Patrick Hartmann

global industry manager

After graduating as an industrial engineer, Patrick Hartmann has worked in the automotive industry as a planner, project manager, team leader and as a global industry manger. In his current role, he supports Sick’s innovation in the automotive and tire industries.

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Presentation

Machine vision in the tire industry

Tire manufacturers must identify errors in the production process as early as possible to reduce scrap and therefore cost. This need has increased the number of machine vision applications throughout the whole production process, from the mixing area to final finishing. Because the main applications are connected to black rubber, 3D technology is seen as a reliable technology to solve these applications. On top of that, advances in image processing performance including artificial intelligence and deep learning are constantly improving the inspection capability in terms of flexibility and reliability.