A roadmap for AI in the tire industry

Artificial Intelligence (AI) marks a big inflection point for the tire industry: quite different from the control & automation systems we have today, it could just change nearly everything.

If the industry could start again from square one, we would probably do things very differently: less reliance on sheer scale and mass production, more focus on shorter runs, more ‘build on-demand’.

But that kind of revolution is not affordable or possible right now. We have to optimise, evolve and develop the facilities we have. That means more automation, more AI.

Today, automated tire building machines (TBMs) ensure consistency of production, excellent quality without intervention by a skilled operator, addressing the tire industry’s key concerns: productivity, quality, consistency and operational efficiency.

But this is no longer enough.

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