Dial-Index Tire Spray Machine
Solution
Thankfully, our customer had been introduced to Pioneer Industrial Systems through prior projects at other plants. After a brief discovery call, a sales engineer was on-site within a week to further understand the challenges, constraints, and requirements of the system.
Our engineers have been working with the tire industry since the late 1980s, so we understood the importance of minimizing overspray, meeting high-speed cycle time, and spraying a wide range of tire sizes. This plant primarily built passenger tires, so a DTS1000i would be perfect for this application.
Since the plant had two older Dial Index Tire Spray machines, it was determined to stay with a rotary style DTS machine, but one that could provide more output and improved spray characteristics.
A project that we had completed about four years prior had involved a fully enclosed spray booth that included many other benefits.
Pioneer had completed several successful tire spraying machines, white wall spraying machines, tire marking machines that operated in a dual-mode, with both recipe and adaptive intelligence. This dual-mode resulted in a precise spray and maintained consistent uptime, with tires entering the system entirely at random.
After discovering the customer’s needs, the sales engineer provided the customer with a proposal that included advantages of our PFDS and cycle time analysis. With this data, the customer was able to sell the tire spray machine to leadership easily. It was approved within the budget, met the required specifications, and a PO was issued.
Pioneer started its defined Machine Building Process. After the customer runoff, the machine was disassembled, shipped, and Pioneer’s assembly crew went on-site to install the equipment. The engineer then stayed on-site the following week to connect our system to the plant conveyors and higher-level server and a few days of commissioning and training.
The customer was given support documents and was well taken care of after the startup was completed.
DTS1000i Advantages
- 10-12 tires per minute
- 3 station infeed conveyor with a centering station, accumulation station, and servo lift station
- 2 station outfeed conveyor with a pneumatic lower station and accumulation station
- chuck drives for tire rotation
- Automatic chuck cleaning each index
- Fan air for the spray gun automatically adjusts to optimize spray pattern to each individual tire.
- Spray gun position servo controlled relative totire
- Tires gently lowered to the take away conveyor
- Integrated tire measurement for OD/ID & Height
- Individual height
- Polycarbonate guards provide improved air flow at the paint booth