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. Industrial AI automatically finds and ranks every defect, speeds up failure analysis, and keeps your builds on track.
Every NPI program’s success depends on how effectively engineers execute the core loop: discover new issues, design and validate a solution, establish a way to monitor for recurrence. Instrumental is the first platform designed to support this end-to-end workflow to deliver continuous design and process optimization from first prototype to mass production.
You’ll feel like you’ve increased your engineering efficiency by 300%.
Discover
Happens too late
Depends on people
Functional tests miss unknowns
Solve
Hours of phone calls across geos
Waiting on returned parts
Incomplete data record
Monitor
AOI/MV only finds known failures
Data is on-prem only
Brittle to changes
How it works
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Choose your key data sources
Image Streams
From our camera, your AOI, X-ray, microscope, and others.
Data Streams
Functional tests, measurements, or other inputs via API.
Most insights
Both
Multiple data sets across on-the-line visuals and parametric tests.
Image Streams + Data Streams
Image Streams
Data Streams
Image Streams + Data Streams
Most insights
Supplier data
Front plate OUTSIDE
Machine Parameters
FRONT plate INSIDE
FRONT PLATE PCB
Measurements
FRONT PRE-SNAP
Functional tests
FINISHED GOOD
other IMAGE sources
Return CENTER FUNCTIONAL TESTS
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Upload your data in a few simple steps
Get data from your line in as little as one week. Get started in just a few hours with our self-service API or connect with an Instrumental integration expert to deploy our stations on your line ASAP.
Supplier data
Front plate OUTSIDE
Machine Parameters
FRONT plate INSIDE
FRONT PLACE PCB
Measurements
FRONT PRE-SNAP
Functional tests
FINISHED GOOD
other IMAGE sources
Return CENTER FUNCTIONAL TESTS
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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
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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 started solving your hardest problems with just your test data.
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Why are these units failing this bluetooth test?
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It looks like this assembly issue is correlated to these test failures.
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Instrumental’s AI will rank potential root causes, saving countless hours of tedious failure analysis
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Why are these units failing this bluetooth test?
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It looks like Firmware Version is correlated to these test failures!
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Instrumental’s AI will rank potential root causes, saving countless hours of tedious failure analysis
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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
IMAGE STREAMS
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MONITOR
Prevent old issues from reoccurring
Once you've understood the root cause, you can take corrective actions to eliminate these issues. Create dozens of tests in minutes by training the AI to understand the difference between passing and failing to enable factory workers to solve issues on the line.
You can monitor the results of these tests in the cloud, or push them live to the line so that defects can be intercepted in real time with direct feedback to the line operators. Export reports automatically to share with broader teams and to facilitate daily standups.
Easily identify your top issues so your team can prioritize actions to continuously improve
Instrumental can flag units that match a failure mode, and also deploy a new on-station intercept within minutes
Supplier data
Front plate OUTSIDE
Machine Parameters
FRONT plate INSIDE
FRONT PLATE PCB
Measurements
FRONT PRE-SNAP
Functional tests
FINISHED GOOD
other IMAGE sources
Return CENTER FUNCTIONAL TESTS
Supplier data
Front plate OUTSIDE
Machine Parameters
FRONT plate INSIDE
FRONT PLACE PCB
Measurements
FRONT PRE-SNAP
Functional tests
FINISHED GOOD
other IMAGE sources
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
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
IMAGE STREAMS
Easily identify your top issues so your team can prioritize actions to continuously improve
Instrumental can flag units that match a failure mode, and also deploy a new on-station intercept within minutes
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
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
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
