The problem we are trying to solve is quality control. But, and this is important, there are two kinds of quality control: it can be in-line and off-line. If you want to produce an object, you have to buy a bunch of machines, each of which produces a component of your object and you stack them one after the other to make a line: the production line for your object. All quality control that is made on the production line we call “in-line”. And every machine has its own cameras and its own controls and little parts that it produces, so these systems can be fairly complex. But then, at the end of the line, when the object is complete, there is this one person who grabs a finished object and looks at it. This is called the final control and is in the vast majority of cases done by a human worker.
And this is a very stressful job and very difficult because human eyes get tired. So the level of quality fluctuates during one shift. It also depends on the person; There are very experienced people that have done this job for many years, and there are new people on the job. It’s not homogenous. Further, human inspection traditionally doesn’t leave any track record. If I say that this phone is good and this one is bad - once I have made that decision, there is no evidence substantiating my decision.
What deevio does is to put, next to this person, our system – which is basically a camera and a computer – and instead of this person having to really pay a lot of attention inspecting a specific object, he or she puts that object under our camera, and our camera says “okay, I think this is where you have to look because there may be an issue here”. In essence, we want our technology to augment human quality inspectors.
There are also other benefits for companies that adopt our technology. The camera, like any other camera, takes a picture. That picture is saved. Now, the big advantage is that you have a picture for every product shipped to your customer. And therefore, when the customer says “hey, you shipped me something that wasn’t correct”, you can go back and check exactly that order with its specific pictures, and find out where the fault happened.