Product - Instrumental
The Manufacturing Acceleration Platform
Turn factory signals from every stage of production into a single engineering dataset.
Capture Signals From Every Source
Aggregate your functional test data and images from suppliers, final assembly, and returns.
Generate New Signals Where Needed
Originate images, videos, measurements, and visual tests using drop-in stations and AI.
TRACE
Trace Unit Data from Any Source
100% Traceability with real-time manufacturing data record
Link signals across sub-assembly, final assembly, and returns to create a complete, traceable view of how each unit was built.
Explore images and generate measurements.
Annotate and comment on interesting regions with markup tools, and generate instant distances using AI-powered measurements.
Search by serial numbers.
Efficiently sift through your data by using filters to search for specific serial numbers.
Explore the entire lifecycle of each unit
Dig deep into the supplier, assembly, and returns data of a specific serial number.
Discover, Solve, and Control Manufacturing Failures
Turn factory signals into engineering actions. Enable teams to discover new failure modes, identify root causes, and deploy production controls across factories.
PASS
FAIL
DISCOVER AI
Discover New Failure Modes
Surface unexpected variations and novel failures directly from factory signals — without predefined tests or large datasets. Avoid extra builds and tests. Find novel defects in real-time data using just 5 units and an anomaly-detecting AI.
OPERATE AI
Deploy Production Controls Across Your Factories
Turn known failure modes into synchronized inspection tests that intercept issues early and enforce manufacturing standards across lines and sites. Proactively improve quality and yield wit AI that runs 100s of visual inspections and works in high-mix scenarios.
SOLVE AI
Accelerate Failure Analysis
Correlate visual signals, test results, and process parameters to isolate root causes and eliminate entire classes of failures. Save 90% of the time spent on each failure analysis.
Built for Real Manufacturing Complexity
Handle Bot Low and High-Mix, Rapidly Changing Builds
40% of Instrumental programs are high mix and it can manage 100s of SKUs and different variations.
From NPI to High-Volume Production
Capture and learn from factory signals whether you’re building tens of units or scaling to millions — without changing systems.
Deploy Across Your Infrastructure
Run Instrumental in a managed cloud or within your own environment while maintaining a unified engineering dataset across factories.
Hardware Agnostic
Ingest images and data from existing equipment like AOI and X-ray, or deploy our drop-in stations to generate new factory signals.
Act on Factory Signals in Real Time
Surface failures and variations as they occur. Quickly identify issues and take action on the line.
Built for Engineers, Not Data Teams
Create and deploy discovery and inspection workflows without custom code — keeping engineering teams in control.
Instrumental turns factory signals into engineering intelligence — helping teams discover failures, identify root causes, and control and accelerate production.
AOI
Captures images only.
Requires 3 to 6 months of extensive training of AI models to identify known defects
Requires a specialist or professional service to install machines and set up tests
Must be programmed on-site.
Cannot tell the root cause
Each station is isolated and disconnected
INSTRUMENTAL
Aggregates tests, images and videos into a single platform.
Intercepts known defects with few examples and discovers unknown defects on day 1 with 5 units
Works directly with brands and factories to set up and engineers can set up their own tests remotely.
Access, program, update, and administrate remotely
Finds root cause with AI-powered correlations and data record
Helps to remotely manage all your global factories and easily compare between lines and factories
Instrumental integrates with MES and factory systems to capture and unify signals across your manufacturing process — with flexible deployment in managed or self-hosted environments.
Integrates with Existing MES
Capture factory signals from MES, test systems, and inspection equipment — and feed production decisions back into the line to enforce correct unit routing and manufacturing controls.
Deploy Quickly in Your Factory
Instrumental works with your team to design signal capture across your line — including station placement, system integration, and bringing signals into a unified engineering dataset.
Secure, Reliable Cloud Platfom
Instrumental operates with enterprise-grade security and access controls, ensuring factory signals and engineering workflows are protected across teams, lines, and facilities.
Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of products can I use Instrumental on?
Instrumental is best for products with medium to high complexity, high-performance requirements, or zero defect requirements. Instrumental customers make as few as ten units/month up to 1M / day. Our technology supports both low- and high-mix environments.
When should I install Instrumental?
The platform’s value persists throughout the entire product lifecycle, even after initial objectives have been accomplished, making it a reliable and long-term business partner. It is sought after in three critical scenarios by its customers:
- Accelerate NPI Programs
- Improve quality and Yield in Production
- Data and AI Transformation
- Refurbishment/Returns/Remanufacturing
Can I upload only data or only images?
While uploading both images and data maximizes value, we recognize unique situations. Instrumental accommodates uploading solely data or images based on your specific needs, ensuring valuable insights in either scenario.
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How to Upload Data?
- There are three ways to upload your data to our cloud app.
- Import serialized data in CSV format by simply dragging and dropping it into the application.
- Push the data from test stations to our cloud via API
- Place your data in a secure server for Instrumental to parse and push the data to the cloud