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Yokohama Uses AI to Optimize Tire Design Research

Yokohama Rubber has announced that it has developed a new tire design technology that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to apply informatics to the development of rubber materials used in tires and to tire shape design.

Yokohama Rubber has announced that it has developed a new tire design technology that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to apply informatics to the development of rubber materials used in tires and to tire shape design.

Over the years, Yokohama Rubber has aggressively applied simulation technologies to its development of rubber materials and tire shape design. This new technology is expected to greatly increase the speed and precision of the development new high-performance tires, doing knowledge searches previously done by technicians .

In addition to shortening the time required to run such searches, the use of AI leads to a more objective and quantitative analysis of the factors that will contribute to a tire design with a balanced array of performance attributes suitable for various product categories.

The new technology also makes it possible to acquire data from a vast design space that far exceeds the scope of previous studies. This will enable Yokohama Rubber researchers to obtain new design factors that lead to new breakthroughs. They also will be able to analyze the mechanisms important to each design factor, which will help them come up with new development approaches based on those mechanisms.

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