Delta Automatic Tire Cord Splicing System Solution Enhances Manufacturing Efficiency with Significant Benefits for Production

Tires are an essential component of vehicles, designed to provide traction, support vehicle weight, absorb vibrations, and reduce shocks during motion. The quality and performance of tires directly affect driving safety and comfort. Within a tire's inner layers, the cord is the core material that makes up the tire's skeleton, which is composed of tough fibers such as nylon, polyester, and rubber. Its primary functions are to stabilize the overall tire structure, strengthen the tread to resist punctures, and absorb road bumps.

To enhance tire reliability and durability, high-quality tire cords must combine tough fiber materials, tight weaving, and firm adhesion to the rubber matrix of the tire. Therefore, quality control is important during tire cord production. The traditional tire cord cutting process mainly adopts semi-automated technology, where the first half involves automatic cutting by equipment, and the second half requires manual splicing by operators. However, manual splicing might raise issues such as inconsistent precision, low efficiency, high costs, difficulties in quality control, and poor working environment. As a result, the production capacity and quality of tire cords cannot be effectively controlled, making it challenging to meet the demands of modern tire manufacturing.

To facilitate smart upgrades in tire manufacturing processes and address pain points, Delta has introduced the Automatic Tire Cord Splicing System Solution. This solution highly integrates Delta’s self-developed industrial automation hardware and software products, including drives, servo systems, SCARA robots, industrial cameras, PLCs, HMIs, and a machine vision platform. The Compact Modular Mid-Range PLC AS Series plays a central role in controlling the equipment, coordinating the operation of each device based on preset production parameters. When the tire cord is fed into the cutting area, the AC Servo System ASDA-A3 Series drives the cutter to cut the tire cord into a specified width as per PLC commands. The cord then moves forward on the conveyor belt and reaches the splicing position. Leveraging machine vision technology, two sets of Industrial Camera DMV-C Series automatically detect the edges of the incoming cord and send the results to the PLC. Based on the positional deviation data, the movement path of the SCARA Robot DRS Series is adjusted in real time to precisely align the tire cord.

Delta’s Automatic Tire Cord Splicing System Solution offers the following benefits:

• Fully Automated and precise splicing with consistent fitting positioning