Surface Inspection

Inspection of Bearing Cages

With Maddox AI, the inspection of bearing cages for industrial, railway, and maritime applications is now fully automated. Surface defects such as burrs, roughness, or material flaws are reliably detected—without manual inspectors and with consistently high inspection quality.

Product

Bearing Cages

Industry

Industry & Infrastructure

Total savings / year​

60-80k €

Customer Request

Our customer manufactures bearing cages for rolling bearings used in industrial, rail-bound, and maritime applications. Until now, visual inspection of the components was carried out manually by five specialized employees per shift, using magnifying glasses. Depending on the product type, between 50 and 680 parts are produced daily, with particularly high requirements for surface finish.

The goal was to fully replace manual inspection with an automated system that covers all relevant surfaces.

Before

Previous Inspection System

After

With Maddox AI

Manual visual inspection with magnifying glass by 5 employees per shift.

Fully automated inspection of all relevant surfaces.

Defect rate of approx. 2% despite significant inspection effort. 

80% reduction in defect rate thanks to consistently high inspection quality.

High personnel requirements with limited scalability.

No inspectors needed thanks to a fully automated, scalable AI system.

Before

Previous Inspection System

Manual visual inspection with magnifying glass by 5 employees per shift.

Defect rate of approx. 2% despite significant inspection effort. 

High personnel requirements with limited scalability.

After

With Maddox AI

Fully automated inspection of all relevant surfaces.

80% reduction in defect rate thanks to consistently high inspection quality.

No inspectors needed thanks to a fully automated, scalable AI system.

100%

Automated inspection

0€

Cost for expansion to additional product types

100%

Coverage of all relevant surfaces

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