Detect-It CEO Kevin Kerwin Featured in Quality Magazine

Detect-It President and CEO Kevin Kerwin co-authored a feature article in Quality Magazine alongside Matt Davis, CTO of PTZOptics, examining how AI-powered visual inspection is evolving beyond simple pass/fail defect detection toward what the authors call "visual reasoning" — the ability to analyze live video, verify sequences, and ask not just "Is there a defect?" but "What happened, when did it happen, and what can we learn from it?"

The article covers how manufacturers across automotive, aerospace, food and beverage, and packaging are deploying AI vision systems that go beyond isolated inspection to support assembly verification, process monitoring, operator training, and traceability. It also addresses the critical architectural decision manufacturers face between cloud-based and on-premises AI vision deployments — and why, in Kerwin's experience, almost all manufacturers are requiring AI vision to work locally rather than over the cloud.

Key takeaways from the article include the importance of starting with a specific manufacturing problem rather than trying to "implement AI" broadly, the role of PTZ and robotic cameras in expanding what visual reasoning can see, and how integration with PLCs, MES systems, and quality databases is often the harder challenge once an AI model is trained.