Scanning tires of different sizes during transport

On tire manufacturing lines and in distribution warehouses, tires of different sizes are transported together, making individual management and ensuring traceability important challenges. With conventional barcode readers, variations in reading distance due to differences in tire size caused focus issues, leading to reading errors, production line stoppages, and shipping mistakes.

KEYENCE's SR-5000 Series logistics code reader solves these problems. With its overwhelming reading range and deep depth of field, there is no need for advance product changeovers or cumbersome setting changes, even when the size of the tires on the conveyor changes and the distance to the reader varies. It instantly and stably reads DataMatrix and QR codes printed on the sides of tires transported at high speed.

Furthermore, its proprietary algorithm reliably decodes even challenging codes printed on low-contrast materials like rubber or on curved surfaces. This dramatically improves the accuracy of process and inventory management in the tire industry, achieving productivity improvements and the construction of a highly reliable traceability system.