Breathing New Life into Aging Tire Presses: 30+ Machines Modernized with Aleph
Continental achieved real-time visibility and precision control of legacy tire presses using Aleph Visual™ and adaptive edge controls—no hardware upgrades needed.
The Challenge: Legacy Limitations
- Outdated Monitoring: Operators relied on manual checks and fragmented data from 30+-year-old presses.
- Inconsistent Curing: Temperature/pressure fluctuations caused quality deviations in tire curing.
- Strict Standards: Continental required very high precision to meet automotive industry benchmarks.
The Aleph Solution
- Aleph Visual™: Real-Time Visibility
- Zero-Engineering Dashboards: Connected to legacy presses via OPC UA, auto-generating intuitive visualizations.
- Trend View: Tracked historical curing cycles to identify anomalies (e.g., temperature spikes).
- Custom Alerts: Flagged deviations from Continental’s quality thresholds in real time.
- Intelligent Curing Control Microservice
- Edge-Powered: Deployed on Raspberry Pi devices attached to presses.
- Adaptive Adjustments:
- Dynamically adjusted pressure/temperature using causal models, accounting for wear-and-tear.
- Ensured curing cycles stayed within strict tolerance
Results:
- Global Roll-Out: Curing Control Microservice deployed across Continental’s factories.
“Aleph Visual brought new life to a very old machine!", Continental Reifen AG
Technical Breakdown: How it works
- How It Works:
- Data Extraction: Aleph FlexServer connected legacy PLCs via Siemens S7, exposing data via OPC UA.
- Visualization: Aleph Visual dashboards highlighted curing KPIs (temp, pressure, cycle time).
- Control: Microservice used Aleph Insights’ causal models to adjust parameters in real time.
Why Continental Chose Aleph
- Legacy-First Approach: No “rip-and-replace” — solutions worked with 30+-year-old presses.
- OPC UA Expertise: Unified data from mixed OEM environments (Siemens, Rockwell).
- Proven in Automotive: Trusted by Philip Morris International, JTI, and other manufacturers with strict compliance needs.
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Case Study PDF: “Smart Curing for Legacy Presses” Whitepaper: Edge AI in Tire Manufacturing
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- Aleph Visual Product Page
- Aleph Insights: Adaptive AI
