Hit your development and manufacturing targets with Instrumental

Instrumental unifies your product data to deliver the information you need, when and where you need it, so you can find and fix problems fast.

 

How it works

1

Choose your key data sources

Image Streams

From our camera, your AOI, X-ray, microscope, and others

Video Streams

On-the-line video from your existing hardware or an Instrumental station.

Data Streams

Functional tests, measurements,
or other inputs via API

Most insights
Combined

Multiple data sets across on-the-line visuals and parametric tests

Supplier data

Front plate OUTSIDE

FRONT plate INSIDE

FRONT PLATE PCB

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Measurements

FRONT PRE-SNAP

Screw Assembly

Functional tests

FINISHED GOOD

other IMAGE sources

Any unique process

Return CENTER FUNCTIONAL TESTS

2

Upload your data in a few simple steps

Connect with an Instrumental integration expert to deploy our stations on your line in as little as a week, or get started in just a few hours with our self-service API.

Supplier data

Front plate OUTSIDE

FRONT plate INSIDE

FRONT PLACE PCB

ZIF latch insertion

Measurements

FRONT PRE-SNAP

Screw Assembly

Functional tests

FINISHED GOOD

other IMAGE sources

Any unique process

Return CENTER FUNCTIONAL TESTS

3

discover

Use AI to find known and unknown issues

Our AI works with just 30 units and station setup can be completed in just 30 minutes. Quickly identify anomalies in your images or your datasets so that you can solve issues earlier in your builds before they become bigger problems.

Example images below are not from customer programs

4

SOLVE

Fix issues faster and earlier in your build

If you have functional failures, our AI will crunch through the data, connect the visual data to the test data and suggest potential root causes by looking for areas where your visual anomalies correlate to your test failure. You can also start solving your hardest problems with just your test data.

1

Why are these units failing this bluetooth test?

2

It looks like this assembly issue is correlated to these test failures.

3

Instrumental’s AI will rank potential root causes, saving countless hours of tedious failure analysis

1

Why are these units failing this bluetooth test?

2

It looks like Firmware Version is correlated to these test failures!

3

Instrumental’s AI will rank potential root causes, saving countless hours of tedious failure analysis

1

Have the ability to watch the assembly of any failed unit .

2

Ensure your operators are consistently following the right procedures to prevent future failures.

1

Get a complete data record of each unit for failure analysis, with high-resolution images, test results, and measurement tools to avoid manual teardowns or drawn out communication with your factory.

DATA + IMAGES
DATA STREAMS
VIDEO STREAMS
IMAGE STREAMS

5

MONITOR

Continuously improve with confidence

Proactive monitoring ensures issues are caught earlier and don’t lead to missed production targets. With Image Streams, create dozens of tests in minutes by training our AI to understand the difference between passing and failing to solve issues on the line. With Data Streams, view control charts, Cpk, and receive Statistical Process Control (SPC) alerts if tests start to drift.

Users can opt to receive personalized alerts for visual anomalies and test data with a few clicks. When issues do occur, quickly find the root cause by diving into our correlations feature.

Supplier data

Front plate OUTSIDE

FRONT plate INSIDE

FRONT PLATE PCB

ZIF latch insertion

Measurements

FRONT PRE-SNAP

Screw Assembly

Functional tests

FINISHED GOOD

other IMAGE sources

Any unique process

Return CENTER FUNCTIONAL TESTS

Supplier data

Front plate OUTSIDE

FRONT plate INSIDE

FRONT PLACE PCB

ZIF latch insertion

Measurements

FRONT PRE-SNAP

Screw Assembly

Functional tests

FINISHED GOOD

other IMAGE sources

Any unique process

Return CENTER FUNCTIONAL TESTS

Example images below are not from customer programs

1

Why are these units failing this bluetooth test?

2

It looks like this assembly issue is correlated to these test failures.

3

Instrumental’s AI will rank potential root causes, saving countless hours of tedious failure analysis

1

Why are these units failing this bluetooth test?

2

It looks like Firmware Version is correlated to these test failures!

3

Instrumental’s AI will rank potential root causes, saving countless hours of tedious failure analysis

1

Have the ability to watch the assembly of any failed unit .

2

Ensure your operators are consistently following the right procedures to prevent future failures.

1

Get a complete data record of each unit for failure analysis, with high-resolution images, test results, and measurement tools to avoid manual teardowns or drawn out communication with your factory.

DATA + IMAGES
DATA STREAMS
VIDEO STREAMS
IMAGE STREAMS

Instrumental for New Product Introduction

Instrumental delivers AI-powered proactive defect discovery, end-to-end failure analysis tools, and remote real-time build monitoring, all in a single simple cloud platform.

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Instrumental for Mass Production

Instrumental empowers operations teams to proactively monitor, maintain and continuously improve throughout the supply chain to ensure your quality goals and yield targets are met.

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Instrumental Customer Story

Fortune 50 Electronics Company Automatically Discovered 3 Root Causes for Antenna Issues

Immediately see results from feed screw length DOE

Discover that antenna connector angle really matters

Pinpoint poor performance to a specific vendor (found due to color difference)

process results
  • Data Correlations identified feed screw length root cause, leading to a design change
  • Image Correlations identified coax connector angle and PCB vendor, leading to a process change & a vendor investigation
Instrumental Customer Story

Fortune 50 Electronics Company correlated functional failures to visual anomalies, eliminating 5 months of failure analysis

Prior to Instrumental we would need to rely on a series of serendipitous events to get the data we needed to take action; now we know these defects actually impact function.”

ROBERT

Director Process Engineering

MEMS transducer

  • Identified 39 defect modes with failure rate distribution
  • Enabled engineers to understand necessary quality limits
*Customer data is dramatized

Imaging partner:

Instrumental Customer Story

Fortune 50 Electronics Company Automatically Discovered 3 Root Causes for Antenna Issues

Immediately see results from feed screw length DOE

Discover that antenna connector angle really matters

Pinpoint poor performance to a specific vendor (found due to color difference)

process results
  • Data Correlations identified feed screw length root cause, leading to a design change
  • Image Correlations identified coax connector angle and PCB vendor, leading to a process change & a vendor investigation
Instrumental Customer Story

Fortune 50 Electronics Company correlated functional failures to visual anomalies, eliminating 5 months of failure analysis

MEMS transducer

Prior to Instrumental we would need to rely on a series of serendipitous events to get the data we needed to take action; now we know these defects actually impact function.”

ROBERT

Director Process Engineering

  • Identified 39 defect modes with failure rate distribution
  • Enabled engineers to understand necessary quality limits
*Customer data is dramatized

Imaging partner:

Flexible solutions, simple implementation

Designed for discrete manufacturing at any scale

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AI-POWERED MEASUREMENTS

Accelerate failure analysis and automate quality control on every unit on your line and retroactively on already built units

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FUNCTIONAL TESTS & MEASUREMENTS

Integrate with existing parametric tests, measurement systems, and custom data sources from your line

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ACTUALLY DEPLOY IN 30 MINUTES

Our team does all the work internally so that your existing factory staff can set up our system in only 30 minutes

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NO CODING REQUIRED

No need for a data scientist or expensive custom programming

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USE ANY CAMERA OR CHOOSE DATA ONLY

Capture images with our drop-in cameras or your existing ones

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MES INTEGRATION

Fully integrate with your existing MES for deeper control

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Programs that used Instrumental during development ramped faster than products that did not use it.”

LYON WANG

Director of Engineering and NPI, Motorola

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Instrumental Emergency Services

Finding and detecting issues for teams at leading companies globally

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