The portable DL350 ensures quality in tire manufacturing at Michelin. As retirement approaches for Reiner Schultheiss, he fondly reflects on his time as an electrical engineer at the Michelin tire manufacturing plant in Homburg/Saar. At the moment operations are running smoothly, with 3000 new tires coming off the production line every day as well as some 1800 retreads.
But it was not always smooth sailing. Reiner began working at the Michelin tire company in the middle of the 1970’s oil crisis. He still remembers the rocketing fuel prices, low sales figures and driving bans on Sundays