Our customer produces over 70,000 meters of brake hoses every day, which were inspected both by an automated vision system and manually by employees. The existing inspection system often detected defects that were not actually defects, such as slight surface defects or color deviations. This led to a pseudo reject rate of around 5%. In addition, there were several customer complaints, which led to cost-intensive manual re-sorting actions. To significantly reduce the pseudo reject rate and slippage, the Maddox AI inspection system combines the existing camera hardware with the Maddox AI software. Common defect types that are detected include surface defects such as scratches, cuts and other damage from previous production steps.