TIRE BUILDING MACHINES: VMI INTERVIEW Korte notes. An additional difficulty is that, as machinery has advanced, these positions require skilled workers. VMI hopes to overcome this hurdle by pushing forward with machine advances to enable more processes to be completed by the machine itself. As Korte anticipates, “Self-adjusting machines will be the future.” New thinking VMI is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to progress the autonomous capabilities of machines. This is helping the company to introduce technology to detect foreign objects in the manufacturing process. The materials in which these foreign objects are found can then be skipped or cut out automatically to avoid introducing any polluted material into the tire. This foreign object detection can occur, for example, during the examination of the underside of conventional tire tread. “Because the cassette is at the back of the machine and the tread is going into the front of the machine to the drum and then put on the ply, you do not see the bottom March 2024 www.tiretechnologyinternational.com 33
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