Test & measurement The Inspekto S70 is the world’s first
Autonomous Machine Vision system. Designed with the manufacturer in mind, the system is suitable for any quality assurance, gating or sorting application. The system’s arm is flexible enough to be installed on any machine, at any angle and position to get the required field of view (FOV). The system’s visual sensor, comprising all camera, lenses and lighting components, has a wide range of capabilities to suit different applications. In addition, the fact that AMV systems
are an off the shelf product – and not a lengthy integrator project – removes the lead time of ordering the components for traditional machine vision solutions. The Inspekto S70 can be delivered as soon as the purchase order is received, and it can then be implemented upon arrival in the plant. In addition, as Inspekto, as a vendor, represents the cost structure of one company. This means purchasing a system from Inspekto is unlike purchasing components from the many vendors involved in a traditional integrated solution, which
generates savings that are passed on to the customer in the form of the very affordable prices. Finally, thanks to the several artificial intelligence (AI) engines underlying the S70’s ‘brains’, very minimal configuration is required of the manufacturer’s employees and the system will self-adapt and self-adjust to its environment. For example, no proof of concept (POC) creation nor any solution development is required from an external integrator to set up the system. Once installed the system will self-adjust to any changes on the line or the lighting environment. Furthermore, once the manufacturer has
set up an Inspekto S70 system, it is not fixed forever to that point on the production line, unlike a traditional solution would be. If at any time in the future the QA manager identifies another point on the line that would benefit more from visual QA, the system can be moved from its original location to the new one. Additionally, if the system is not required for a period of time, it can be stored and then re-installed as necessary in a couple of hours. This state of affairs is drastically different
from that of machine vision solutions of the past, where moving a solution from location to another would in most cases be either impossible, due the new location’s specific physical and components requirements, or require a very notable bill of waiting time and cost for an integrator to make the necessary change.
Complete autonomy
If any adjustment is required with an installed Autonomous Machine Vision system, it will perform self-diagnosis to identify the issue, significantly reducing the mean time to repair (MTTR). It can set up its own parameters and use its intelligent capabilities to test itself and report back to the QA manager. The QA manager requires no specific training to achieve this, all is built into the system and it is easy to use. Autonomous Machine Vision offers very
fast MTTR. For example, if the system’s visual sensor apparatus is faulty it can be efficiently fixed or replaced by a member of the factory QA team. This is in stark contrast to traditional solutions, which would require the return of the integrator to suggest tests, figure out the problems and attend the site to correct it — a time-consuming and costly process. The improvement in operational efficiency
offered by Autonomous Machine Vision represents, as Shigeo Shingo said, something we have never done before. Advancements in machine learning, artificial intelligence and optics have made Autonomous Machine Vision possible, paving the way for the Inspekto S70. Manufacturers can now finally benefit from powerful visual QA systems with no downtime, very short implementation lead times, rapid diagnostics and far less testing, training and spare parts.
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