Tim Hanchin

At Bridgestone, our mission is “serving society with superior quality.” As the world’s largest manufacturer of tire products, Bridgestone has a unique opportunity to leverage data and insights to improve manufacturing efficiency. Bridgestone’s Bandag Retread Solutions has over 65 years leading retread innovations. In this talk, we will focus on how our data scientists used Databricks Apps to improve a computer vision model that facilitates decision-making during the tire retread process. We will show how in 3 weeks, a fully-fledged computer vision labeling application could be built using apps, saving our retread SMEs months of manual effort and thousands of dollars in a 3p software. Our talk will also highlight the benefits of choosing Databricks apps to host our solution: - The ease of integration with existing Databricks resources - Out of box compliance with internal security standards - The speed in developing a front-end application, without the need of managing cloud infrastructure