Faced with the challenge of monitoring changes in tread wear for a wide selection of tires, Bandag R&D selected an Arnone Consulting solution. The results of each “tire run” experiment are stored in a SQL Server database. A VB user interface calculates the impact of several variables on tread wear across a series of tire runs and displays the results in a variety of formats. The application allows Bandag R&D to create a historical repository of its experiments and track progress in its efforts to minimize tread wear.