On February 19, the first pair of high-performance passenger car tire was launched inTriangle (Weihai) Group Huayang Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Triangle Tire Co., Ltd., signifying the completion and operation of its first-class intelligent passenger car tire production base in Asia. This production line was designed at industry standard 4.0 with all the equipment from Germany and Holland, achieving production automation, information and intelligence.

With a total investment of 6.7 Billion Yuan, Huayang company plans to build a proving ground andsupporting living facilities for testing of its high-performance passenger car tires, special tires, high-performance commercial vehicle tires and high-standard automobile tires. The first phase of the project will produce 4 million high-performance passenger car tires per year with advanced digital recognition, intelligent control and automation technology to meet the personalized demands in Russia, Northern Europe, North America, etc., providing replacement and supporting service for the global high-end market. The revolutionary changes will happen in production efficiency, manufacturing precision, product quality and environmental quality.

During the product manufacturing, the whole process, from raw material preservation, in-process storage & transportation to finished product testing, preservation & loading, is automatic, the positioning accuracy of which is mm level. Moreover, robot technology is used at such links of the whole manufacturing process as rubber refining, in-process and finished product packing. That is to say, the production line has a high degree of the integration of automation and information. It can reduce the fixed number of employees by 40% compared with the traditional mode of production. Meanwhile, the production line employs the integrated information-based application technology to construct an intelligent manufacturing system characterized by the integration of network and collaboration. To be specific, it has the MES system as the carrier and uses RFID, bar code and other techniques to implement the real-time monitoring of the raw materials, in-processes and finished products. As a result, not only each tire has its own unique“Identity Card”, but Huayang Co. Ltd. is successfully upgraded into an Internet of Things (IOT) as well.