AI Vision for Faster Inspections & Smarter Production

Manufacturers are under increasing pressure to catch every defect at full production speed, but traditional inspection systems cannot keep up.

This webinar shows how AI-powered machine vision closes the gap, enabling faster, more accurate inspection while creating a scalable foundation for automation. It also helps customers to understand which vision approach (rules-based, Edge AI, or Advanced AI) is right for their specific applications.

Topics Discussed:

• Simply catching most defects is not enough.
• Trade-offs between increasing line speeds and inspection accuracy.
• The difficulty of detecting subtle, variable, or microdefects.
• The high cost of escaped defects (recalls, downtime, brand damage).
• Overreliance on manual inspection or rigid rules-based systems.
• The challenge of scaling inspection solutions across multiple lines or facilities.

What Attendees Will Learn:

• How to identify whether their application requires rules-based vision, Edge AI, or Advanced AI.
• Where AI delivers immediate ROI and where traditional vision still works best.
• What production-ready AI actually requires (edge processing, usability, scalability).
• How to reduce inspection complexity while improving throughput and yield.
• How to scale from a single use case to enterprise-wide deployment.

About the presenter
Georges Gauthier is a product leader based in the Boston area with deep experience delivering hardware and software products at Cognex. His background spans solution design, software engineering, and major machine vision product launches for logistics and factory automation use cases. He currently leads product management for Cognex’s In-Sight 2D portfolio, with a focus on early-stage product development.