Catch every scratch, dent, and finish defect — at line speed.
solutions - surface defect detection
Human inspectors miss surface defects at rates of 20-25%, especially at the end of a long shift on high-gloss or complex surfaces. Detect-It runs live AI visual inspection on every part, every cycle, every shift — catching what human eyes miss before a defective part reaches the customer.
the numbers
25%
HUMAN INSPECTOR ERROR RATE ON REPETITIVE VISUAL INSPECTION
<1%
DETECT-IT ERROR RATE ON TRAINED SURFACE DEFECT NETS
820
INSPECTIONS COMPLETED IN 30 MINUTES AT A TIER 1 AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIER
In a single 30-minute run on one production line, Detect-It completed 820 inspections, identified 65 failed parts, and reduced cycle time from 54 seconds to 35 seconds — driving over $600,000 in documented savings for a Tier 1 automotive supplier. Customer-reported results.
THE PROBLEM
WHY SURFACE DEFECTS ESCAPE HUMAN INSPECTION
Surface defects — scratches, paint blemishes, dents, finish irregularities, and cosmetic damage — are among the most common causes of warranty claims, customer returns, and quality escapes in manufacturing. They're also among the hardest to catch consistently.
Human inspectors fatigue over a shift. Attention drifts on repetitive inspection tasks. Lighting conditions change. High-gloss and complex surfaces create glare and shadow that make defects harder to see with the naked eye. The result is an inspection process that works reasonably well on part one of the shift and increasingly poorly on part five hundred.
Traditional machine vision systems require precise, controlled lighting, fixed camera angles, and significant engineering effort to set up — and they need to be rebuilt from scratch for every new part. They're also expensive, proprietary, and slow to deploy.
THE DETECT-IT SOLUTION
AI that sees what human eyes miss — trained on your actual parts
Detect-It trains an AI neural net directly from a video of your actual parts — not a generic model, not a demo dataset. Shoot a short video of your part moving through the inspection station, label the defect types you want to detect, and Net Builder trains a working detection net in hours.
Net Runner deploys that net to your production line and runs live detection on every part, every cycle, 24 hours a day. When a defect is detected, the system generates a real-time alert, logs the event with a timestamp and image, and can trigger a reject signal to your PLC or MES system — all without a single line of code.
no coding required
Any operator or quality engineer can build and deploy a surface defect detection net. No data scientists, no IT, no Python.
any camera, any pc
Runs on any off-the-shelf USB or IP camera and any NVIDIA GPU PC. No proprietary hardware required.
behind your firewall
Runs entirely on-premises. Your part images, defect data, and trained AI models never leave your facility.
your ip, forever
Every net you build belongs to you outright. Patent it, license it, or keep it proprietary — Detect-It has no claim.
If it can be seen by a camera, Detect-It can be trained to detect it. Don't see your specific defect type listed? Send us a video and we'll show you what Detect-It finds.
see it in action
see it on your parts before you decide
Send us a video. We’ll create a custom neural net with our AI Software and show you exactly how Detect-It looks running on YOUR parts — at no cost.