tire manufacturing industry has a history of more than half a century in iran, where 14 thousand workers are employed. the old and semi-automated processes equipment, backward technology, and raw materials impurity lead to significant exposures to occupational carcinogens such as benzene. this study was to assessment of benzene exposures and evaluation the resulting cancer risk in two tire-manu...

backgrounds and aims: semi automated processes of iranian tire manufacturing factories lead to significant occupational exposures to benzene and toluene compounds. this study was conducted to evaluate the magnitude and risk of workers exposures. materials and methods: personal monitoring of 100 workers (10 groups) was performed using niosh method no.1501 in two tire manufacturing factories in t...

Two separate topics of work are outlined: methods for the measurement of chlorinated monomers in PVC and polychloroprene, and also methods for the measurement of these materials in factory air. Typical results which have been obtained in supplies of raw materials, in finished products, and in the working atmosphere at manufacturing operations are given. The second topic concerns the measurement...

Workers in the rubber industry are exposed to pulmonary health hazards. The main purpose of this study was to assess the combined effect of cigarette smoking and occupational exposures on lung function. The exposed group consisted of tire manufacturing workers in production units and the non-exposed group included executives from the same factory. The researchers calculated the synergy index (S...

ERP system is based on the ideas and methods of supply chain management,and the integrated information management system is developed on the basis of MRP II, it represents the development trend of management revolution of manufacturing enterprises in the information age. [1]ERP system has strong application values in the tire enterprise, its main purpose is to allocate and balance the enterpris...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to evaluate the tire manufacturing work environments extensively and to identify workers' exposure to hazardous substances in various work processes. METHODS Personal air sampling was conducted to measure polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carbon disulfide, 1,3-butadiene, styrene, methyl isobutyl ketone, methylcyclohexane, formaldehyde, sulfur dioxide, a...

background solvents such as benzene and toluene are commonly used in tire manufacturing, and significant occupational exposure to these chemicals adversely affects the health of workers. in biological monitoring, a complementary method for personal monitoring, the internal absorbed dose is measured and individual, environmental, and exposure differences are taken into consideration. conclusions...

Global competition today is forcing tire-manufacturing industries to implement continuous improvement systems that can reduce cost and improve product quality. Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers play a key role in the quality of vulcanized tire. This paper presents a novel method for the performance assessment and controller tuning of temperature control loops in a tire vulcaniz...

Scheduling problems play a big role in manufacturing and planning the production for increasing the production efficiency and assigning the resources to operations. Furthermore, in many manufacturing systems there is a physical space between stages that called intermediate buffers. In this study, a model is proposed for minimizing the makespan of a hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with inter...

In this article, we report the development of a flexible, 3D printable piezoresistive pressure sensor capable of measuring force and detecting the location of the force. The multilayer sensor comprises of an ionic liquid-based piezoresistive intermediate layer in between carbon nanotube (CNT)-based stretchable electrodes. A sensor containing an array of different sensing units was embedded on t...