HF smart-tech raises efficiency of final mixing process

Freudenberg, Germany – HF Mixing Group has developed an AI-based algorithm, called Smart Final Mix, for optimising final mixing processes in the tire and technical rubber goods industries.

In a recently issued technical paper, HF Mixing reported on its development of the tool, which analyses and optimises existing final-mixing processes, based on mathematical models and AI.

Within the algorithm, batch-temperature, energy-consumption and mixing-quality are linked to each other and then optimised.

The technology, thereby, enables the optimal process-parameter settings that apply to the final-mixing process to be calculated.

To describe the final mixing process, HF Mixing developed mathematical models and approaches to measure mixing-quality and batch-temperature and link these to energy-consumption.

These parameters all relate to rotor speed, which is used for the mathematical modelling system, according to the HF Mixing paper.

With the individual parameters 'summarised' in an overall model, the tool can be used to describe and simulate the complete final-mixing process.

Technical paper