ChinaManufacturing2026 – ongoingTongwei
YOLO inspection of junction-box welding-head slag at Nantong
Tongwei expected its Nantong YOLO inspection system to avoid approximately RMB 1 million in equipment-development costs
Problem
The Nantong quality department needed to identify and assess welding slag on junction-box welding heads. Developing dedicated inspection equipment would have incurred additional expense.
Approach
The department developed an AI visual-inspection platform using YOLO. The platform automatically identified and assessed welding slag. Tongwei recognized the project in its second-quarter internal AI project review.
Results
Takeaway
A quality department built the inspection platform internally. The equipment-development saving remained an estimate.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Computer vision
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
Tongwei described the Nantong quality department's internally developed YOLO inspection platform. It reported automatic welding-slag identification and assessment, with expected equipment-development savings of approximately RMB 1 million.
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