Inspection, integrated.

Defects escaping a manual line.

Operators sampled parts on two lines, so some defects moved to later stages before detection. A previous vision pilot performed well in the lab but lacked an MES connection and a process for flagged parts.

Built for the plant floor, not the demo.

We began with integration. The vision system runs at the edge alongside existing cameras and writes each result to the MES as a pass, flag, or hold event using the plant's existing schema.

Flagged parts route to a human for a fast visual confirmation before a hold is issued, so the system's judgment is checked before it stops a line.

Edge inference, MES-native events.

Inference runs on edge hardware within the line's takt time. Results post to the MES, and an operator console shows flagged frames for review. A single audit log records model and human decisions for each part.

Fewer escapes, same line speed.

Coverage moved from sampled to full inline inspection on both lines without slowing takt time, because inference and the human check both run inside the existing cycle. Escape-defect rate dropped in the first full quarter of operation, with every hold traceable to a specific frame and decision.