AI-based visual inspection: Build or Buy?

Automated image processing has been a core component of industrial quality control for decades – typically based on traditional, rule-based systems and externally sourced software solutions. However, the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence is changing how many companies approach this area: internal development projects are receiving significant budgets to build proprietary AI solutions.
Whether this approach leads to lasting competitive advantages or inefficient use of resources depends on a range of strategic and economic factors.