The VisioMAC initiative aims at introducing quality control along the production line of tires. The project was conducted in collaboration with the Michelin site of Cuneo, where we attended to the steps of tire production: mixing and calendaring, extrusion and tissue cutting, carcass assembling, green tire (unvulcanized tire) fabrication, curing, and final inspection.
The quality control systems check the two stages that are particularly prone to faults:
- the assembly of the carcass – Macchina Automatica di Confezione (MAC) subproject
- the talc deposition before the curing of the tires. – Machine Automatique d’Enduction (MAE) subproject
By enabling immediate recognition of faults, the project seeks to enhance productivity, reduce waste, and improve overall quality while respecting a cost budget that guarantees the feasibility of the solution.
The final result is two detecting systems based on computer vision and tailored to the manufacturing environment, able to adapt to different tire sizes and with an elaboration time that respects the cycle time of the line.