Have you ever wondered how car tyres are made? In this video, you're going to see that you need much more than just a rubber. Subscribe to Discovery UK for more great clips: ru-vid.com_c... Follow Discovery UK on Twitter: / discoveryuk
actually the process that is shown in this video is explained so simply to prevent confusion. it is much more complicated than it is shown in this video
A perfect example of how quantity in demand determines the price of an object. If not so many tires were needed the average person could surely not afford them after all the time and work that goes into production, construction and servicing the machines needed and so forth. Very interesting and eye opening video.
In 1908 Goodyear was able to increase production (per worker) from 5 tires for a 10 hour day, to 60 tires for a 10 hour day; with their new Seiberling State Tire Building Machine. It would be nice to know how fast the machines are that were in the video. Looks like the process still takes a few stations to pull off.
@@TheFeatInk .. What is it you don't understand? Nothing is the other was around, but exactly as I stated. Please read it again. I believe we mean the same, but you are misunderstanding.
One of my favourite memories of childhood are the days when we'd be taken to a factory to watch bread being baked, beer brewed and put into bottles made onsite from molten blobs, or tyres handmade. Watching the robots reminds me how hard the bloke we saw was working to make his quota, yet how skillfully he placed each layer and cut it perfectly to measure.
,,I got bitches in the livin' room gettin' it on And, they ain't leavin' til' six in the mornin' (six in the mornin') So what you wanna do? Shit I got a pocket full of *rubbers* and my homeboys do too" (Snoop Dogg, Gin and Juice)
I work at a tire plant and I have to say TOYO tires makes their tires complete different than all of the other tire manufacturers, their tech is super advanced and secret
I don't care how crappy or how nice your car is. 1 thing that is always the same is that feeling you get when you put a brand new set of tires on. Doesn't matter if they are cheap or expensive either, just fresh and new.
Im obsessed with tyres. When I look at used cars the first thing I look at is the tyres to see how much tread is left and how they have worn as it gives an idea of how the previous owner looked after the car and how they drove it. New tyres, always enjoy getting a new set all round.
Hi guys, very impresive presentation, well documented, easy to understand and very explicit, most kind of you for shearing this outstanding program with us, keep up the good work.
This Video was done in our plant in Korbach. That is the oldest Continental plant. We have around 20 plants around the globe and not all are alike. The process is the same everywhere but with different stages of digitalization.
Hahahaha we are working in tyre industry only but ppls thinking in tyre industry workers working under heat and smell buy the situation is different no smell comes from rubber and plant fully tem maintain under 25 only 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As a retired Industrial Engineer from Akron BF Goodrich tire plant I must say. WOW! I used to time study tire builders and, I am amazed at the automation used today.
I worked at Firestone SA as people Mechanical Engineer in training during the early 1980's. Later on, there was a project to increase the capacity of the Plant, I became part of the Project Team, working with four different nationalities on the management team. This is a fascinating process. Quite a lot of ingredients to built a tyre as reflected In the video. Taken me back over 40 years.
When you think about it, tires are a technical marvel. If somebody told me that a piece of rubber supporting the weight of 2 tons, rolling against concrete at over 100mph every day for years and doesn't immediately breakdown, I'd never believe it.
It's crazy how smart certain people have been in this world to make ALOT of things and even the machines with all the mechanisms to make a ton of them. Crazy!!
Probably the tooling and processes are provided by the same suppliers to your company and Continental. But its the rubber compound and the tread pattern is what makes the difference.
Lol I did the same thing with my front tires. Had one finally pop on the freeway a few months ago and had to pull over and put on the spare tire. Be prepared for when that happens 😬
What's more amazing is engineering such machines that are capable of producing such quality tires! How long it took the machine designer to come up with the compound method for example!
Arabic, Everything is possible. It only seems impossible from the outside. Impossible not meaning that no one has done and no one will do it. It means that the chance is low.
This is the second How It's Made video I've seen where they use the term wheelrim. When a non-car person tries to talk about cars you get a word like wheelrim
Yup, I work in a tire factory. It's like this for every single tire, and seeing what the builders do making Semi/Bus tires makes me appreciate my job cutting the rubber that goes into them. 😁
It doesn't smell like that, it more so smells like chemicals and compounds being burned and some tires even smell like you're curing a skunk in a press. Definitely not a pleasant smell unless you're at the end of the line doing repairs or inspecting them. But even cutting breaker from the FPs made on the calendar line they smell like dog shit
Thats a complex process, very interesting. I was imagining a far simpler process with dozens of tyres just going along a production line. Wonder how many tyres a factory like this will make in a day.
@@Brandon57871 I think I've heard of Douglas, but not much about them. I had Nitto Neo Gen 215/40 R18 on my car, switched to Michelin Pilot Sport 225/40 R18 and holy shit the difference is incredible. My car is a pile of shit and I remember being able to spin my tires in the rain with the brand new Nittos, but I can't with these Michelins.
It’s blurred at the end but in the beginning it’s not also next to where it’s blurred is some sort of logo or seal and I’m pretty sure it says continental so it defeats the purpose of the blur.
With tubeless tyres you can do so many things. Used for cars motorcycle etc. Cushion for parking. High bounce for dropping iron and stones. Wading through waters. Inlays for floods. Electric cable protection. Etc.
I'm pretty sure they're custom made by just one company. Give me a sec and I'll put a link to a video that goes a bit in depth about it. Edit: Here it is, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1thfmpxXOyM.html
Man, as I am in the U.S. I wish “How it’s Made” would make a “Tires” video. I know “tyre” is similar but on opposite sides of the road. I guess the orientation of all the machinery is backwards in Tire factories.
Lucas Patrick dude Really what’s the difference The reason it’s called tyres is because words are spelled differently over there in the UK Like this Color and Colour
Super Mario Jesus no it isn’t they’re called tyres because they’re used to drive on the left side of the road while tires are used to drive on the right
It's also worth mentioning that there are different kinds of rubber for different weathers and surfaces. For example we have to swap winter and summer tires at fall and spring respecively. The one in video would be a summer tire.
0:05 Invention of pneumatic tyres in the early part of the twentieth century?? No. Robert William Thomson in 1845. It was tubeless tyres that were patented in 1903, by Goodyear.
