Everything we know, written down

Assessment guides, process whitepapers, pilot playbooks, technical references and an ROI model. Written for plant directors, quality leads and process engineers rather than for search engines.

No gates on technical referencesUpdated as the product ships

Written for

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The autonomy readiness assessment

Score your plant before anyone sells you anything

Four dimensions, six questions each, scored zero to three. It tells you which wedge is realistic first, what sensing you are missing, and whether your change-control process can absorb bounded autonomy at all.

  • Sensing coverage — what is measured, at what rate, and stored where
  • Data linkage — can you connect a graded tire back to a compound batch
  • System integration — MES, historian, PLC and inspection accessibility
  • Change control — who can approve a setpoint change, and how fast

Request the assessment

treadum · readiness score (example)
sensing coverage 14 / 18 good
data linkage 7 / 18 weak ← start here
system integration 12 / 18 good
change control 15 / 18 strong
total 48 / 72
recommended wedge defect & inspect (cell tier)

Which resource to read when

Exploring

Readiness assessment + detection economics whitepaper

Establish whether the problem is worth solving at your plant and which process has the most recoverable value.

Building a case

ROI model + cure-state whitepaper

Put numbers against scrap, energy, throughput and warranty using your own baseline.

Scoping

Pilot playbook

Structure the 90 days: baseline, metric, gates, override reviews and the go / no-go decision.

Reviewing

Envelope specification + security pack index

Give safety and IT/OT teams what they need before the technical review meeting rather than during it.

Deploying

Genealogy data model + IATF evidence mapping

Align your quality and data teams on what the runtime will produce and how it maps to your existing system.

How the library is organized

Never gated

The envelope specification, genealogy data model and API references are available to anyone evaluating us. Gating technical documentation behind a form is a tax on the people who most deserve to read it.

Practitioner-first

Written by engineers who have run the assessment on real floors, not by a content team.

Method included

Every number comes with how it was measured, over what period and with which caveats.

Operational

Meeting cadences, roles, decision rights and templates you can actually run.

Yours to keep

Spreadsheet models you can edit, audit and take into a CFO conversation without us in the room.

Full library index

Full library index
TypeTitleForAccess
GuideThe tire plant autonomy readiness assessmentOperationsOn request
WhitepaperFrom sampled audits to per-component measurementOperationsOn request
WhitepaperCure-state control and the energy padOperationsOn request
PlaybookRunning a 90-day autonomy pilotOperationsOn request
ReferenceThe control envelope specificationEngineeringOpen
ReferenceGenealogy data modelEngineeringOpen
ChecklistIATF 16949 evidence mappingOperationsOn request
ChecklistOT security review pack indexOperationsOn request
CalculatorPilot ROI modelFinanceOn request

Documents marked “On request” are sent by email without a sales sequence attached. [ASPIRATIONAL] Some documents are in preparation ahead of the design-partner cohort.

How teams use the library

“We had three people watching X-ray images and still shipped uniformity rejects. Treadum flagged the cord shift at the building drum, not four hours later at final inspection.”

Ilse VandermeerPlant Director, passenger radial plant [PLACEHOLDER]

“The cure agent found 40 seconds of margin on a construction we had run the same way for eleven years. It proved it in shadow mode before it touched a press.”

Rahul MenonPrincipal Process Engineer, truck & bus radial [PLACEHOLDER]

“Genealogy is the part I did not expect to care about. Every tire now has a linked record from batch to grade, and audit prep went from weeks to an afternoon.”

Camille DuarteQuality Systems Manager, IATF 16949 site [PLACEHOLDER]

[PLACEHOLDER] Design-partner quotes are illustrative until pilot references are published.

About the library

No. Ask for what you want and it is sent. If you want a conversation afterwards, you will ask for it.

Yes. They are written to be circulated to quality, process, IT and finance teams inside a plant or group.

They ship with conservative defaults and every assumption is editable and labelled. You should stress-test them against your own numbers.

They are updated as the product ships and as design-partner results become publishable. Anything not yet validated is marked [ASPIRATIONAL] inside the document.

Put one cell on autonomy in 90 days

Pick one wedge — splice inspection, X-ray defect detection, cure-state optimization or uniformity prediction. We baseline it, run shadow mode, then graduate to bounded autonomy under a signed control envelope.

Pilots start in shadow mode. No line changes until accuracy and safety gates pass.