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Interspec / Unilab@

Apollo Tyres Global R&D

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R&D PV P.Goossens & H.v.Benthem; Interspec – Unilab presentation Siemens1

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Patrick GoossensIT Project manager

Apollo Vredestein B.V.Enschede

The [email protected]

Hans van BenthemSenior Researcher

Apollo PV R&DEnschede

The [email protected]

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Apollo at a Glance

• Established in 1972

• A turnover of USD 2.34 billion as of FY 12-13

• Over 16,000 employees

• Manufacturing presence in Asia, Europe and Africa

• Available in over 100 countries

• 9 manufacturing facilities

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Brands

• Passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles & off highway

• Passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles & off highway

• Passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, off highway & bicycles

• Passenger vehicles

• Passenger & commercial vehicles

• Commercial vehicles

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Partners: OEM

* This is only a representative listing and not comprehensive in any manner

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PV R&D center in Enschede

• Responsible for:

– Development of new products and processes– Quality and maintenance of the existing product

and processes specifications– Testing the products

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• PV tyres: winter, All season, Summer and Light Truck

To be manufactered in:• Baroda (I)• Chennai (I)• Enschede (NL)

Products…

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Car tyre factory: 34,363 m²Agricultural tyre factory: 8,435 m²Warehouse and distribution centre: 62,000 m²

Apollo Vredestein B.VFactory…

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MixingRubber, Carbon black, Chemicals

Banbury Mixer

Rubber processing

• Steel belt• Moulding• Cuttering/

splicing

Textile cord calendering

• Bead manufacturing/ shaping

• Manufacturing filler strip

Steel cordcalendering

Textile cord rolls Steel cord rolls

• Tread• Sidewalls• Innerliner• Calendering

Extruding

• Cuttering/splicing

• Slittering

Bead cord

Tyre building Tyre building Final Finishing

Quality checksCuring

Storage Finished product warehouse

Processes

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CHEMICAL LAB

Raw material quality checks, rubber components, identification, purity and concentration.

3 Labs…

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PROCESSING LAB

Compound development, sample preparations.

3 Labs…

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PHYSICAL LAB

Adhesion tests (H-test, T-test), traction and tearing strength, hardness, viscosity, vulcanisation behaviour and simulations of tyre behaviour.

3 Labs…

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TYRE TESTS Indoor

Tyre inspecion system Wear resistance

Fatigue resistance High velocity test

Indoor testing

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TYRE TESTSOutdoor

Brakes: Wet-Dry-Snow-Ice Handling: Wet-Dry-Snow

Behavior on wet roads Sound (in- and external)

Outdoor testing

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• Main processes for all our labs (and simulation) the same

• All test data for different type of objects are the same (sequence of taskswith settings, administration and results)

• One solution for all labs:

• Integration between the labs

• develop once, use everywhere.

• Better data retrieval were recipe, compound properties and tyreproperties are easily combined

Vision…

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What is so special?

• Different type of labs• Different type of (semi-finished) products

– Testing of physical properties of compounds– Tyre testing (finished product)

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What is so special?

• A test procedure may consist of several steps (activities)• The activity settings can depend on other information in the system

– Previous results– Product information

• One test procedure can deliver more than one product property• XY-graph as result• Pictures as result

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• Specification management is vital in international situation (Apollo)• Unilab most open architecture to support trial process• Unilab flexible enough to support a tyre lab

Why Interspec/Unilab

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Timeline

• 2006: Start interspec/unilab project with ATOS• 2009: Takeover by Apollo• 2010: All labs have QC and R&D configured • 2010: Migration to version 6.4• 2012: Switch from BO to WebFocus• 2013: Indoor / Outdoor testing optimalisation• 2014: Global implementation

Including interface to SAP

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The software…

• Interspec– Generic information of (semi-finished) products– Control plan– Specifications (“limits”)– Bill Of Material– Processing

• Unilab– Storage measured data

• Instrument interfacing– Check for specifications– Support of the lab workflow

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Interspec - Unilab

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Interspec Unilab

Interspec UnilabPart number SampleType

ppkey Parameter profileProperty group Parameter group

Property 1 Parameter 1Property 2 Parameter 2

Parameter 3

Specifications Test results

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Interspec - Unilab

Interspec Unilab

Specification = Approved

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Interspec - Unilab

Interspec interface specifies the test limits for Unilab

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Interspec – UnilabInterface customization


But we need more!

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But we need more!

Extra parameters to hold extra information (When a test delivers more than one test result)

Sample frequencies according to Control Plan

Goal: no manual intervention in interface

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Apollo Vredestein uses a 3 layered interfaceSecond and Third layer is a customization.

Three layers:1. Create major version (x.00) – specification of limits2. Second minor (x.01) – using Template, frequencies from CP3. SampleType status => Current

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• Custom full automatic interface from interspec to unilab based on a custom template mechanism defined in unilab

Interspec – UnilabInterface

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Concluding

• Interspec + Unilab = Succesfull in a complex process

• 2 software tools, 1 User experience

• Reporting tool for transparent reporting

• R&D implementation succesfull

• Next step: Globalisation(vacancy)

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