Why do tire factories need MES systems?

1. Why do tire factories need MES systems?

In the tire manufacturing industry, the production process is complex, involving numerous steps and a wide range of equipment, encompassing multiple links such as batching, mixing, calendar, building process, curing, testing, and warehousing. Traditional production management methods often rely on manual statistics and empirical decision-making, presenting the following pain points:

The production plan is out of alignment with the actual progress;

Process data is scattered, and information silos are severe;

It is difficult to trace the quality of products;

Issues such as equipment downtime and raw material waste occur frequently;

The management lacks real-time visual data support.

At this point, the role of MES (Manufacturing Execution System) becomes particularly prominent. The MES system can achieve digitization, transparency, and controllability of the production process, marking a crucial step for tire factories towards intelligent manufacturing. ZQSOFT Tire Smart Factory Solution

II. The core role of MES system in tire manufacturing

Visualization of production process

The MES system can monitor each step from mixing, calendar to curing in real time, recording equipment status, work order progress, personnel operations, and other information, allowing management to keep abreast of on-site dynamics.

Production planning and scheduling optimization

Based on the APS automatic scheduling results, the system can precisely decompose the plan to production lines and workstations, ensuring the orderly execution of production tasks.

Quality traceability and process control

MES achieves full-process tracking of raw materials, semi-finished products, and finished goods through technologies such as barcodes and RFID, ensuring that quality issues can be traced back to specific processes and batches.

Equipment status monitoring and early warning

MES can be integrated with equipment PLCs and sensors to collect parameters such as temperature, pressure, and runtime in real time, assisting enterprises in carrying out preventive maintenance for equipment and minimizing downtime losses.

Data collection and performance analysis

The system automatically collects data such as production output, yield rate, and labor efficiency, providing managers with production reports and decision-making bases to achieve data-driven lean production.

III. Actual value brought by tire MES system

✅ Production efficiency improvement: Achieve precise execution of plans, reduce waiting and switching time;

✅ Quality management upgrade: Reduce the defect rate and rework rate through full-process traceability;

✅ Improved equipment utilization: Monitor operating status in real-time and optimize equipment load;

✅ Transparent management: Production data is uploaded in real-time, allowing the leadership to remotely monitor progress;

✅ Digital decision support: Provides enterprises with visual production reports and analytical data.

The ZQSOFT MES system has been successfully implemented in multiple tire factories. Through deep integration with systems such as APS and WMS, it helps enterprises build a full-process intelligent manufacturing system from production planning to logistics management. ZQSOFT Tire Smart Factory Solution

IV. Typical application scenarios of MES system in Tire Industry

Mixing process: Automatically collect weighing and batching data to ensure consistency in the formulation.

Calendar and Building Process: Monitor process parameters in real-time to ensure consistent product specifications.

Curing process: Automatically record the curing temperature and time to achieve stable quality control.

Quality inspection process: The system automatically interfaces with inspection equipment, forming traceable quality records.

Finished product warehousing and delivery: Integrate with the WMS system to achieve integrated management of production and warehousing.

V. The Role of MES System in the Digital Transformation of the Tire Industry

The MES system serves as the core link connecting the "planning layer" and the "execution layer" of an enterprise.

In the intelligent tire manufacturing plant, it serves as a "bridge":

Integrate with ERP and APS systems to achieve precise issuance of production plans;

Connect down to the device layer to achieve real-time data collection and control during the production process.

Through the construction of the MES system, Tire Manufacturers can achieve:

From manual experience management to data-driven decision management;

From information silos to system interconnection;

From single-point optimization to intelligent collaboration across the entire process.

VI. Summary

The implementation of MES system in tire factories is not only an inevitable trend of information technology upgrading, but also a crucial step towards achieving intelligent manufacturing and lean production.

The MES system makes the tire production process more transparent, efficient, and controllable, helping enterprises to increase production capacity, reduce costs, and enhance competitiveness.

ZQSOFT has been deeply involved in the industrial software field for many years. Leveraging its rich experience in MES projects in the Tire Industry, it has provided mature solutions for multiple domestic and international tire manufacturing enterprises, assisting them in building digital and intelligent tire factories. ZQSOFT Tire Smart Factory Solution