KOMPASS AI inspects every weld and joint as it is made, bead, seam, spot, rivet and solder, through the cameras you already have — no sampled joints, no teardown to find out, no bad weld discovered at final test, just joints checked and recorded as the line runs.
Weld quality gets checked on a fraction of joints, and confirmed by destroying parts. Everything in between is inference. When a joint fails in the field, the batch it came from was signed off on somebody else's weld.
Our Cognitive Product Inspection system, KOMPASS™, paired with modular vision hardware, inspects each weld and joint as it is made, flags the defects that show on the surface, and keeps an image of every joint it passed.
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Learn More - Talk to our expertJoint inspection runs on the cameras you already have in your welding cells. No pilot line, no new hardware to install. We have mapped this deployment before, which is what makes it fast now.
We walk your cells, confirm camera and lighting coverage around the torch, gun or head, and scope the joints and defects to inspect.
The model trains on your own joints and your own defect set, with 20 samples per defect, not a generic weld library.
Inspection runs in shadow mode beside your current sampling and teardown results, then goes live on your reject gate once it agrees with them. Deployment takes 6–8 weeks.
Bring your highest-volume joint and the defect that gets through. We will scope a pilot on your line.
Comparison
Coverage
The joints someone can reach and see
A sampling plan, a few joints a shift
100% of joints inspected inline
What it costs to find out
Little, and it finds little
The part, destroyed to answer the question
Nothing, the joint is inspected as it is made
When you know
At the station, if it is obvious
Hours later, once the lab reports
At the station, in the moment
What it sees
Whatever the light happens to show
Below the surface, on the joints it samples
Surface condition, on every joint
Hardware
Mirrors, torches and judgement
A test lab and a saw
Runs on the cameras already in the cell
Traceability
A signature on a weld log
A report for each sampled joint
An image of every joint, tied to the part
First-Time-Right
Hope
Confirmed after the fact
Right the first time, every shift
Everything the surface shows: bead width and continuity, porosity breaking the surface, spatter, undercut, burn-through, and welds that are missing, offset or misaligned. It inspects every joint as it is made, which is the difference from a sampling plan that checks a handful of welds a shift.
No. Ultrasonic, radiographic and destructive tests answer questions about the inside of a joint, and they stay. KOMPASS covers what those cannot: every joint, inline, on surface-visible attributes. Used together, sampling can go back to doing what only sampling does rather than standing in for full coverage.
It checks spot welds for presence, position and surface condition: missed welds, off-position welds, and surface indications on the visible side. It does not measure nugget diameter, which sits below the surface and needs ultrasonic or destructive testing. Between them you get full coverage plus a sampled subsurface check.
Yes, and that is where the coverage gap is widest, because a robot cell produces joints faster than anyone can check them. Cameras mounted in the cell inspect each joint as it is completed, and defect trends are grouped by robot, gun and station so a drifting torch shows up as a pattern.
It inspects solder joints optically, on every board rather than a sample. X-ray remains the answer for hidden joints such as BGAs, where the connection sits under the package. Optical inspection covers the visible joints continuously; X-ray covers what optics physically cannot see.
KOMPASS runs on the cameras already in your welding cells. It connects to PLCs, robots and conveyors, actuates reject gates and Andon alerts within the dwell time, feeds MES and ERP for traceability, and runs at the edge with your data staying on-site.
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