From the development of a new tire to the release for the market as well as during production process, tires are tested extensively.
Specially in the final finishing area of a tire production following standard tests are very common:
- TU tire uniformity = force variation measurement
- TG tire geometry = tire form variation and surface failure analysis
- TB tire balancing = weight distribution or unbalance measurement
Additionaly other tests may be applied like x-ray, shearography, acoustic measurements, rollig resistance.
Worldwide several suppliers of test equipment provide machines for automatic testing of these physical charateristics, specially for the above mentioned 3 methods.
Tire Testing Machinery
Tire final finishing machine suppliers
| Machine Supplier | Country | Methods | Machine Name |
| Micropoise | USA | TB/TG/TU | ASTEC |
| Seichter GmbH | Germany | TG/TU | TIC |
| Hofmann | Germany | TB/TG/TU | RGM |
| ZF Test Systems | Germany | TB/TG/TU | LUB |
| Inmess | Germany | TG/TU | TUO |
| Kokusai | Japan / USA | TB/TG/TU | |
| Seib Industrie | Germany | TG/TU | |
| Kobelco | Japan | TG/TU | |
| Poling Group | USA | TB/TG/TU | |
| Mesnac | China | TB/TG/TU | |
| Micro Epsilon | Germany | Tire Uniformity and Geometry line | Titan.21 |
| DLFTECH | China | Tire uniformity testing machine | |
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