Surface Inspection, Retrofit

Optimization of Wire Cable Inspection

Upgrading to Maddox AI Software optimized the existing camera system to the point that manual re-inspections became unnecessary. Maddox AI’s consistent, fully automated 100% quality inspection reliably detects defects such as wire breaks, knots, corrosion and many other types of defects.

Product

Wire Cable

Industry

Infrastructure

Total savings / year​

40 - 50k €

Customer Requirements

Our customer produces many kilometers of wire every day, which are then wound into ropes. The quality control of these safety-critical components is carried out both by installed cameras and by two employees who manually inspect the recorded images again and examine them for defects. The inspectors’ fluctuating inspection accuracy led to both customer complaints and increased scrap costs due to pseudo rejects. The Maddox AI system ensures that no defects are overlooked and that a consistent inspection performance is achieved at all times.

Before

Previous Inspection System

After

With Maddox AI

The quality check is now fully automated, which has significantly reduced the manual effort and considerably increased the efficiency of the checks.

The quality check is now fully automated, which has significantly reduced the manual effort and considerably increased the efficiency of the checks.

On average, only 50% of the rejected parts were really faulty. 50% of the parts could still be sold without any problems.

Thanks to the increased precision of the Maddox AI inspection system, the pseudo reject rate has been reduced by around 65%, thereby avoiding unnecessary costs.

On average, only 20% of the rejected parts were really faulty. 80% of the parts could still be sold without any problems / with minor reworking.

Thanks to the increased precision of the Maddox AI inspection system, the pseudo reject rate has been reduced by around 75%, virtually eliminating re-inspections and avoiding unnecessary costs.

Before

Previous Inspection System

The quality check is now fully automated, which has significantly reduced the manual effort and considerably increased the efficiency of the checks.

On average, only 50% of the rejected parts were really faulty. 50% of the parts could still be sold without any problems.

On average, only 20% of the rejected parts were really faulty. 80% of the parts could still be sold without any problems / with minor reworking.

After

With Maddox AI

The quality check is now fully automated, which has significantly reduced the manual effort and considerably increased the efficiency of the checks.

Thanks to the increased precision of the Maddox AI inspection system, the pseudo reject rate has been reduced by around 65%, thereby avoiding unnecessary costs.

Thanks to the increased precision of the Maddox AI inspection system, the pseudo reject rate has been reduced by around 75%, virtually eliminating re-inspections and avoiding unnecessary costs.

100%

Digitized Analyses

0 € Costs

for the extension to further error classes

20 Months

Investment Payback Period

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