AI Vision for New Product Introductions
Edge-native AI inspection that eliminates the “success tax,” keeps your IP on the factory floor, and trains with as few as 10 images, purpose-built for the speed and security NPI demands.
What It Is
New Product Introductions (NPIs) are the highest-stakes phase of manufacturing where speed, IP security, and experimental flexibility determine whether you hit your launch window or fall behind. Overview.ai's edge-native architecture provides a significant unfair advantage over SaaS-based competitors for NPI inspection, giving your quality team the tools to iterate at the speed of your engineering team.
Why Edge AI Wins for NPI
1. Rapid Iteration vs. The “Success Tax”
During an NPI, you are constantly refining your assembly process. This leads to high volumes of “experimental” image data as you define what a defect actually is.
One-time hardware cost with no SaaS fees. Run as many inspections and save as many images as the 256GB NVMe SSD allows without incurring extra costs.
Platforms like Instrumental charge based on data usage or inspection count. The more you test and iterate, the more you pay, a “success tax” on your NPI.
2. 100% Data Sovereignty for Proprietary Designs
NPI prototypes are the “crown jewels” of your company's IP. Every image of an unreleased product represents a potential competitive risk.
All processing and data storage happen locally on the camera's integrated NVIDIA GPU. No images of your unreleased product ever leave the factory floor.
Sending prototype images to the cloud introduces persistent security risk and often requires complex IT approvals that can delay your NPI timeline by weeks.
3. The “Low-Data” Training Speed
NPIs are characterized by a lack of “bad parts.” You cannot wait to collect 10,000 defects to train a model, you need to be inspecting now.
Achieve 100% accuracy with as few as 10 training images. Go from unboxing a camera to a fully trained segmentation algorithm in less than 3 hours.
Cloud platforms typically require thousands of labeled images before training can begin, an impossibility during early NPI when you have minimal production data.
How Overview Solves It
First Article Inspection in hours: Train classification and segmentation models through a browser-based interface, no coding, no data science team required.
Iterate without penalty: Retrain, adjust thresholds, and redefine defect criteria as your process evolves, no per-inspection fees, no data upload costs.
Scale from NPI to high-volume: The same camera and trained model transition seamlessly from prototype inspection to full production, no re-deployment needed.
Frequently Asked Questions
How quickly can I deploy during an NPI?
You can go from unboxing the camera to a fully trained, production-ready inspection in under 3 hours. No IT provisioning, no cloud setup, no vendor access approvals needed.
What if I only have a few sample parts?
Overview achieves production-grade accuracy with as few as 10 training images. This is critical for NPI where you may only have a handful of prototype parts available.
Will my prototype images stay secure?
Yes, 100%. All processing happens on the camera's local NVIDIA GPU. No images are ever transmitted to any cloud, server, or external endpoint. Your IP never leaves the factory floor.
Are there ongoing SaaS fees?
No. Overview is a one-time hardware purchase. You can run unlimited inspections, retrain models as often as needed, and store images on the onboard 256GB NVMe SSD, all included.
Can the same camera scale from NPI to full production?
Absolutely. The trained model runs on the same hardware. As your NPI transitions to high-volume production, the camera and algorithms transition with it, no re-deployment, no re-integration.
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