Method and system for controlling the manufacture of rubber products in response to the physicochemical properties of a rubber mixture

A method for controlling the manufacture of rubber products produced by a rubber-product manufacturing system comprising a production facility having at least one mixing means that performs successive steps of mixing a rubber mixture, the method comprising the steps:

• a step of initiating a mixing cycle that is performed at the production facility;
• a step of capturing ambient air of the production facility in order to obtain at least one gas sample during the mixing cycle, this step being performed by an odor detection device of the system that recognizes a presence of odorous volatile organic compounds present in the ambient air received in the odor detection device by measuring a concentration using surface plasmon resonance;
• a step of detecting olfactory profiles present in the ambient air and captured by the odor detection device;
• a step of identifying an olfactory profile in order to identify a rubber mixture exiting the at least one mixing means and a production status thereof, this step being performed on a basis of at least one sample of ambient air captured by the odor detection device;
• a step of analyzing the at least one sample captured by the device against one or more surface plasmon resonance imprints supplied by the odor detection device and extracted data represented therein;
• a step of constructing at least one olfactory-profiles model from physicochemical properties of an identified rubber mixture, this step comprising a step of introducing the physicochemical properties of the identified rubber mixture into a neural network, this step being performed by the system;
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• a step of training the olfactory-profiles model using the olfactory profiles of the identified rubber mixture,
• wherein an output olfactory-profiles model identifies physicochemical properties of a rubber mixture in a process of being produced in the production facility.