Characterization of the factors involved in the tire production process

Abstract

This dissertation has the purpose of describing the tire production methods, production variations, quality issue, specification details and the how the tire will behave. It is noted that due to the nature of the internship in the Continental Group several details cannot be described in full detail to avoid publication of trade secret details. Tires are one of the most important components in the composition of an automobile, because tires are the only connection between the car and the road. With a bad set of tires it doesn’t matter how developed car braking and power systems are unless they can transmit the necessary forces to the ground. During this internship the proponent of this dissertation helped and learnt from the industrialization department verifying several tires for specification purposes. Also a database was developed in order to automatically maintain the industrialization process papers. Once the proponent noticed the cause of the highest cause of scrap, a solution was developed and presented to the department.