Computer Vision and Image Analytics

Over the past few months, I've been working on a fascinating project with one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to apply SAS Viya computer vision to help identify potential quality issues on the production line as part of the validated inspection process. As I know the application of these types of AI and ML techniques are of real interest to many high-tech manufacturing organisations as part of their Manufacturing 4.0 initiatives, I thought I'd take the to opportunity to share my experiences with a wide audience, so I hope you enjoy this blog post. For obvious reasons, I can't share specifics of the organisation or product, so please don't ask me to. But I hope you find this article interesting and informative, and if you would like to know more about the techniques then please feel free to contact me. Quality inspections are a key part of the manufacturing process, and while many of these inspections can be automated using a range of techniques, tests and measurements, some issues are still best identified by the human eye.