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How a German Mid-Sized Factory Automated Quality Control
Lucas and Luna zoom in on a single mid-sized German manufacturer — a 400-person automotive supplier in Baden-Württemberg — that replaced manual visual inspection with computer vision on the assembly line. They walk through the specific tech stack (off-the-shelf cameras, open-source machine learning model, no cloud dependency), the 18-month rollout timeline, the cost per station (roughly €12,000), and the surprising result: defect detection went from 82 percent to 99.3 percent, but the factory actually hired more people instead of fewer. The episode raises a bigger question about automation…
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