According to tirereview.com, Michelin North America revealed two fleet-focused innovations at the Technology & Maintenance Council annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee: TreadVision by Michelin Retread Technologies, and Smart Predictive Tire from Michelin Connected Fleet.
TreadVision is an AI-driven platform designed to modernize the commercial retread workflow. It integrates advanced inspection systems, robotics, and real-time data analytics to raise consistency, speed, and build quality across retread plants.
A standout component, called TreadEye, captures 1,200 precise measurement points per tire to map tread depth and casing condition. That level of resolution helps shops make smarter pull-point decisions, better protect casings, and reduce downtime for fleets.
The platform also pairs proprietary AI-powered automated inspection with predictive modeling to spot hidden imperfections and anomalies that traditional visual checks can miss. Automated shearography classification is used for quality control, while mechanized tire handling and standardized build parameters reduce variability on the shop floor.
Michelin says these features are meant to extend asset life, control operating costs, and speed up turnaround in retread plants. The company emphasizes TreadVision is not a replacement for human technicians, but a way to remove repetitive tasks and let skilled workers focus on higher-value work.
Complementing TreadVision, Smart Predictive Tire brings live monitoring and analytics to heavy-duty trailer fleets, targeting Classes 7 and 8. The system streams real-time pressure and temperature data and applies predictive algorithms, including a Smart Leak algorithm, to forecast time-to-critical events and enable proactive maintenance.
European pilot programs produced notable results. Fleets experienced up to 80 percent fewer emergency roadside tire events, saw tire life improve by about 9 percent after correcting chronic under-inflation, and gained roughly 4 percent better fuel consumption when tires ran at optimal pressures.
Executives at the launch framed both products as part of a broader push to improve safety, uptime, sustainability, and overall fleet productivity through data-driven insights. The two offerings pair hardware and software to give fleets clearer information and more time to act before issues become failures.
