Strategies for Overcoming Challenges in Tire Testing

Calling all automotive manufacturers, industrial equipment companies, universities, and anyone interested in tire performance. Whether your focus lies in passenger vehicles, sports cars, commercial vehicles, agricultural heavy equipment, forestry, construction, mining, or anything else, it’s time to lay your tire testing challenges to rest.

You already know how crucial dynamic tire testing and footprint analysis are to ensuring your products are the safest and best. But what about when it goes wrong? Luckily, there’s a system for that.

Tire Testing for Safer Vehicles

If you want to design, test, and release tires that advance your product and corporate profile, attract the right workforce, give engineers the tools they need, and optimize quality control, then you need an all-in-one system that works.

Pairing software with hardware for a durable, comprehensive system you can use down at the track, on the road, or anywhere else, the XSENSOR High-Speed (HS) Tire system provides just that. Our fully realized technology pairs two cutting-edge abilities: sensor technology with ultra-fast signal processing electronics. Now, you can generate complete tire footprint data at high speed.

Better yet, you can say goodbye to the frustration of integrating other software systems. Now, you can quickly evaluate it using our powerful tire testing software. It offers high-resolution sensors that can record even the tiniest tread features at speeds up to 150 km/h while giving you multiple images during each pass-by.

With such technology at your fingertips, you can easily solve all the challenges.

The Main Challenges in Testing Tires

Nobody needs to tell you how frustrating it is to dedicate your resources to a system only to find that it no longer works after a few short years—or sooner.

Yet there exist a raft of challenges in dynamic tire testing, all of which can make getting the information you need difficult or impossible. The worst part is that without good information, you can’t feel safe about putting your products into the world—and you certainly can’t feel secure in your reputation.

To solve these challenges, you must first understand them. The main issues include inconsistent results, high upfront investment, equipment dedicated to only one kind of test, and short obsolescence. Let’s examine this individually and see how a reliable dynamic tire testing system can solve them.

Inconsistent Results

One of the biggest problems for product designers, researchers, and test or process engineers is the inability to replicate data. If you can’t get consistent results, you can’t trust them. You need data to generate test after test to validate your designs accurately. Without it, you’re going nowhere fast.

To achieve this, you need better technology. Yet most dynamic tire testing systems on the market today are old and obsolete, have long set-up times, are easily misaligned, and constantly need recalibration. They don’t work.

Instead, you need out-of-the-box systems with stable calibrations that deliver repeatable and accurate data every time. That relies on sensors that maintain their accuracy (we recommend within ±5% to ensure that you get the quality data your testing process needs) and promise high resolution to capture every tire tread feature, no matter how minute.

Then, you need software systems that pair with the hardware to ensure that each byte of data coming from the sensors is captured, recorded, and analyzed correctly.

High Upfront Investment

Another challenge of tire testing is the high upfront investment for systems that don’t stand the test of time. You spend all this money to find your equipment outdated, complicated to recalibrate, or fussy. Suddenly, you’re spending all your time getting it to work and far too little of your time capturing the data you need.

Instead, opt for a solution like XSENSOR’s HS Tire system, which enables you to set up platforms right out of the box and use them immediately. Plus, they are fully mobile. No longer are you confined to a specific destination, but you can now use them anywhere your tires will go.

Equipment Dedicated to One Test

Even if the equipment is sensitive, reliable, accurate, and reasonably priced, much of what’s on the market is suitable for only one kind of test and remains in a fixed location. This limits testing scenarios.

Instead, it would help if you had good equipment for various applications. Think of tire testing on tracks, machines, drums, and rubber track vehicles. True flexibility allows you to obtain the most valid, rich, and reliable data.

Short Obsolescence

Nothing is more frustrating than finally getting a handle on a system, only to find it no longer works as you need it to. Whether it breaks down or can’t keep up with modern safety demands, any piece of technology with short obsolescence will cost you time, money, and less easily quantified resources (such as the loyalty of professionals who want a stable, enjoyable process at work).

However, systems that don’t let you down after a few months or years are complex. That’s why you need XSENSOR.

Cutting-Edge Tire Design & Performance Testing

If you’re ready to leave frustration behind, then XSENSOR is prepared to help. Our uniquely crafted and exquisitely precise tire design and performance testing systems lead the market for a reason. Not only can we help you profile tires, understand tire bead pressures, and perform tread contact analysis, but we can also do so with the highest level of accuracy.

No matter what kind of automotive niche you’re in, our systems will add granularity and detail to your testing scenarios. From sports cars to family automobiles, trucks to industrial equipment, we offer systems that work wherever you are: aboveground or subsoil, in all weather conditions, down at the track, or on the road.

The possibilities are endless, and the probability is that you’ve never seen tire design and performance data like this. Get in touch to learn more today!