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We have learned a typical 

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tire environment is quite [text on screen: Dan Paul, Global Business Leader, Tire Industry] 

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corrosive. Rockwell started hearing 

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from our customers that machines 

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were unexpectedly going 

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down. Failures 

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of the products result in unplanned [text on screen: Paul Leone, Principal Engineer, Quality & Reliability] 

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downtime and lost production, 

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and it's really that simple. The main driver 

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was the trend towards miniaturization. So 

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when you look at products that were made 20, 30 years 

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ago, they were much larger than what 

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they are today. So, as you decrease 

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the size of these products and you're packing 

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more and more technology in there, 

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the spacing between these conductors 

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and components inside there, becomes 

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smaller and smaller. 

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So now the tiniest bit of corrosion 

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can now bridge across 

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conductive surfaces 

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and create failures of the components 

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themselves or the product itself. 

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So, we decided that we were going 

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to spend some time, money, 

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to research this topic, understand 

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what's going on. We partnered with some 

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of the largest tire manufacturers in the world 

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and put together a cross functional team 

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here within Rockwell Automation, 

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and we looked at this from a holistic perspective. 

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So not just, you know, what can we do in 

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the electronics, but what can we do in these spaces 

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where these environments are. One of 

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the first things is, looking at how the 

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products are installed. We also need to look 

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at how robust the enclosure is. The 

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second step was really looking at, 'okay, 

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what can we do to our products to harden them for 

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these environments?' We have the ability now 

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to be able to test our products in an accelerated 

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fashion to be able to see what 

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types of mitigation strategies work and what 

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don't. So in our Milwaukee Chemistry 

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and Materials lab right now, we have 

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two, custom built, mixed flowing 

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gas chambers that were very specific 

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to this project. So the capabilities 

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that we needed, the sizes that we needed, 

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one of them is probably the largest chamber that 

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we're aware of thats ever been manufactured for something 

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like this. It really gave us a lot of 

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confidence that we were 

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understanding this problem and 

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quite frankly, had a good, viable 

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solution for our customers. 

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Modern electronics will struggle if 

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you don't protect it either with 

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a conforming coating or robust 

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enclosure. They will fail. They will 

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cause downtime. 

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It is a very unique challenge and takes 

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a unique skill set that a lot of companies 

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don't have.

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The customers that have followed our 

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advice have seen a reduction 

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in the number of failures, the 

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number of downtime events. So that's that's 

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a huge benefit. Their production stays 

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up. They can make the tires that they expect 

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to make.

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