ServicesV — Industrial Applications: Production, Quality and Warehouse

Visual Quality Control

Surface, Assembly and Label Inspection with Cameras

What problem does it solve?

Visual inspection varies from shift to shift, and full inspection is not possible by hand. By the time a defective part reaches the customer it costs a multiple of what it cost on the line.

How do we build it?

With a camera and lighting arrangement matched to line speed, we run models for surface defects, missing or wrong assembly, and label verification. The decision is not a bare pass/fail: each one arrives with a confidence value and the region marked on the image, so the operator can see what the system looked at.

What changes?

Every part judged by the same criterion, with the decision stored alongside the image. Borderline cases go to a person rather than being rejected automatically; the threshold is set against the line’s own tolerance.

When is it time to start?

You need a point on the line where a camera can sit, and examples of the defect to be caught. If defective samples are scarce we start by looking for deviation from good parts; a classifier needs examples collected first.

How do we work?

We start with one defect type at one station. Once image collection is in place, labelling follows and the model is measured off-line against recorded images. Going live, it runs in parallel with human judgement for a while; thresholds are set from that comparison.

When is it not the right fit?

Supplying cameras, lighting and mechanical fixtures is not in this service; we plan the optical setup together with your integrator. Not every defect is visible to a camera — internal cracks or material composition are not a fit for this method, and we say so up front.