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Nokian Tyres

RFID ensures Production Traceability and Error Prevention.

Nokian Tyres, a leading manufacturer of specialized passenger car and SUV tires, transformed its factory operations with RFID. The system now tracks raw materials, machine stuffing, and the entire production process, ensuring full traceability and continuous quality improvements.

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Heikki Haavisto

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Challenge

Ensuring Traceability and Preventing Errors in Complex Production

Tyre manufacturing is a complex process where raw materials such as rubber, carbon black and chemicals produce numerous specialised components that are assembled and cured.

Traceability of various parts is an important quality function for Nokian Tyres. Traceability requires to know the history of each tyre and the components it is built from. Traditionally tracking processes have been manual which causes more errors, inaccuracy and slowness.

Many raw materials and components out of which the tires are made, look almost identical to each other. Wrong material inputs are possible due to human errors. One false material input at an early phase of the tire production can have an effect to wide range of products and many individual tires. Inaccurate manual process causes a need to have a big safety margin for production recalls.

tires on conveyor line at nokian renkaat

One false material input at an early phase of the tyre production could affect a wide range of products later on.

Benefits

Zero mistakes with material input

Full visibility to material usage

Enhanced data on material quality

Ability to steer production in real-time

Outcome

The RFID implementation has provided Nokian Tyres with robust production traceability and automated error prevention. The system ensures real-time, accurate, and automated monitoring and steering of production featuring:

  • Real-time accurate and automated traceability for tire production
  • Preventing false material inputs
  • Monitoring and steering the production in real time
  • And presents a browser-based powerful reporting tool for displaying and modifying data.

Solution

Full Production Traceability with RFID

Turck Vilant System, together with RFID technology partners Confidex (Beontag) and Impinj, provided Nokian Tyres with an RFID solution which provides full traceability data and error prevention for millions of tyres yearly. The system tracks the whole production process from raw materials to components and to tyres.

  • Extensive RFID read point Network: Hundreds of RFID read points are strategically placed around the plant to track.
  • Automated Material Verification: If a user attempts to feed blocked components batches into a machine, the system will automatically warn the user.
  • Automated Data Linking: The Turck Vilant software automatically creates linkages between raw materials, components, and tires.
  • Central Data Repository & Reporting: The Turck Vilant software collects over 100 million yearly production events into a central repository. Vilant Visibility Manager provides powerful browser-based reporting tools for displaying and modifying data on individual tyres, components, raw materials, and machines.

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