A significant portion of the manufacturing process for consumer goods, parts, food & beverage, and print & packaging still relies on manual tasks performed by human operators. Here are five common mistakes we can make in manufacturing steps.

One of the key areas where visual inspection is still critical to quality control is in electronics inspection. While mass produced consumer goods benefit from machine vision, there is still a place for skilled human inspection for custom or short-run products..

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 still relies on the human eye and subjective decisions.