Manufacturing Success Story
Global construction materials manufacturer (unnamed)2 min read
- return on investment
- 10x
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A world-leading construction materials manufacturer has already seen a 10x return on its investment in Vision AI systems deployed with ClearObject, part of its goal of becoming a lights-out manufacturing plant.
The company's plants across the globe produce drywall systems, plasters, and insulating materials for interior design, building insulation, and design ceilings, as well as external thermal insulation composite systems.
THE CHALLENGE: Automating Visual Inspection in Manufacturing
This manufacturer had a goal of becoming a lights out manufacturing company in their years to come. In doing so they began to explore applying Vision AI to the plant floor and manufacturing process. As they did there initial discovery they determined that there are 140 + possible vision systems that could be applied to increase automation, reduce scrap, increase quality of product and full end to end solution connected to there PLCs.
THE SOLUTION: Model Validation and Delivery of End to End Solution
As discussion began the manufactuer and ClearObject a partnership was soon formed to help reach the goal of a lights out manufacturing plant. The ClearObject team worked with the manufacturer on initial modeling and feasibility to determine the necessary outcomes to be deemed successful. Once the model is trained, the team then deployed that model to the edge allowing for real time alerting to the manufacturing employees and a full connection to their PLC systems.
THE RESULT: 10x ROI on Initial Vision Systems
With each vision system deployed an ROI is attached and as we are two years into the partnership there have been a number of Vision systems deployed solving for damage detection, increase in product quality, and removal of humans in unsafe working conditions. The team at the manufacturer has already seen a 10X return on their investment
TOOLS USED:
- Compute Engine
- BigQuery
- Cloud Pub/Sub
- Secret Manager
- Vertex AI
- Cloud Run
ABOUT CLEAROBJECT:
ClearObject is a digital transformation leader in Internet of Things (IoT) Engineering and Analytics. We deliver global embedded software development environments for our customers, and design and deliver unique data analytics digital products that help them recognize the value of their data.
Frequently asked questions
What do the vision systems do?
Deployed systems solve for damage detection, increased product quality, and removing people from unsafe working conditions. Discovery found 140+ possible vision systems that could increase automation, reduce scrap and improve quality.
How are the models deployed?
ClearObject worked with the manufacturer on initial modeling and feasibility to define success, then deployed trained models to the edge for real-time alerts to employees and a full connection to the plant's PLC systems.