How it works

Good parts in. PASS, FAIL and a record out.

Five steps from an empty station to a part-by-part inspection record. The station flags; a person decides.

01

Seat good parts

Pick one part number. Take good parts from your line, the ones that would ship today, and seat them in the fixture one at a time. The setup wizard takes about 60 photos. You do not need a single bad part to start.

  • Same fixture, same light, same angle for every photo
  • Good parts only; normal tool marks and finish variation are part of 'good'
02

Train on the station

The model looks at small patches of every good photo and remembers what normal looks like for this part. Training runs on the station. When it is done, the station knows your part, under your light, in your fixture.

  • One model per part number
  • Retrain when the part, finish or fixture changes
03

Inspect every part

Seat a part. The station compares each patch of the new photo with what it learned. Anything that looks unlike every good part raises the score and lights up on the heatmap. Above the threshold the part is FAIL and goes to the HOLD bin.

  • PASS or FAIL plus a heatmap of where it looks different
  • Flagged parts go to a person, not straight to scrap
04

A person decides

The inspector looks at the flagged part and the heatmap and makes the call. If they disagree with the station they override it and write a reason. Both verdicts are kept, so you learn where the model is too strict or too loose.

  • Overrides need a written reason
  • The AI verdict is never overwritten
05

Keep the record

Every inspection is saved with the photo, heatmap, lot, serial, operator and model version. The dashboard shows defect rate, false rejects and the cost of scrap. Export to CSV whenever a customer or auditor asks.

  • Per-part record with photo
  • Date-range reports and CSV export
Go deeper

The ideas behind it.

Training without defect photos →

Escapes vs false rejects →

Lighting for visual inspection →

Why train on good parts only?
Good parts are easy to collect and defects are rare and varied. A model that learns what normal looks like can flag a defect it has never seen, because that defect does not look like any good part.
How is the threshold set?
In a pilot we agree on a test set of good and rejected parts with you before we start. The threshold is set so that no rejected part passes, and we report how many good parts were flagged as false rejects.
What happens when my part changes?
A new revision, finish or fixture means new good-part photos and a retrain. Each part number keeps its own model, so changeovers do not affect other parts.

Try it on your parts.

$3,500 pilot on one part number, station on loan, 30–60 days. The fee is credited toward a station if you buy within 30 days.