Skillreal Is Revolutionizing Dimensional and Quality Inspection With Nvidia AI

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Fast deployment and ROI

>99.7% Reliability

Sub-mm Accuracy

By fusing pre-trained large AI models with sub-millimeter dimensional measurement powered by the NVIDIA AI platform, SkillReal enables the automotive industry to enhance quality and generate positive ROI from day one.

The visual inspection process in manufacturing has traditionally been manual, subjective, and limited in scale. In the era of precision manufacturing, particularly in industries like automotive, any deviation from specifications can impact not only product performance but also brand trust and operational efficiency. The automotive industry is losing many billions of dollars each year due to reworks, spills, downtime and recalls.

To address this, some manufacturers have adopted automated dimensional inspection solutions such as robotic inspection cells and scanners. While accurate, these systems are expensive, inflexible, and complex to deploy and maintain, often requiring dedicated floor space, custom programming, and calibration routines for each part type.

The trend to bring manufacturing back to the US will require new technologies and methods to enhance efficiency and capacity while reducing costs.

SkillReal, a next-generation sub-mm AI dimensional inspection platform, has already been deployed by leading global OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers in Japan and the US in collaboration with local solution providers and global partners like Siemens. SkillReal uses NVIDIA accelerated computing, NVIDIA Metropolis stack, Tensor RT(™) acceleration, and CUDA(™) for the optimization and and runtime of large vision models with ultra-precise dimensional analysis to bring true automation and intelligence to visual inspection in Body-in-White (BIW) and assembly lines, without the rigidity and cost of traditional inspection cells.

SkillReal new technology runs on NVIDIA GPUs with TensorRT acceleration, delivering up to 0.07mm precision for reliable CAD-based inspection of hundreds of manufacturing features within the cycle time.

AI IN MANUFACTURING

Transforming quality control with dimensional AI inspection

Automotive manufacturing demands speed, scale, and sub-mm-level accuracy. SkillReal leverages NVIDIA AI technologies, including NVIDIA accelerated computing, to analyze multi-camera visual data in real time and generate integrated sub-mm dimensional and quality inspection of hundreds of manufacturing features within the cycle time with >99.7% confidence.

By combining large pre-trained models with 3D geometry understanding, SkillReal enables automatic detection of assembly misalignments, quality issues, and missing features without the need for part-specific AI training.

THE TECHNOLOGY

SkillReal technology runs on NVIDIA GPUs with TensorRT acceleration, delivering sub-millimeter precision for reliable inspection of hundreds of manufacturing features within the cycle time.

SkillReal’s open platform combines patented computer vision, continuous camera calibration, and accelerated, pre-trained large AI models. It is engineered to accurately and reliably inspect hundreds of manufacturing features within the cycle time, while maintaining exceptional resilience to changing environmental and lighting conditions. SkillReal platform includes several key technologies:

New camera calibration technology – sub-pixel accuracy with standard cameras, leveraging NVIDIA GPUs to generate undistorted images in real time.
Real-time sub mm Part tracking with CAD alignment – AI detections and 3D calculations are used to eliminate the need for dedicated Jigs or space.
Patented accelerated Pre-trained large AI models accelerated for inference with NVIDIA Tensor RT – ready from day 1 with no need for part-specific AI training.
Accurate Dimensional measurements and Quality inspection – all in one solution
Pre-trained, high-performance Large AI models – Trained on over 35,000 real-world manufacturing variations and enriched with millions of augmentations, SkillReal’s hybrid dimensional engine ensures they are always grounded in geometric truth. To meet strict cycle time requirements, SkillReal collaborated with NVIDIA to accelerate inference using TensorRT and GPU-level code optimization.

Our base large pre-trained AI models are trained in the cloud using NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs with over 30,000 real images and millions of augmentations, and optimized versions are deployed at the edge for real-time inference that, together with the skillreal patented 3D AI technology, deliver above 99.7% accuracy for most features. In most deployments, inference runs on high-performance edge workstations equipped with NVIDIA RTX GPUs, ensuring minimal latency and full operation within production cycle times.

SkillReal supports standard off-the-shelf industrial cameras, which are pre-calibrated using SkillReal’s proprietary sub-pixel accuracy calibration technology to ensure precise, reliable measurements.

THE WAY FORWARD

As SkillReal scales across production lines globally, the result is a dramatic reduction in deployment efforts and costs.

This includes inspection within the cycle time, increased measurement coverage, and the elimination of human error. This technology is not just enhancing quality; it’s reshaping what’s possible on the factory floor.

Leveraging the NVIDIA platform, SkillReal is setting a new standard for inline inspection—combining the flexibility of AI with the precision of metrology, without the constraints of traditional inspection cells.

As SkillReal captures vast volumes of high-resolution, dimensionally accurate data from the production floors, this rich dataset becomes a powerful resource for advanced analytics. It enables comparative quality analysis across shifts, production lines, and global plants, while also identifying trends that support predictive maintenance and root-cause analysis for closed-loop process improvement

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