Optimización del proceso de mezclado en compuestos primarios en base a la estandarización en el analizador de procesamiento de caucho (RPA 2000) en Continental Tire Andina S. A.

Abstract

Due to the constant technological progress in the tire industry, the company “Continental Tire Andina S.A" has as it finality apply all the technology at its reach for a much better development in the processes within your establishment. For this reason, this company counts with a quality control area such as the Physical-Chemical laboratory, whose finality is the approval of the master batches and final rubber compounds. The use of auxiliary processing tests allows the determination of relevant properties. The Rubber Processing Analyzer, also known as the RPA evaluates the viscoelastic characteristics of the rubber compounds to make way for subsequent tire production processes. With this study it was demonstrated the ability to optimize the characteristics of master batches, by following four reference compounds of higher production in plant, information gathering, analysis, benchmarking, standardization of control curves and ranges , with the RPA 2000 device, resulting in better control of mixing and therefore the ability to take actions to optimize the process at any Mixer. Keywords: Compounds, rubber, mixer, tire, mixes, identification, standardization, equipment, formulation, optimization, RPA 2000, analysis, adjustment, control, master batches.