Leighton R. Spadone
Areas of Expertise: Manufacturing Technology
CAREER SUMMARY
President of DAAS, Tire Technology and Data Analytics Consulting firm with tire manufacturing clients in Romania, China, India, and Poland. Expert Witness for Earthmover Tires R&D, manufacturing, and mine site performance retained for London Arbitration between Titan Tire and BHP Billiton Group Mines in Feb2017.
Chief Technical Officer, Eurotire Inc. responsible for managing OTR Tire technology, including Compound Formulations, Curing Systems, Manufacturing Processing, Material Technology, Tire Design, Statistics, Application Programming, Quality Assurance, and Technical Services for Radial OTR Production.
R&D Technical Associate at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Akron OH with a record of success in Materials Research, Compounding, Tire Curing, Radial Truck and OTR Product Development, Manufacturing Process Development, and Design of Experiments and Modeling, Project Management, Data Modeling, and experience in SAS and JMP technical application program development. International assignments in Jamaica, Brazil, and Indonesia. Domestic assignments in Danville, Topeka, Fayetteville, Jackson, and Tyler.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
2020 “CURE PROFIT ENGINE” ITEC Tire Conference.
2018 “DMPH: Predicting OTR Tire Deflection”
2017 “Rubber Mixing Uniformity” 2017 ITEC and ACS Rubber Division and published in RPN
2016 “Overview of Tire Curing Technology” University of Akron
2016 “Paired Design for Treadwear Testing” ITEC and published in RPN Magazine
2015 “Efficient Paired Design Treadwear Testing and Analysis” ACS Rubber Division
2015 “Introduction to Split Plot Design's Analysis” Central Ohio JMP Users Group
2015 “Predicting OTR tire TMPH field ratings from Test Wheel results” ITEC Tire Conference
2007 “Predicting Radial Truck and Passenger Road Tire Performance from Test Wheel results” ASTM Papers
Recognized as an expert in Heavy Tire Curing Methodology, with strategies that reduced cure times by 40% for Radial Truck and EM Tires.
Expertise in Radial Truck and Earthmover tire compounding for all tire components. Assigneed as a compounding consultant for all major R&D product groups including Radial Truck & EM Tires, Passenger and Light Truck, Farm and Aircraft.
A Manufacturing Product Development and Formulation Creation Specialist who is knowledgeable in Quality Systems Analysis and applying Statistical Process Control to reduce cost and variation.