Case Study: Retrofitting Vision Inspection on an Old Line — 3.2% Yield Gain
The customer didn’t want to replace the line, only to add automatic inspection at key stations and reduce escape rates from manual checks.
Retrofit, don’t rebuild
- Deployment: one edge box per station with an industrial camera, results driving a reject mechanism directly over IO;
- Algorithm: trained on historical defect images, with edge inference plus human review and three model iterations in two weeks;
- Results: escape rate dropped from 4.1% to 0.9%, saving more than three times the equipment cost annually at the customer’s volume.
Retrofit success hinges on not disturbing the existing line rhythm — every new device must be bypassable within thirty minutes.
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