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...

A question of major importance in the auto industry concerns the modeling and improved design of vehicle tires. Tire performance affects the handling performance of the automobile. Many of the variables on which tire performance depends can be calculated from the load and deflection of the spindle in the suspension system for each wheel. The question of tire performance thus becomes a question ...

Justifying the development of a business intelligence system is challenging when the primary beneficiaries of the system are internal to the company responsible for that development; it is even harder to justify when the system is designed to produce a new service that is radically different than current in-house manufactured products. This case explores the possibility of a tire manufacturer d...

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...

excessive production and stockpile of scrap tires cause some environmental and sanitary risks throughout the world. to manage these materials, possible use of soil-tire mixtures has been recently propounded in civil engineering projects. a few studies previously have been conducted to evaluate behavior of clay-tire mixtures, while swelling properties, consolidation and settlement characteristic...