Accelerating tire innovation through integration

What happens when the world doubles its miles driven by 2030? Not only will we see more vehicles on and off roads, but we also expect carbon emissions to skyrocket. Even as autonomous and electric vehicles (EVs) rise to the challenge of leading the shift to decarbonization, one other critical player emerges — tire manufacturers.   

Tires are crucial to ensuring the performance and safety standards EVs and autonomous vehicles demand. To keep up with new material, performance and environmental demands, innovation has to be faster and smarter.

The good news? Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE® platform can help. It empowers you to integrate multidisciplinary teams to innovate quickly and precisely.

Why Integration Matters

Our platform is pivotal to providing a unified environment where all stakeholders can collaborate seamlessly to:  

• Break down silos
  End-to-end integration enables real-time iteration and teamwork to simplify complex tire designs. This boosts transparency, quality and traceability in bringing innovative tires to market faster.
• Accelerate innovation
  Advanced multiphysics simulation reduces the dependency on lengthy and costly prototypes, speeding up the development cycle. Innovative concepts, such as additive manufacturing of the mold and tire corner modules, can improve tire quality and performance, while opening doors to new services, such as fleet management. 
• Optimize manufacturing operations
  From tire specs to mold design, the platform ensures digital continuity so supply chains and operations stay synchronized and efficient, leading to higher first-time-right rates and shorter time to market.
• Improve product quality and risk management
  Continuous risk assessments, quality management and data-driven improvements minimize recalls and improve product quality.
• Boost recyclability
  With less than 10% of rubbers being reused in new tires today, the platform’s integrated approach enables manufacturers to design recyclability from the start and better manage end-of-life tires, reducing carbon footprint at every lifecycle stage.risk assessments, quality management and data-driven improvements minimize recalls and improve product quality.

Optimize Cost Through Integration

Although tire innovation is crucial, keeping costs low is just as important. Do you know that material innovation for example, drives about 80% of tire innovation? Imagine how much time and money can be saved by cutting down physical prototypes and lengthy development time. With real-time collaboration on our platform, you can source materials efficiently and increase production and yield while reducing waste, raw materials and production costs.

As demands fluctuate, tire portfolio sizes will also increase. Batch sizes will be reduced, pushing manufacturers to adapt quickly to produce diversified batches of smaller quantities. Integration gives you the speed and agility to adapt while tightening your grip on cost.      

Sustainability on the Road Ahead

Are you optimizing the materials used for your tires? Can you recycle end-of-life tires effectively? Do you have plans to reduce carbon emissions at your manufacturing sites?

Our 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables you to drive the right sustainable initiatives. Its tools and capabilities facilitate biomaterial research, enhance virtual testing to reduce costly physical prototypes and boost first-time-right rates that minimize waste and promote circularity. This integrated approach strengthens key initiatives in energy and material-saving tires, and accelerates bio-sourced materials development, fuel-cell-based mobility solutions and carbon-neutral tires.    

Lead the way forward

Our innovative tire solutions lead the way in the tire revolution with three key advantages:

• Modeling and simulation (MODSIM)
  The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is the only unified platform capable of modeling and simulating in a single environment, giving you more flexibility, speed and precision to explore design possibilities.  
• Manufacturing excellence
  DELMIA Apriso Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) offers precise and advanced planning, scheduling and production flow synchronization to optimize large and complex operations across plants worldwide.
• Agile sales and operations planning
  DELMIA Quintiq solutions tackle even the toughest, most complex logistics puzzles efficiently.

As mobility evolves, so must the tire industry. The road ahead may be challenging, but with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform, you are well-equipped to lead innovation in the tire industry. Learn more about our precision-driven innovation in the tire industry here.