CAM-250
One outline on the board is empty: a tool is missing
Mid-morning in the tool room. Spanners, hammers and pliers hang on the blue board, each one over its marked place. One outline is empty: the red marking is there, the tool is not. Beside it, the changeover trolley carries a red foam tray with unfilled pockets. Two operators are working at the bench. Nobody has noticed: the gap only shows if someone looks at the whole board.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- outline with no tool
- shadow board
- foam tray with empty pockets
- operator at the bench
- second operator
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 1empty outlines
- 34tools on the board
- 06:00last check with a full board
- 2 h 40 mintime since that check
- 2people at the bench
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
a board outline is left without its tool at the end of the shift
Then
- mark the gap on the image of the board
- save the video from the last time the board was complete
- send the tooling supervisor both images: the reference one and the current one
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when a board outline is left without its tool at the end of the shift.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
For the workshop manager, a tool that is not in its place is a stoppage waiting to happen: it shows up halfway through a changeover, when there is no time left. IRIS compares the board with its reference image and flags the gap at the end of the shift, not three days later. And if the tool stayed inside a machine, the video shows the moment it came off the board and where it went.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know which tool is missing?
Yes, if the outline is drawn. IRIS compares the board with a reference image and points at the gap. The tool name is set by the plant when the rule is configured: the camera sees the shape, it does not read a catalogue.
Does it work for trolleys and foam trays too?
Yes. Any holder with a fixed place for each item works: boards, trolleys, foam trays or gauge cases. All it takes is for each tool place to be visible from the camera and to stay the same from one day to the next.
Does the board still have to be checked by hand every shift?
No. The camera does the check with every frame. A person only steps in when there is a gap: they get the alert with the picture of the board and the video of the moment the tool left its place.
Other cameras
- CAM-240 · The line has stopped with a pallet jammed inside
- CAM-241 · The line is running, but a gap opens every few seconds
- CAM-242 · A mountain of parts has built up in front of one machine
- CAM-243 · The cell is ready and the bin is empty
- CAM-244 · A copper coil mounted on a steel line
- CAM-245 · A unit moves down the line with no cover on
See it for yourself
A camera looks. IRIS understands what it sees.
An extract of the real screen, no voice-over and hands-free. Each round poses another situation. What sits behind it is a good deal bigger than what you see.
- You draw the line
- It counts by itself
- A number comes out
Next step
Who sees the child who has fallen at the far end of the playground?
13 cases: 12 raise an alert when something happens and 1 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
Who is watching a site where there is almost never anybody?
44 cases, and in every one of them IRIS raises an alert when something happens. You see each image as it is, and then with what it understands on top.
And the best part
Behind one camera you can put a person.Behind four thousand you cannot put anyone.
Adding a camera costs little; adding another pair of eyes does not. So the cameras keep growing and the attention does not. IRIS watches all four thousand at once and flags what matters today.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.