Case Study:
Goodyear Farm Tires are now designed with Modix BIG-60
The Company
Titan International is one of the world’s largest tire manufacturers, as well as a global leader with a full line of tires and wheels for off-road vehicles. The company provides high-quality services and customized products for agriculture, construction, forestry, and mining industries. Titan International is the owner of both Titan & Goodyear® Farm Tire brands, and develops designs for these tires in-house.
The Challenge
Tire makers are no different from other manufacturers of modern tools and equipment; tires need continuous improvement. Naturally, this requires constantly making and testing new designs of tires. Creating an entire mold just to make one single tire tread for testing or display, though, is prohibitively expensive. To solve this problem, Titan International invested in a Modix to create models of their tire treads for tractors and other vehicles.
The Solution
The Solution
Titan’s Modix has proven to be a great asset for the team. Within only 72 hours of 3D prints since assembly, they’ve been able to produce several model tire treads out of PLA, and for a fraction of the price of cutting out a section of a larger tire (which would effectively ruin it), which is also less than the price of making a mold for the section of tire.
Titan is also using Modix to help engineers innovate on vehicle tires via rapid prototyping. In particular, Titan is working on a new tire technology called LSW (Low Side Wall) tires, which allow agricultural professionals to take certain wheeled vehicles to places where, previously, only tracked vehicles could have gone.
Information box:
The Company: Titan International
Application: Rapid Prototyping
Vertical: Engineering Design (tires)
Printer: Modix BIG METER
