Solving the “needle in the haystack” problem.

The pickling line is the last step before steel is sold to the market, therefore at each of the five round-the-clock shifts a human inspector continuously monitors the strip after pickling. Surface defects are flagged and determined according to the type of defect, resulting in inefficient, manual, work in a hazardous environment.

“BrainCreators were always open and transparent about intelligent automation, only promising what they could achieve without the usual hype stories about AI”

Johan Bernard, Manager Process Engineering, Tata Steel

Our Approach

BrainMatter contains an intelligent perceive module powered by active learning. This greatly reduces the burden of creating examples to learn from, only selecting the most informative defects for the classifier. This effectively solved the so called “needle in the haystack” problem that inspectors were previously faced with.