Portable Quality Inspection

Portable Quality Inspection enables Quality managers and operators to early detect and fix quality issues in their production lines and consequently optimize production costs by reducing defective products and increasing quality and, therefore, productivity.

Quality areas of a production plant use to work under a lot of pressure, trying to serve products in time with the zero defects and trying to reach their customer’s expectations. Although they have tools and technics to support its business, those are neither allowing them to react timely nor reducing the defects ratio at the desired level.

Portable Quality Inspection is a 100% business oriented solution that uses AI-powered computer vision, based on Amazon Lookout for Vision on the AWS platform, to inspect produced parts for the early detection of defects, hence, alerting in time and easing the decision-making process for quality managers. Before the implementation of Portable Quality Inspection, the inspection operation was done only at intermediate fixed points, at the final stage of the production or through direct-eye visual inspection of an operator. Right now, with Portable Quality Inspection, manufacturers can bring quality controls to any stage of the production line, adding new intermediate inspections of the parts in just a matter of hours.

The pillars of Portable Quality Inspection are founded in:

• Portability: you should be able to put a visual inspection point in any place of your shop floor.
• Objectivity: you need to reduce the subjectivity of humans to categorize a part as defective.
• Temporality: you need to run visual inspections for a type of defects during a certain period. Afterwards you need to perform the same analysis in another place or with a different type of defect.
• Autonomous usage: quality areas should be able to autonomously create their own use cases, without the intervention of data scientists or IT specialists.

With the use of Portable Quality Inspection, the quality areas are able to create the AI algorithms to ensure the detection of the different parts that you are producing in any of your plants according to their standards, the operators of the production lines have - on a real-time basis - important information to decide whether to rework a part or to remove it from the line and the quality management can monitor the whole production quality at a glance and not only the quality from fixed quality control points or from sampling of parts.