Henry Ford once noted that “quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” As a pioneer of industrial processes that made the mass production of affordable automobiles possible, quality control is certainly something that he was well acquainted with. But what Ford may not have been able to envision is today’s modern manufacturing techniques that leave humans out of the loop at many stages of production. In such cases, many crucial components of a product are manufactured entirely by automated systems, so there is literally no one looking.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.edgeimpulse.com/blog/automated-manufacturing-inspection-with-fomo-ad