Detect manufacturing defects in real time using Amazon Lookout for Vision

In this post, we look at how we can automate the detection of anomalies in a manufactured product using Amazon Lookout for Vision. Using Amazon Lookout for Vision, you can notify operators in real time when defects are detected, provide dashboards for monitoring the workload, and get visual insights from the process for business users. Amazon Lookout for Vision is a machine learning (ML) service that spots defects and anomalies in visual representations using computer vision (CV). With Amazon Lookout for Vision, manufacturing companies can increase quality and reduce operational costs by quickly identifying differences in images of objects at scale. Defect and anomaly detection during manufacturing processes is a vital step to ensure the quality of the products. The timely detection of faults or defects and taking appropriate actions is important to reduce operational and quality-related costs. According to Aberdeen's research, "Many organizations will have true quality-related costs as high as 15 to 20 percent of sales revenue, in extreme cases some going as high as 40 percent." Manual inspection, either in-line or end-of-line, is a time-consuming and expensive task.