Dairy Distillery, a spirits producer that transforms a milk byproduct into vodka, is using AI-based visual inspection to help maintain brand quality standards and reduce errors that increase operating costs and slow production.

DICA Electronics Ltd is deploying AI decision-support tools to reduce manufacturing quality escapes and gather key data from manual processes to help speed root cause analysis.

It is impossible to overestimate the critical nature of keen and constant visual inspection in any production process. That’s why an advanced vision system is vital for any of today’s advanced production lines – as well as for “yesterday’s” older and more issue-prone lines. 

Color is just one of the many aspects of an effective quality control program that needs to be strategically managed to ensure accurate and consistent end products. However, color can be surprisingly challenging to get right.

An object hanging from a string, moving back and forth, is more than something used to entertain cats or hypnotize patients in old horror movies. It’s called a pendulum. 

A study by McKinsey & Company found that AI-driven quality testing can increase productivity by up to 50% and defect detection rates by up to 90% compared to human inspection.

As nondestructive examination (NDE) continues to evolve as an inspection discipline, so the technologies of NDE evolve to meet new challenges in terms of materials and material geometries to be inspected. 

In a classic Dilbert cartoon, the “client” proudly claims to Dogbert the consultant that “every three months, an existing customer acquires another product.” Dogbert replies, “what if you don’t count warranty replacements?”

Radiant Vision Systems announces the release of the INSPECT.assembly system, a new turnkey automated visual inspection station for in-line assembly verification.

Karl Storz Industrial Group America announced the distribution of the new Karl Storz TECHNO LED NOVA 150 light source for industrial and scientific remote visual inspec-tion applications.