Case Study - Siemens
Situation
Siemens building products are widely used in residential and commercial environments. Many of these products are safety-critical, making rigorous quality standards a top priority. This places high demands on visual inspection systems - demands that must be consistently met.
Challenge
Growing product variety made it hard for Siemens to scale traditional visual inspection systems. Setting up and calibrating vision jobs for new product variants took significant time and effort. Missing defect images led to false negatives, wasting time on investigating issues that did not exist.
Solution
Growing product variety made it hard to scale traditional visual inspection systems. Setting up and calibrating vision jobs for new product variants took significant time and effort. Missing defect images led to false negatives, wasting time on investigating issues that did not exist.
Impact
$10M+ in savings: Through deployment of Ethon's Industrial AI platfrom across 20 factories with further expansion planed.
Higher productivity: By cutting inspection setup time from days to minutes, automating visual inspection, every deployment saves $34,000–$115,000.
Zero complaints: Siemens made a step change towards its 0-customer complaint target by reducing false negatives.
