Sustainability may be the megatrend for the several-hundred tyre plants worldwide. Among other activities, this consists of increasing both energy and production efficiency by avoiding rejects while simultaneously shortening production cycles.
Sustainability ? already during production
Despite all the electronic aids, an automobile today still has only four points of connection with the road, each barely how big is a postcard. Each one of the four tyres is crucial for a safe journey, and all this beneath the most diverse operating conditions. This explains the extremely high quality requirements that every tyre manufacturer defines for its products.
Sustainability through precise measurement technology
The CPH7000 portable process calibrator
Tyre manufacturers ensure the compliance of their quality requirements through extensive testing of the raw materials, testing during and after the average person production steps, along with through various tests on the finished tyre. Of course, the reject rate should be minimised and each production step should run sustainably in the long term. Precise and reliable measurement technology is required exactly for this.
Pressure measurement and Industry 4.0
Modern machinery and systems, even with comprehensive condition monitoring and IIoT connection, cannot change the truth that tyre production is really a rough process. In Ingredients , sensitive sensors must not only survive, but measure for as long, as accurately so when reliably as possible. For the checking of sensors, switches and pressure gauges, WIKA offers the correct calibration instruments. From hand-helds for use in production, through stationary desktop instruments for the product quality assurance test room, to custom-built testing systems.
Sustainability doing his thing: Robust measurement technology avoids production downtime
Robust pressure measurement technology: MW and S-20
High-quality measuring instruments contribute to sustainability. Their durability prevents rejects in production, as well as the subsequent costly downtime, and it reduces the expense of spare parts. Extensive field tests by a ?global player? show significantly longer operating times for WIKA pressure switches and pressure sensors, and therefore sustainable savings in maintenance and servicing. Specifically, premature failures of pressure switches and pressure sensors on curing presses previously resulted in frequent production line downtimes. That is explained by the particular loads. Rapid pressure and temperature changes driven by the shortest possible production cycles, alongside 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 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 necessary 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 get many more application examples in the Industries section on the WIKA website and in our brochure. Assuming you have any questions, your contact will gladly assist you to.