Why brownfield?
A brownfield project gives you the opportunity to improve what you already have without replacing more than necessary.
Improve without disruption
Modernize your factory while keeping production running.
Prioritize the right investments
Focus on the areas that deliver the greatest operational and financial impact.
Grow at your own pace
Expand automation as production requirements evolve, increasing the value of your existing assets.
Modernize your existing tire factory without disrupting production
The best time to improve your factory is before constraints become bottlenecks.
An existing tire factory already represents years of investment. The challenge isn’t starting over. It’s improving productivity, flexibility, and operational performance while keeping production running. A phased approach to modernization lets you prioritize the improvements that deliver the greatest business impact.
How Cimcorp Dream Factory works
A single, connected material flow across your entire tire factory. Dream Factory integrates every stage of tire manufacturing from raw material warehouse to shipping into one intelligent automation solution. By synchronizing material flow across the entire process, you can reduce bottlenecks, minimize work-in-process, improve equipment utilization, and keep production running smoothly.
Optimized material and data flows
- Automated Highbay Warehouse (HBW) with stacker cranes for raw materials
- Automated storage with stacker cranes for compounds
- Transportation of compounds from the storage area to component manufacturing by conveyors or Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs)
- Automated storage for semi-finished goods and components
- Transportation of semi-finished goods and components by AGVs
- Monorail transfer systems that transport green tires from building to spraying
- Gantry robot systems for operating the curing buffer
- Monorail transfer systems that transport green tires from curing buffer to presses
- Trench conveyors
- Gantry robot systems for operating the testing and palletizing buffers
- Conveyor systems that transport tires from curing to finishing, through the testing process, and from palletizing to the warehouse
- Automated High-bay Warehouse (HBW) with stacker cranes for finished tires
- Gantry robots to pick orders (shipping buffer) in the dispatch area
- Conveyor systems
Modernize the right way
No two brownfield factories are the same. That’s why we start by understanding your current processes, production constraints, and business goals before recommending the next step.
Together, we’ can help you
Analyze your current operations.
Identify the greatest opportunities for improvement.
Prioritize investments with the highest return.
Integrate new automation with existing production.
Modernize step by step while production continues.
What our customers say
Trusted by leading tire manufacturers worldwide.
“Cimcorp’s control systems are highly intuitive, making operator training very simple. The ease of use of the software systems has allowed us to make decisions in a timely manner in order to optimize production and improve efficiency.”
GITI Tire, SERBIA
Plant Director
“We think highly of Cimcorp’s software, which integrates machinery into a single entity and keeps the flow of material and data under complete control.”
Petlas Tire Corporation, TURKEY
Corporate Equipment Center
“Dream Factory is the driving force. Currently, we can produce 3,800 more tires a day than if our operations were manual. Daily production is around 15,000 tires.”
Sentury Tire, CHINA
President & CEO
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