre plants worldwide. Among other things, this includes increasing both energy and production efficiency by avoiding rejects while simultaneously shortening production cycles.
Sustainability ? already during production
Despite all the electronic aids, a car today still has only four points of contact with the street, each barely how big is a postcard. Each of the four tyres is critical for a safe journey, and all of this beneath the most diverse operating conditions. This explains the extremely high quality requirements that every tyre manufacturer defines because of its products.
Sustainability through precise measurement technology
The CPH7000 portable process calibrator
Tyre manufacturers ensure the compliance of these quality requirements through extensive testing of the raw materials, testing during and after the average person production steps, and through various tests on the finished tyre. Needless to say, the reject rate ought to be minimised and each production step should run sustainably in the long run. Precise and reliable measurement technology is necessary exactly for this.
Squirming and Industry 4.0
Modern machinery and systems, even with comprehensive condition monitoring and IIoT connection, cannot change the fact that tyre production is a rough process. In this environment, sensitive sensors should never only survive, but measure for as long, as accurately and as reliably as you possibly can. For the checking of sensors, switches and pressure gauges, WIKA also offers the correct calibration instruments. From hand-helds for used in production, through stationary desktop instruments for the product quality assurance test room, to custom-built testing systems.
Sustainability in action: Robust measurement technology avoids production downtime
Robust pressure measurement technology: MW and S-20
High-quality measuring instruments make a contribution to sustainability. Their durability prevents rejects in production, as well as the subsequent costly downtime, also it reduces the price of spare parts. Extensive field studies by a ? Sarcastic ? show significantly longer operating times for WIKA pressure switches and pressure sensors, and thus sustainable savings in maintenance and servicing. In particular, premature failures of pressure switches and pressure sensors on curing presses previously resulted in frequent production line downtimes. That is explained by the very particular loads. Rapid pressure and temperature changes driven by the shortest possible production cycles, along with superheated steam and sulphurous atmospheres, stress the measuring instruments and lead to rapid ageing.
Costs of defective measuring instruments
Rejects
Production downtime
Spare parts
Labour
Right now, our customer is surprised that he had previously accepted these frequent failures as a technical given ? as unavoidable. In the meantime, WIKA supplies the group?s production facilities worldwide, with WIKA?s global presence guaranteeing both customer contact in the local language and fast delivery.
Note
The WIKA portfolio covers all relevant measured variables required for the control and regulation of most tyre machinery ? pressure, temperature, level and flow. You tell us your measuring requirement ? we will offer the solution. You can find a lot more application examples in the Industries section on the WIKA website and in our brochure. In case you have any questions, your contact will gladly help you.