Euro Industry: three X-ray machines programmed with us, running on 14 licenses of Firecrux X-Ray QC

The challenge

A machine maker that adds X-ray inspection to its line needs more than a detector: it needs software that tells a contaminant from the product, product after product, and acts on it.

Building our AI into the machines from the start lets the AI decision drive the work around it, instead of being bolted onto a scanner made by someone else.

What we built

• Three X-ray inspection machines programmed together, the ES 450, ES 600 and ES 800, with Firecrux X-Ray QC inside.
• A server application for the machines: a live control panel with switches, counters and reject statistics, a live view of the images served straight from each machine, an image browser with search and actions, and user permissions with an audit trail.
• The research that started it: Euro Industry rented us its X-ray lab, licensed by the National Atomic Energy Agency, for our work on AI contaminant detection.

How it works

• Every machine runs Firecrux X-Ray QC under its own license, with the detection models proven on the Milarex lines.
• The AI decision drives the reject, not only a stop of the line.
• Model updates and detection statistics for every machine come from one place.

Results

• 14 licenses of Firecrux X-Ray QC sold to Euro Industry for its machines.
• Three machine types, from the ES 450 to the ES 800, on the same software.

What comes next

A new prototype X-ray scanner, designed around our AI from day one, to automate far more of a factory’s work than finding contaminants.