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Manufacturing Apps Bring Decision-Support to the Factory Floor icon

Manufacturing Apps Bring Decision-Support to the Factory Floor

This whitepaper discusses how adding automated decision-support to manual processes speed inspection rates, improve end-to-end quality, and provides more qualitative product evaluation for repeatable and traceable manufacturing.

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AI Consistency for Subjective Human Decisions icon

AI Consistency for Subjective Human Decisions

Learn how manufacturers are reducing costs and ensuring product quality with new app-based technologies that that make human decisions consistent, reliable and trackable

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Bringing AI to Electronics Assembly Inspection icon

Bringing AI to Electronics Assembly Inspection

This whitepaper discusses Industry 4.0 initiatives, manufacturing and assembly automation and decision-support tools for manual visual inspection, and data-based decisions for future planning, reporting and tracking.

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Simplified AI for Visual Inspection of Electronics icon

Simplified AI for Visual Inspection of Electronics

This whitepaper shares insights from electronics manufacturer using inspection apps to help operators detect errors such as incorrect components and orientation, solder defects, and through hole issues, for unique component…

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Improving Visual Inspection Quality with AI icon

Improving Visual Inspection Quality with AI

This whitepaper discusses new visual inspection systems that leverage advances in no-code algorithm development and edge processing platforms make it easier and more cost-effective for manufacturers to add AI decision-support…

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Simplifying AI Deployment for Quality Inspection icon

Simplifying AI Deployment for Quality Inspection

This whitepaper discusses the basics around AI and machine learning, and common deployment concerns for organizations.

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Improve Production Yields With Hybrid AI icon

Improve Production Yields With Hybrid AI

This whitepaper introduces "Hybrid AI" - a novel approach that combines the best of established machine vision processes and new AI capabilities.

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Case Study: No Code Hybrid AI in Inspection icon

Case Study: No Code Hybrid AI in Inspection

Learn why one company facing issues related to pharmaceutical inspection is evaluating AI and "no code" algorithm plug-ins

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The Benefits of User Experience Design in Product Development icon

The Benefits of User Experience Design in Product Development

This whitepaper provides a brief overview on UXD, and then illustrates how this design approach uses customer data to better ensure products help meet the goals of their intended end-users.

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Machine Vision Makes the Move to Internet of Things icon

Machine Vision Makes the Move to Internet of Things

This paper discusses how machine vision can bring cost and performance benefits to Internet of Things applications, while enabling new machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities,

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Edge Processing Whitepaper

This paper discusses smart devices and edge processing as an asset to machine learning and AI capabilities as the space advances towards Industry 4.0 and IoT.

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The Networked Operating Room icon

The Networked Operating Room

This paper examines the use of GigE Vision interfaces in medical technology, highlights their unique advantages through application examples, and considers future developments in the medical field.

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Bringing AI to Quality Inspection icon

Bringing AI to Quality Inspection

As published in Quality Magazine

Adding automated decision-support for human operators helps speed visual inspection rates and improve product quality.

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GigE Vision Converter Software icon

GigE Vision Converter Software

As published in Vision Spectra

The eBUS Edge™ software from Pleora Technologies Inc. converts embedded platforms, sensors, and cameras into GigE Vision devices.

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Automation and Decision-Support for Manual Inspection icon

Automation and Decision-Support for Manual Inspection

As published in Vision Systems Design

Automating manual inspection speeds inspection rates, improves end-to-end product quality, and provides more qualitative product evaluation to ensure manufacturing processes are repeatable and traceable.

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GigE gives 3D lease of life icon

GigE gives 3D lease of life

As published in IMVE

Greg Blackman speaks to Pleora’s James Falconer about the latest versions of GigE Vision

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Building a twin icon

Building a twin

As published in IMVE

Pleora's Jonathan Hou offers insight into explores the efforts underway to improve connectivity in factories.

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Simplifying AI Deployment for Quality Inspection icon

Simplifying AI Deployment for Quality Inspection

As published in Quality Magazine

Adopting a hybrid approach that marries classic and machine learning techniques for quality inspection can simplify deployment.

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USB Brings Cost and Connectivity Advantages to Imaging icon

USB Brings Cost and Connectivity Advantages to Imaging

As published in Quality Magazine

As the USB standard has evolved, new opportunities for the technology are emerging in the traditional imaging market. More so, as machine vision moves into new markets, USB is a…

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NBASE-T Brings New Bandwidth to Imaging System Design icon

NBASE-T Brings New Bandwidth to Imaging System Design

As published in RTC Journal

Advances from the telecommunications and networking market are driving continuing innovation that makes imaging more accessible and easier to use across a widening range of applications, with new NBASE-T technology…

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Vision Advantages for Military Imaging

As published in MVPro

Ethernet brought flexible networking, wider computing platform choice, and cabling advantages to real-time imaging. For military designers facing the same networking, computing, and cost challenges – plus an increasing demand…

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Machine Vision Brings Cost and Performance Advantages to Military Imaging icon

Machine Vision Brings Cost and Performance Advantages to Military Imaging

As published in Electronic Military & Defense

Military system designers are migrating to networked digital distribution technologies perfected in the factory automation market to meet cost and size, weight, and power (SWaP) demands, support future scalability, and…

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Five Trends for Imaging Technologies

As published in Quality Magazine

Technology development moves at a dizzying pace. Check the newswire, and you’ll ­ find a list of new products that leapfrog what was heralded as the “latest and greatest” just…

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Imaging Systems on the Move icon

Imaging Systems on the Move

As published in World Railway (China)

Imaging technologies perfected for manufacturing processes are being integrated into monitoring and inspection systems for railway applications. By adopting Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) systems widely deployed in manufacturing, ITS designers can…

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Simplify AI for Automated Inspection icon

Simplify AI for Automated Inspection

Pleora's AI solutions, including edge processing and an algorithm development platform, allow manufacturers to deploy advanced inspection capabilities with keeping proven machine vision infrastructure and end-user processes.

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Pleora Visual Inspection System Application Snapshot icon

Pleora Visual Inspection System Application Snapshot

Pleora's Visual Inspection System reduces quality escapes and gathers key data from incoming, in-process, and final manufacturing steps. Integrated Inspection apps require just one image to start, and automatically highlight…

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AI Decision-Support for Electronics Inspection icon

AI Decision-Support for Electronics Inspection

DICA Electronics uses Pleora's Visual Inspection System to reduce manufacturing quality escapes and gather key data from manual processes to help speed root cause analysis. The system uniquely requires just…

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Mixing Vodka and AI for Brand Management icon

Mixing Vodka and AI for Brand Management

Fast-growing distillery with unique spirits made from milk deploys Pleora's new Visual Inspection System to add AI-based decision-support for labelling and quality control.

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Simplify 3D Imaging for Machine Vision Inspection icon

Simplify 3D Imaging for Machine Vision Inspection

Pleora's eBUS Tx software solution simplifies deployment of 3D for inspection applications. Add GigE vision connectivity to 3D devices, without additional hardware, to ensure interoperability with existing machine vision processing…

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Networking for Machine Vision with eBUS Edge icon

Networking for Machine Vision with eBUS Edge

Streamline networking for advanced sensors and embedded processing. Pleora's eBUS Tx software solution helps machine vision designers to simplify interface design and deployment by converting any imaging device or sensor…

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AI for Situational Awareness icon

AI for Situational Awareness

Pleora's sensor networking platform and AI expertise helps designers add decision-support capabilities to manned and unmanned systems.

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Military Sensor Networking and AI icon

Military Sensor Networking and AI

Pleora's sensor networking and AI expertise helps simplify design and deployment of digital intelligence for advanced situational awareness. Pleora's RuggedCONNECT Smart Video Switcher solves real-time networking challenges to acquire and…

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AI for Military Imaging icon

AI for Military Imaging

Tools and expertise to help military manufacturers design and deploy advanced AI digital intelligence and situational awareness applications, with a fully integrated sensor networking platform with powerful processing to analyze…

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Pleora AI Gateway: Pharmaceutical Packaging Inspection icon

Pleora AI Gateway: Pharmaceutical Packaging Inspection

Automate or add decision-support for manual pharmaceutical packaging inspection

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Pleora AI Gateway: Logo and Symbol Inspection icon

Pleora AI Gateway: Logo and Symbol Inspection

Easily train an AI system to ensure logos and printing meet brand standards and compliance requirements.

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Pleora AI Gateway: Automated Measurement icon

Pleora AI Gateway: Automated Measurement

Eliminate manual errors that slow processes and cost money by adopt AI to accurately measure samples, such as product packaging.

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Leverage GigE Vision Enabled Block Cameras for Machine Vision Applications icon

Leverage GigE Vision Enabled Block Cameras for Machine Vision Applications

Join Pleora and Skoopia to learn how new combined block camera and GigE Vision external frame grabber solutions simplify machine vision applications. In this roundtable webinar Yves Wintraecken, Chief Marketing…

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Combine Excel and AI to create Digital Work Instructions icon

Combine Excel and AI to create Digital Work Instructions

Learn how to easily create AI-powered checklists and work instructions by converting Microsoft Excel sheets into automated AI applications. With no programming knowledge required, Vaira's AI capabilities automatically detect and…

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Simplifying AI Model Creation icon

Simplifying AI Model Creation

Smart imaging applications like 'image compare' and 'object detection' help Manufacturing and assembly use AI to avoid errors earlier in processes. Learn more on: -How to easily and quickly build…

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How AI is Transforming Electronics Manufacturing icon

How AI is Transforming Electronics Manufacturing

Learn how AI applications like 'image compare' and 'object detection' help Electronics Manufacturers vastly improve manual inspection with Dwayne Lachance, Product Manager, Pleora.

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Protect Your Business with AI for Visual Inspection icon

Protect Your Business with AI for Visual Inspection

This webinar will discuss how two manufacturers – a distillery and an electronics assembly operation – are using camera-based visual inspection to protect their brand and make manual processes repeatable,…

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eBUS Edge - Cost and Design Advantages for Sensor Design icon

eBUS Edge - Cost and Design Advantages for Sensor Design

This live webinar will introduce the new technology, and describe how it is helping manufacturers quickly and cost-effectively design or upgrade imaging solutions for more advanced applications, including 3D inspection…

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The Future of Pharma – Reducing Risks and Costs with Hybrid AI icon

The Future of Pharma – Reducing Risks and Costs with Hybrid AI

This on-demand webinar discusses how AI can help pharmaceutical manufacturers ensure product quality. In particular, the session discusses how AI can automate and add decision-support for manual inspection processes while…

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The Future of Food – Reducing Food Inspection Costs and Errors with Hybrid AI icon

The Future of Food – Reducing Food Inspection Costs and Errors with Hybrid AI

This on-demand webinar discusses how AI and new sensor technologies can help manufacturers reduce costly errors and automate manual tasks in food inspection. The session covers the evolution of AI…

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Real-Time Sensor Networking and Machine Learning for Military Imaging icon

Real-Time Sensor Networking and Machine Learning for Military Imaging

This webinar hosted by Pleora provides an overview on the role for real-time sensor networking and AI in military imaging systems, including driver enhancement and local situational awareness C4ISR applications.…

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“I need AI! What is AI?” icon

“I need AI! What is AI?”

Artificial intelligence is undoubtedly one of the most hyped technologies of recent times, and with market hype comes a lot of confusion. And it's OK to be confused - Pleora…

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Deploying Hybrid AI to Reduce Inspection Costs icon

Deploying Hybrid AI to Reduce Inspection Costs

Think AI is too costly or complex? Watch this on-demand webinar hosted by Pleora Technologies for practical insight on using "hybrid AI" to add advanced capabilities alongside existing inspection systems…

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e2v Customer Conversation icon

e2v Customer Conversation

With origins dating all the way back to the 1940s, e2v is a well established and trusted name when it comes to high-reliability solutions for systems in the medical, aerospace,…

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Dexela Customer Conversation

A dynamic company that specializes in innovative technologies for fast, low-dose x-ray imaging recently joined Pleora’s community of customers. We spoke with James Brodrick, Senior Electronic Engineer and Project Manager…

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Vision Engineering Solutions Customer Conversation icon

Vision Engineering Solutions Customer Conversation

Vision Engineering Solutions boasts decades of experience designing, building and testing advanced electro-optical sensors and data collection systems for defense, aerospace and industrial applications. We spoke with Steve Testa Director,…

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Compression and Machine Vision icon

Compression and Machine Vision

Just how important is compression in today’s ever-increasing technological world and what exactly is compression, be it lossless or lossy? Before we venture into how compression plays such an important role in machine vision, let’s first examine the need for both lossless and lossy compression in general. Lossless and lossy video compression represent two different methods …

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A Celebration of Innovation, Industry, and Growth icon

A Celebration of Innovation, Industry, and Growth

The manufacturing industry is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by advancements in automation, robotics, 3D printing, and Industry 4.0. These innovations are reshaping production processes, enhancing efficiency, and significantly reducing environmental impacts, revolutionizing the manufacturing world. Automation The latest developments in these technologies are coming thick and fast and are revolutionizing the world of manufacturing …

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Exploring 3D Trends in Machine Vision Industries: Tomorrow’s Vision Today icon

Exploring 3D Trends in Machine Vision Industries: Tomorrow’s Vision Today

Machine vision technology has come a very long way in recent years. With this, the integration of 3D capabilities has become a real game-changer for numerous industries. Let’s explore some exciting trends and advancements in 3D machine vision technology that are reshaping the way we perceive and interact with the world around us. From manufacturing …

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The Vital Role of Connectivity in Machine Vision Industries icon

The Vital Role of Connectivity in Machine Vision Industries

Machine vision technology has revolutionized the manner in which we perceive the world, ranging from manufacturing processes to medical diagnostics. This very advanced field relies heavily upon the capability of machines to both see and interpret visual data, making it an essential component of automation and quality control across numerous industries. Connectivity plays a critical …

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The Indispensable Role of Humans in Manufacturing icon

The Indispensable Role of Humans in Manufacturing

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a game-changer in various industries, and manufacturing is no exception. The integration of AI technologies in manufacturing processes has significantly enhanced efficiency, productivity, and cost-effectiveness. Despite the advancements in automation, humans still play an indispensable role in manufacturing. With its ability to process vast amounts of data, AI can optimize …

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Decision-Support for the Factory Floor icon

Decision-Support for the Factory Floor

Despite decades of technology advances, humans remain a critical component to many manufacturing processes. For many small and medium sized enterprises the cost of automating production for short-run or customized products is uneconomical. However, from a quality assurance perspective, many are interested in technological advancements than can aid human operators in subjective decision-making, for consistent …

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VisionChina Shanghai

With over 300 exhibitors and 90,000 visitors, VisionChina Shanghai was a welcomed event for our team post-COVID — and the three-day event did not disappoint. In our standard booth space, we had four product demonstrations ready for visitors: Automated Applications Our eBUS Studio development platform reduces complexity, cost, and time for manufacturers and integrators designing and deploying …

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Unveiling the Power of Transforming Product Traceability in Manufacturing icon

Unveiling the Power of Transforming Product Traceability in Manufacturing

In fast-paced manufacturing markets, product traceability is crucial for success. Traceability refers to the ability to track and trace the movement of products throughout the manufacturing process, from raw materials through to the end customer. This process involves capturing and recording relevant information about the product, such as its origin, manufacturing date, and batch number. …

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Implementing Machine Vision and AI into Your Manufacturing icon

Implementing Machine Vision and AI into Your Manufacturing

As the manufacturing industry continues to embrace automation and digitization, technologies like artificial intelligence and machine vision, can unlock new levels of efficiency, transparency, and customer trust. By harnessing the power of machine vision, the manufacturing industry can transform its production practices and pave the way for a more secure and sustainable future. Implementing machine …

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The Future of Assembly Instructions icon

The Future of Assembly Instructions

Technology is constantly evolving, and it comes as no surprise that even assembly instructions in manual manufacturing are undergoing remarkable transformations. Gone are the days of paper documents, and confusing diagrams. Enter the era of machine vision, where cutting-edge technology enhances the quality and efficiency of assembly instructions. Machine vision utilizes advanced imaging systems and …

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Leverage GigE Vision Enabled Block Cameras for Machine Vision Applications icon

Leverage GigE Vision Enabled Block Cameras for Machine Vision Applications

Join Pleora and Skoopia to learn how new combined block camera and GigE Vision external frame grabber solutions simplify machine vision applications. In this roundtable webinar Yves Wintraecken, Chief Marketing…

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Combine Excel and AI to create Digital Work Instructions icon

Combine Excel and AI to create Digital Work Instructions

Learn how to easily create AI-powered checklists and work instructions by converting Microsoft Excel sheets into automated AI applications. With no programming knowledge required, Vaira's AI capabilities automatically detect and…

Register to watch on-demand
Simplifying AI Model Creation icon

Simplifying AI Model Creation

Smart imaging applications like 'image compare' and 'object detection' help Manufacturing and assembly use AI to avoid errors earlier in processes. Learn more on: -How to easily and quickly build…

Register to watch on-demand
How AI is Transforming Electronics Manufacturing icon

How AI is Transforming Electronics Manufacturing

Learn how AI applications like 'image compare' and 'object detection' help Electronics Manufacturers vastly improve manual inspection with Dwayne Lachance, Product Manager, Pleora.

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Manufacturing Apps Bring Decision-Support to the Factory Floor icon

Manufacturing Apps Bring Decision-Support to the Factory Floor

This whitepaper discusses how adding automated decision-support to manual processes speed inspection rates, improve end-to-end quality, and provides more qualitative product evaluation for repeatable and traceable manufacturing.

Download Whitepaper
AI Consistency for Subjective Human Decisions icon

AI Consistency for Subjective Human Decisions

Learn how manufacturers are reducing costs and ensuring product quality with new app-based technologies that that make human decisions consistent, reliable and trackable

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Bringing AI to Electronics Assembly Inspection icon

Bringing AI to Electronics Assembly Inspection

This whitepaper discusses Industry 4.0 initiatives, manufacturing and assembly automation and decision-support tools for manual visual inspection, and data-based decisions for future planning, reporting and tracking.

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Protect Your Business with AI for Visual Inspection icon

Protect Your Business with AI for Visual Inspection

This webinar will discuss how two manufacturers – a distillery and an electronics assembly operation – are using camera-based visual inspection to protect their brand and make manual processes repeatable,…

Register to watch on-demand
Simplify AI for Automated Inspection icon

Simplify AI for Automated Inspection

Pleora's AI solutions, including edge processing and an algorithm development platform, allow manufacturers to deploy advanced inspection capabilities with keeping proven machine vision infrastructure and end-user processes.

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Pleora Visual Inspection System Application Snapshot icon

Pleora Visual Inspection System Application Snapshot

Pleora's Visual Inspection System reduces quality escapes and gathers key data from incoming, in-process, and final manufacturing steps. Integrated Inspection apps require just one image to start, and automatically highlight…

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AI Decision-Support for Electronics Inspection icon

AI Decision-Support for Electronics Inspection

DICA Electronics uses Pleora's Visual Inspection System to reduce manufacturing quality escapes and gather key data from manual processes to help speed root cause analysis. The system uniquely requires just…

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Mixing Vodka and AI for Brand Management icon

Mixing Vodka and AI for Brand Management

Fast-growing distillery with unique spirits made from milk deploys Pleora's new Visual Inspection System to add AI-based decision-support for labelling and quality control.

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