Amazon launches vision service for manufacturing
Amazon Web Services has announced a service for inspecting products on manufacturing lines. Amazon Lookout for Vision is a cloud
service, providing a machine learning model that customers can train with their images – as few as 30 baseline images, according to the company – to spot production defects. Te product has no up-front commitment or minimum fee. Instead customers pay by the hour for using it to train the model. Amazon uses a machine learning
technique, few-shot learning, to train the model to classify new data with only a few samples. Lookout for Vision joins Amazon Lookout
for Equipment, Amazon Monitron – both to monitor abnormal behaviour in industrial equipment – and AWS Panorama for what it describes as a ‘suite of cloud-to-edge industrial machine learning services’. Amazon is aiming to open up machine
learning to many more manufacturing plants through Lookout for Vision by removing some of the barriers involved in developing, training, deploying, monitoring and fine-tuning computer vision models. Customers send camera images to
Lookout for Vision in real-time to identify anomalies. It then reports images that differ from the baseline via the service dashboard. Amazon says Lookout for Vision is
sophisticated enough to maintain accuracy with variances in camera angle, pose and lighting arising from changes in the environment. Customers also have the ability to provide
feedback on the results – for example, whether a prediction correctly identified an anomaly or not – and Lookout for Vision will
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automatically retrain the underlying model. Lookout for Vision is available directly
via the AWS console, as well as through supporting partners to help customers embed computer vision into existing operating systems in their facilities. Industrial vision provider Basler is
offering customers complete vision solutions using Lookout for Vision. Te firm’s head of marketing, Gerrit Fischer, said: ‘Basler and Amazon Lookout for Vision provide a very lean architecture to adopt vision-based anomaly detection in any manufacturing site. We’re excited to jointly
‘A very lean architecture to adopt vision-based anomaly detection in any manufacturing site’
provide our customers with complete vision solutions by combining Basler’s expertise in industrial vision and edge platforms with AWS’s investments in industrial machine learning.’ Other Lookout for Vision users include
GE Healthcare and Sweden-based food manufacturer Dafgards. Fredrik Dafgård, head of operational
excellence and industrial IoT for Dafgards, said: ‘We previously tried Amazon Lookout for Vision to automate the inspection of our pizza production lines to detect whether pizzas had enough cheese and the correct toppings, with good results. We’re excited to extend Lookout for Vision to our other production lines, such as hamburgers and quiches, to help us detect any anomalies like incorrect ingredients. Over time, we plan to scale Lookout for Vision across multiple production lines.’
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