AI visual inspection deployments

Endress+Hauser Flow in Reinach uses MVTec MERLIC, integrated into its MES, to verify manual flowmeter assembly steps by camera; in use since March 2025.

Stated result rollout to other global sites began in fall 2025

La Próxima Estación runs two KEYENCE IV4 AI vision sensors on its line in Irapuato to detect foreign matter and off-color vegetables, linked to a rejection system it built itself.

Toast installed 6 Instrumental stations across 2 hardware programs to inspect each assembly stage of its restaurant point-of-sale hardware at its factory partners.

Stated result 5.3X ROI, per the vendor

The dairy Gebr. Baldauf uses a mobile cheese-care robot from Eberle whose 4K camera and MVTec HALCON deep learning inspect ripening cheese wheels for mold and defects.

Stated result 100% inspection rate

NVIDIA uses Instrumental's visual AI across its manufacturing network to catch assembly errors on GB200 and GB300 NVL72 server trays before functional test.

Stated result final system builds sped up by up to 14 days

BorgWarner's Changnyeong plant inspects EV power train assemblies with Cognex 3D vision and checks Park-Lock assembly with In-Sight 2800 edge learning systems.

Audi and Siemens brought the AI-based Weld Splatter Detection check into series production in the Neckarsulm body shop; it detects possible weld splatter on vehicle underbodies.

General Motors automated top-coat paint inspection and repair on a moving line with FANUC robots, 3M's Finesse-it robotic paint repair system and Inovision's SMARTInspect.

Rossmann classifies incoming pallets in goods receiving with SICK's camera-based, deep-learning PACS system and assigns them to suppliers with the Tag-LOC real-time localization system.

Arla's dairy in Sipoo, Finland checks every packed yogurt box on its packaging line with a SICK TriSpector1000 3D vision sensor and rejects damaged or incomplete boxes.

Stated result saves a couple of work hours per week

North Carolina contract manufacturer Southern Fabricators uses Eigen Innovations' AI vision system to check welds during production, according to Intel's newsroom.

Stated result paid for itself within six months; fewer rejects on the shop floor

Meta's Reality Labs uses Instrumental imaging stations and AI defect discovery across seven hardware programs, including Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.

Stated result 900+ engineering weeks saved and 6X return on investment in one year

EDEKA and SICK developed the Pallet Classification System at EDEKA's Berbersdorf warehouse: two color cameras and a neural network identify deposit pallet types at goods receipt.

Deutsche Bahn's E-Check at the Cologne-Nippes ICE plant inspects trains with a camera arch of 32 Basler ace 2 cameras and AI that flags missing screws, wear and damage.

Elementary and Rapid Robotics deployed a vision inspection system on site at medical device maker Plas-Tech Engineering to check printed ink on syringes for defects.

Spanish meat producer Prolongo-Faccsa applied AI-powered vision on OMRON's FH Series Vision System to six inspection applications across drying, processing and packaging, in the ALIMENTE21 R&D programme.

Schneider Electric's Chasseneuil plant inspects contactors with Cognex In-Sight cameras and AI models built in OneVision, as a standard to replicate in other factories.

Stated result false reject rate cut by a factor of 70; inspection extended from 5 to 17 control areas; cycle time from 400 ms to 200 ms

H&H Group replaced manual label checks with an OCR inspection system built by Shenzhen Jiangrun Xuneng Technology on MVTec HALCON that verifies batch and expiry codes on packaging.

Aspen's Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville site inspects filled ampoules for foreign particles with twelve cameras and MVTec HALCON deep-learning segmentation, replacing manual checks.

Panasonic Energy's Kansas battery plant uses MVTec HALCON deep learning alongside rule-based vision to inspect cylindrical lithium-ion cells at each step after slitting.

Stated result 57.3% fewer over-detections in the verification test at a plant in Japan

Vaccine manufacturer AJ Vaccines ran a proof of concept with OMRON's FH vision system to count vials automatically in production, as a retrofit to the existing line.

Stated result 100% success rate in vial counting during testing.

At a Nucor metal grating facility, Eigen's OneView software combines thermal images of grate welds with welder process data to inspect every weld inline.

Stated result 100% weld inspection

Henderson Stamping images every stamped home-appliance part and uses Eigen's OneView and a machine-learning algorithm to detect surface defects through the protective film.