CAM-227
A pillar weld seam that hasn’t closed properly
Body shop. An unpainted body leaves the welding station on its skid. At the joint between the front pillar and the roof there’s a seam highlighted in red: from the outside it looks uneven. Two inspectors in hard hats and safety vests stand beside it; one points at the spot with his hand, the other notes it on a tablet. To the left, the orange arms of the cell. Behind, the next body rolls in. IRIS sees the outer seam and flags the unit.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- pillar seam highlighted
- joint between roof and side panel
- unpainted body on the skid
- inspector pointing at the joint
- inspector noting it on the tablet
- welding robot cell
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 1Joints flagged on this unit
- 2Bodies in frame
- 3People in frame
- 3 minTime since the alert
- 5Joints flagged this shift
The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client’s measurement.
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
the outer seam between the pillar and the roof comes out uneven or incomplete
Then
- alert the body shop with the camera, the time and the body number
- save the picture of the joint and the video of the body leaving the cell
- flag the unit for review before it goes into paint
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if the pillar-to-roof seam comes out uneven as the body leaves the cell.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
In the body shop a badly closed seam usually turns up in sample inspection, and by then twenty bodies have gone through. Watching the outside of the same joint on every unit, with a timestamp, gives the body shop manager something he doesn’t have today: which body it started on and which cell it lines up with. The repair is the same as always; what changes is how many units end up in the batch to be reviewed.
What people usually ask
Can a camera validate a weld?
No. A camera sees the seam from the outside: whether it’s missing, uneven, has spatter, or whether the panel hasn’t seated properly. The internal integrity of the joint is settled by testing or ultrasound, not by an image. IRIS flags what’s visible and stamps it with a time and a unit number; the verdict is signed off by quality with its own method.
Does it cover every joint or only some of them?
The ones the camera can see. You pick the outer seams that matter at that station and watch the same framing on every body, so every unit is compared the same way. Joints inside the structure or hidden by another panel aren’t visible from there, and that’s said up front instead of promised and regretted later.
Does IRIS stop the line when it finds a bad seam?
No. IRIS doesn’t act: it alerts and saves the image. Stopping the line, flagging the unit or letting it run on to review is a person’s decision. The rule for what deserves an alert is written by the plant too: which joint is watched, how strictly and who gets told is agreed before anything is switched on.
A different case every time
Watch what happens. Then watch what IRIS does with it.
Not a recorded video and not a drawing: it’s a summary of the real tool, with a different case each time round. The whole tool doesn’t fit in a box.
- It lands in the tray
- You open it
- You confirm or dismiss
Next step
Who is watching the cameras of a whole branch network?
13 cases: 12 raise an alert when something happens and one only measures. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
How long does it take to find a hand played two hours ago?
12 cases: 9 raise an alert when something happens and 3 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
A recollection can’t be checked.A number can, and it comes out the same every day.
The number doesn’t depend on who was on shift or how they remember it. It’s measured the same way every day, and that’s why people counting is approved by the Centro Español de Metrología. That approval is Spanish and it isn’t equivalent to any U.S. certification: we say so up front and not at the end.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.