Deep learning (AI) - enhancing automated inspection of medical devices?

Earl Yardley, director at Industrial Vision Systems, writes about the recent impact of automation on the factory floor. Integrated quality inspection processes continue to make a significant contribution to medical device manufacturing production, including the provision of automated inspection capabilities as part of real-time quality control procedures. Long before COVID-19, medical device manufacturers were rapidly transforming their factory floors by leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine vision, robotics, and deep learning. These investments have enabled them to continue to produce critical and high-demand products during these current times, even ramping up production to help address the pandemic. Medical device manufacturers must be lean, with high-speeds, and an ability to switch product variants quickly and easily, all validated to'Good Automated Manufacturing Practice' (GAMP).