Did you know that artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing Quality Control (QC)?
AI-based QC (AIQC) is quickly becoming the norm in ensuring quality standards for manufacturing and production. In many cases, AIQC is combined with AI-powered video inspection to detect production errors faster and with far greater accuracy than human QC inspectors.
This video-inspected AIQC, I guess we will refer to it as VIAIQC, is especially adaptable at identifying and classifying defects ranging from missing components and contents to cracks, chips, and breaks in finished goods, improper assembly, and fabrication failures such as defective welds. In many cases, this new technology outperforms human co-checking. This technology can also ensure precise inventory management, from order fulfillment verification to stock-level inspection.
Another area of this emerging technology is worksite safety. VIAIQC acts like safety inspectors, viewing worksite activities to determine potential and, in some cases, immediate threats to worker safety. Sometimes, the input comes from video surveillance and worker GPS technologies (such as those associated with time-keeping apps on a worker's phone). In other cases, aerial drone videos with pinpoint GPS locations can provide sufficient information for AI to determine developing risks.
This technology is almost certain to expand into many business areas, including machinery operation safety and QC, assembly line operational safety and QC, vehicle operations safety and QC, and almost every aspect of companies that have routinely relied upon human quality control personnel for inspection and documentary audit.
So, while many people are concerned that AI will take over their 'work', AI may actually become your next supervisor or Quality Control Inspector at the very least.