In part one of this article, we covered some of the advantages of AI for visual inspection and discussed how an electronics assembly company is using the technology to help human inspectors and track products. In part 2, well look at how a distillery uses the system for packaging inspection. 

Product perfection is now an expectation for consumers, which places far more pressure on manufacturers to always deliver. Surprisingly, a great deal of quality control and inspection still relies on the human eye and subjective decisions.

“I want the best of both worlds.” Sammy Hagar likely wasn’t singing about machine vision and AI while fronting Van Halen, but it’s a hot topic for manufacturers.

As system designers and integrators navigate through Industry 4.0, Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI), it is clear that they must balance the best solution for the problem and plan for integration with existing infrastructure and processes.

DICA Electronics Ltd is deploying Pleora’s Visual Inspection System to reduce manufacturing quality escapes and gather key data from manual processes to help speed root cause analysis.