South KoreaManufacturing2021 – ongoingHankook Tire
Virtual Compound Design for tire formulation
Hankook Tire reported cutting tire development time by up to 50% with AI compound predictions
Problem
Evaluating tire formulations required physical production and testing, with results taking several dozen days.
Approach
Hankook Tire used its in-house Virtual Compound Design tool from 2021. Researchers adjusted material inputs and received predicted performance before physical testing. The company passed predictions to compound-development teams for further refinement.
Results
Takeaway
AI predictions moved formulation screening ahead of physical testing; prototypes still underwent subsequent tests.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Business function
- IT and R&D
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Predictive analytics and ML
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
Dong-A Ilbo described VCD during a research-center visit and observed predictions arriving in just over 10 seconds. A company researcher attributed development-time reductions of up to 50% to the approach.
Full details are in the original sources.
