IBM Visual Inspection for Quality enables manufacturers to accelerate visual inspection defect detection process and classify products into defect categories, improving inspection efficiency and product quality
IBM Asia Pacific Software Announcement AP17-0175March 28, 2017
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IBM® Visual Inspection for Quality is a new offering in the IBM IoT for Manufacturing suite of solutions, strengthening and enhancing manufacturing processes with the following capabilities:
- Classifies defects in production images
- Offers manual and automatic training of the system on defects
- Features cognitive capabilities that help quicken the precision-focused process of visual inspection for product quality tracking
- Drives reduction of scrap and human inspection time
- Helps increase manufacturing yield
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| Overview |
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A new offering in the IBM IoT for Manufacturing suite of solutions, Visual Inspection for Quality helps enable transformation for smarter manufacturing and Industry 4.0 through cognitive visual inspection. Visual Inspection for Quality uses cognitive capabilities to review and match incoming defects to defect patterns that it has formerly trained on, and classifies them accordingly. The solution accelerates the tedious and expertise-based visual inspection process to quickly identify and classify defects in the manufacturing process.
Visual Inspection for Quality and Prescriptive Quality for Manufacturing (another IoT for Manufacturing solution) are designed to help enable and accelerate cognitive operations and processes in manufacturing environments. Visual Inspection for Quality works in conjunction with and within the context of the IBM Prescriptive Quality for Manufacturing solution. When integrated, these offerings can bring more certainty to businesses by analyzing a variety of structured and unstructured manufacturing information from manufacturing data sources. Using prebuilt standard analytical models and deep learning models, these solutions can help drive the quality of operations and products, reduce scrap, and increase production yield.
Optional integration with the IBM Watson™ IoT Platform is also possible. This option adds another cognitive layer to the solution by connecting sensors and inputs from the manufacturing floor directly into Prescriptive Quality for Manufacturing and Visual Inspection for Quality. This offers a cost-effective means to connect, capture, and apply analytics to operational data generated by instrumented devices, equipment, and products.
Visual Inspection for Quality is an integral part of the IoT for Manufacturing suite, helping to bring increased intelligence and precision to your manufacturing environment:
- Classifies incoming images into defect classes (if match), or non-defects
- Uses IBM research algorithms to learn from defect patterns
- Provides capability to define and track manufacturing defects by model managers and data scientists, to create more accurate assessments and defect capture strategies
- Is operated on SoftLayer®
- Can improve efficiency and reduce visual inspection times for visual inspectors and inspection supervisors
- Can drive increase in manufacturing yield and reduction of scrap
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| Key prerequisites |
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An internet connection is required.
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| Planned availability date |
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March 28, 2017
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| Reference information |
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For information about IBM IoT for Manufacturing, refer to Software Announcement AP16-0185, dated October 25, 2016.
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| Program number | VRM | Program name |
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| 5737-C11 | Cloud Service | IBM IoT for Manufacturing |
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Specified operating environment
Software requirements
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Product Group: Watson™ IoT
Product: IBM Visual Inspection for Quality
Product Category: Watson IoT
IBM Visual Inspection for Quality (5737-C11)
| Part description | Part number |
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| IBM Visual Inspection for Quality Item per Month | D1SZ9LL |
| IBM Visual Inspection for Quality Item Overage | D1SZALL |
| IBM Visual Inspection for Quality Storage 12 Terabytes per Month | D1T12LL |
| IBM Visual Inspection for Quality Storage 12 Terabytes Overage | D1T13LL |
| IBM Visual Inspection for Quality Graphic Processing Unit Item per Month | D1T16LL |
Charge metric
| Program name | Part number or PID number | Charge metric |
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| IBM Visual Inspection for Quality | 5737-C11 | Item/Terabyte |
Terabyte
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Variable charges apply
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Educational allowance available
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| Country/Region | Announced |
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| ASEAN * | Yes |
| India/South Asia ** | Yes |
| Australia | Yes |
| Hong Kong | No |
| Macao SAR of the PRC | No |
| Mongolia | No |
| New Zealand | Yes |
| People's Republic of China | No |
| South Korea | Yes |
| Taiwan | No |
| Japan IOT | |
| Japan | Yes |
* Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam
** Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka
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