For high-mix, low-volume production
We implement AI inspection around your products, quality requirements, and production line. Your team can introduce similar products and variants in minutes, without retraining, within the implemented process. Extending inspection to similar lines and adjacent processes is straightforward and effective.
Inspection technology
Tekai combines its own computer-vision models, image processing, and foundation models to inspect products on your production line. We implement this for the process and quality requirements. A reusable core architecture supports expansion to similar lines and adjacent processes, while standard industrial cameras keep capital costs low without proprietary hardware, also in multi-image inspections such as THT.
Anomaly detection
Tekai’s AI identifies anomalies beyond predefined defect types and flags them for operator review. This extends inspection to problems your team may not have anticipated, helping you catch new defects before shipment and maintain quality as production changes.
High-mix, low-volume production
Inspection can cover a wide range of products, including simultaneous product variants, when implementation is complete. We agree on the coverage for your process. Built-in tools let your team add similar products and variants in minutes within the implemented process, without retraining. New product categories need only limited, targeted retraining. This reduces the setup work that makes short production runs expensive and time-consuming to automate.
Process optimization through defect data
The system saves defect images, their locations and related metadata, giving your quality team evidence to investigate issues and choose corrective actions. These records enable process improvement based on defect data, so inspection supports both instant quality control and medium- to long-term process development.
Inspection approaches
Conventional automated optical inspection (AOI) and traditional machine-learning approaches require continuous data collection, engineering and configuration work to keep up the automation against new products.
Tekai combines computer vision, image processing, and foundation models to inspect a broad product mix and flag unfamiliar anomalies. Within the implemented process, your team can add similar products and variants in minutes without retraining, and new product categories need only limited retraining. This significantly reduces repeated setup work.
New variants
Data collection
Engineering
Configuration
Repeat for every new product
Continuous setup work
New variants
Built-in tools
No model retraining
Flags unfamiliar anomalies
New variants in minutes
First implementation in 1–3 months
Your team shares its automation goals and quality requirements. Together, we review the line(s), production environment, and constraints to define an optimal inspection solution setup.
We plan camera coverage for the process and enable capturing images needed to implement the AI. We plan together a visual data collection that aligns with your production process.
Tekai implements the AI and inspection logic for your process. Your team then tests and validates the solution in a production-like environment before live deployment.
Once your team validates the solution, we deploy it on the line and integrate it with your production systems and operator workflows.
Industries
The inspection task determines how we implement the solution. These application areas reflect our current expertise and provide a starting point for assessing fit with your business and production teams.
Visual inspection across THT, coating, box-build, and mechanical processes
Quality control of welding seams
Inspecting labels on incoming parts and finished packages
Visual inspection, measurement, and counting for your parts and components.
Visual inspection for e.g. molded plastic products and related assemblies.
Real-time analysis of wood material and products
On-site analysis of recycled materials
Experience
Automotive
Our team provides an AI inspection system for a major globally operating automotive supplier. The system is used in multiple factories in Europe.
Development, support & maintenance
Electronics manufacturing
A leading international electronics manufacturing services company is implementing Tekai’s AI visual inspection for a changing product mix.
Implementation to production
Packaging
A global bioproducts manufacturer is implementing Tekai’s AI visual inspection to check product labels, with a setup designed to scale effectively to multiple lines and sites.
Implementation to production
Why Tekai
Tekai’s technology has its roots in AISA, the Nokia-led research project funded by Business Finland. We continue to develop it through research in AI, computer vision and related IT/HW technologies.
Our team brings experience from serving international manufacturing companies with advanced AI and SW technologies. We apply this domain and technology knowhow when implementing your solution.
Data science and industrial engineering come together in the implementation of your solution. We work with your team to translate process and quality requirements into inspection logic, validate it, and support production deployment.
FAQ
On a line running a similar process, Tekai can reuse the existing architecture and AI components. We add the cameras the task requires and verify image quality before extending inspection. Similar lines can be replicated in weeks. When moving to an adjacent process additional data collection, implementation, and validation is needed.
Not for similar products and variants. Within the implemented process, your administrators use the built-in tools in the AI visual inspection application to register and activate similar products and variants in minutes without retraining the model. A new product category needs only limited, targeted retraining with Tekai. A new process requires additional data and implementation with Tekai, followed by validation. Changes to inspection requirements may also need further implementation and validation.
Share the products you make, the checks you need, and the quality issues you want to address. We’ll begin with a discussion, then review the process during a factory visit or a longer online meeting. If Tekai is a fit, you’ll receive a written validation proposal covering scope, schedule, and pricing before committing to production deployment.
