Tire tread and sidewall passes through an extruder. Gocator® scans and measures the rubber web’s extrusion groove pattern, geometry, and location.
Rubber Extrusion Profiling
Includes measurement functions such as length, width, height, depth, angle, vertex location, groove dimension, and various other key tire metrology requirements.
Built-In Groove tool
Gocator® supports the inspection of multiple grooves in a single setup. Groove measurements are unaffected by changes in surface angle relative to the sensor.
Flexible Inspection
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High-sensitivity 3D laser line profilers for scanning rubber & tires.
Factory Communication
Measurement values can be communicated over factory networks using Gigabit Ethernet.
The Smart 3D Advantage
Scanning rubber extrusions requires 3D height/depth measurement capability. Every Gocator® comes with 3D surface generation onboard the sensor. 2D solutions do not.
Gocator® sensors scan for the presence, width, and overlap position of key components that make up the body ply.
Body Ply Inspection
Gocator® scans a raised line extruded into the rubber that serves as a reference point for guiding and positioning layers or rubber material that make up the body ply (i.e., a blend of rubber and fabric).
Layer Control
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High-sensitivity 3D laser line profilers for scanning rubber & tires
For scanning very wide targets such as body ply sheets (which can be up to 1m wide), multiple Gocator® sensors are mounted side-by-side across the rubber web for complete high-resolution profiling.
Multi-Sensor Networking
As the various strips of rubber that make up the tire are wound on the tire-building drum, Gocator® scans the strip edges for correct position and to identify defects in the rubber.
Tire-Building Inspection
HIgh-sensitivity, megapixel imager-based functionality generates detailed, accurate cross-sectional shape data regardless of low-contrast black on black rubber materials.
The Smart 3D Advantage
Gocator® detects splicing and stitching issues such as gaps, faulty overlaps, dog ears, and folded material. Gocator® even has the ability to store multiple geometry configurations.
Splice and Stitch Control
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High-sensitivity 3D laser line profilers for scanning rubber & tires.
Gocator® offers built-in measurement tools for strip positions—including multiple groove location, depth measurement monitoring, and automated alignment, with no additional software development required.
Built-In Measurement Algorithms
Final tire geometry systems require complete 3D data to ensure 100% quality inspection.
Finished Tire Inspection
Gocator® scans the tread to ensure a consistent radius from the wheel midpoint to any point on the rim (radial runout), and that there is no sideways motion, or “wobble”, in a tire as it rotates (lateral runout).
Radial and Lateral Runout
Bulge and Dent
Gocator® detect bulges and dents as small as 25 μm in the tire tread and sidewall, with submillimeter accuracy and reliability.
High-sensitivity 3D laser line profilers for scanning rubber & tires
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Web-Based GUI
The easy-to-use web browser-based GUI connects to any common web browser.
Gocator® generates height map imaging for automated code recognition on the tire sidewall.
Tire Markings and DOT-Code Identification
GoMax® delivers 1 TeraFlop of GPU-driven data processing power to any Gocator® sensor (or sensor network) for faster cycle times and overall improved inspection performance.
Accelerated Inspection
DOT-Code Identification
Gocator generates an image of embossed characters as a height map. Its native GenTL driver sends the height-map data to compliant third-party software for automated optical character recognition (OCR).
High-sensitivity 3D laser line profilers for scanning rubber & tires
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Gocator scans painted or lasered tire markings on the sidewall of the tire, including tire size and maximum inflation pressure. It achieves this measurement by generating an intensity image of the marking that is then processed using HexSight or Gocator SDK.
Tire Markings
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Gocator® 3D smart sensors provide high-performance, non-contact 3D scanning for an array of applications essential to the road and rail industries––including rubber extrusion profiling, body ply inspection, tire building inspection, finished tire inspection, and tire markings and DOT-code inspection.
Smart 3D Machine Vision for the Rubber & Tire Industries
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Gocator 2430 and 2440 extend the Gocator 2400 series to cover rubber & tire applications with their high-speed, high-sensitivity performance on dark (low-contrast) surfaces such as tire tread and sidewall.
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Learn how CTI uses Gocator 3D smart sensors to power its latest Tire Uniformity Optimization (TUO) inspection solutions.
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Discover how Gocator® 3D smart sensors leverage high-speed, high-sensitivity scanning capabilities to provide robust quality control to the rubber & tire (R&T) industry.
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3D Smart Sensors and the Advantages of High-Speed, High-Sensitivity Rubber & Tyre Inspection
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Tire manufacturing is a complex operation that consists of many steps, with stringent requirements for quality control throughout the process. Quality control of tires involves inspecting many components, with each component having to satisfy precise location and finished tire specifications
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Minimizing System Complexity in Rubber and Tire Inspection