Michelin Drives Smart Mobility Transformation with Data and AI Leadership
Michelin is stepping up its leadership in smart mobility by leveraging data analytics and artificial intelligence to reshape its offerings and operations. The company is embedding AI into its manufacturing, product design, and mobility services to improve efficiency and sustainability. It has developed more than 200 AI use cases, including tools for inspecting tyres for defects, forecasting demand, and optimising manufacturing processes. One initiative enables real-time monitoring of tyre wear, load and rolling resistance through connected sensors and algorithms, providing predictive insights without dedicated tyre-mounted hardware.
Michelin’s approach blends its deep expertise in tyre physics with digital innovation, allowing it to deliver connected services, fleet-management solutions and data-driven mobility intelligence. This digital shift is not just internal: the company offers solutions to automotive manufacturers, fleet operators and cities aimed at safer, greener, and more efficient mobility. The ambition is to extend tyres from being mere products to being part of an intelligent mobility ecosystem.
Tyre Times’ View:
This move by Michelin underscores how the tyre industry is no longer confined to rubber and tread patterns but is becoming part of a broader mobility technology landscape. By combining AI, connectivity and tyres, Michelin is signalling how the future of mobility will demand tyres that are smarter, more efficient and integrated into data systems. For the tyre sector, this means the ability to compete not just on physical performance but on digital intelligence, durability insights and fleet-level services.
