Tire Giant Michelin Drives Digitalization with RFID
The Tags Are Resistant to High Temperatures and Mechanical Stress
Small Tag, Big Impact
The tag itself has a very small memory and is encoded with a unique 96-bit identifier for each individual tire. Michelin uses the standardized identifier SGTIN-96, as described in ISO 20910, which is a serialized version of the GS1 Global Trade Item Number (GTIN).
The tags are resistant to both high temperatures and mechanical stress in the tire production process, as well as to the physical influence of tire materials such as steel and rubber.
The tags are designed and sized to be embedded in casings. The sensitivity of the tags is so versatile that the reader hardware used at numerous interfaces in the tire life cycle can easily capture the data.
15 Million RFID Transponders Per Year with an Encapsulation
The encapsulation of the RFID tag and the subsequent embedding in the side of the tire create a permanent connection between tire and transponder. Removal of the tag leads to the destruction of the tire. The encapsulation of the RFID tag and the subsequent embedding into the side of the tire connects the tire to a cloud database for the retrieval of tire data.
Advantages for Workshops
Every stakeholder in the tire ecosystem has the possibility to capture the tags with a handheld or a fixed RFID reading infrastructure and will be able to access a cloud-based database with all information about the respective tire. This will be done via a standardized industry solution that is currently in development by ETRTO (Tire Information Service) and a standardized API.
