Manufacturing and Industrial
Software for Rubber Manufacturing
Compound-then-cure production, where a mixing batch that drifts off specification fails only after it has been moulded.
Rubber is made twice. First the compound is mixed — polymer, fillers, oils and curatives weighed to a recipe — and then it is shaped and vulcanised under heat and pressure. A batch mixed a few percent off its recipe can look identical until curing, when hardness, tensile strength or scorch time are wrong and every part moulded from it is scrap. The record that matters is which batch went into which parts.
What gets in the way
- Compound batches are weighed by hand and the actual weights are not recorded
- Hardness and rheometer results are kept on paper, not against the batch
- Compound shelf life is not tracked, so scorched stock reaches the press
- Cure time and temperature per press are set by habit rather than by recipe
- Flash and trim waste is written off without being measured
- A field failure cannot be traced back to the mixing batch
What the software handles
- Recipe issued to the mixer with ingredient weights per batch
- Actual weights and mixing time recorded against the batch number
- Batch tested for hardness and cure characteristics before release
- Released compound issued to presses with shelf-life date
- Moulding recorded by press, cure time, cavity and batch
- Trim waste and rejections recorded by cause
What changes
- Every finished part traceable to the compound batch it came from
- Off-specification batches held before they reach a press
- Material cost per part including flash and trim loss
- Cure parameters compared across presses and shifts
Software for your rubber manufacturing business
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