Manufacturing operations aim to deliver the highest quality during the production or assembly process. Over half of quality checks involve visual confirmation to ensure parts are located correctly, have the right shape or colour and are defect free.

The pickling line is the last step before steel is sold to the market, therefore at each of the five round-the-clock shifts a human inspector continuously monitors the strip after pickling. Surface defects are flagged and determined according to the type of defect, resulting in inefficient, manual, work in a hazardous environment.

The earlier issues are detected and more frequently they are checked, the better they can be addressed, reducing emergency repairs that shut down machines and cause customer dissatisfaction. By automating visual quality inspection manufacturers will save time and money and improve customer satisfaction.

“BrainCreators were always open and transparent about intelligent automation, only promising what they could achieve without the usual hype stories about AI”

Johan Bernard, Manager Process Engineering, Tata Steel Europe