AI AOI
FOR SMT LINES
Sub-200 ms PCB inspection on every board. Detect solder defects, missing components and tombstoning with 60% fewer false positives than rule-based AOI.
USE CASES
Real applications that transform your production process
Post-paste inspection (SPI)
Verify solder paste deposit volume, alignment and shape on every pad before placement. Catch paste defects before they propagate.
Post-placement (pre-reflow)
Confirm every component is on the board, oriented correctly and matching the BOM. Wrong polarity, missing parts and offsets detected in real time.
Post-reflow joint inspection
Solder joint analysis for missing, insufficient, bridged, tombstoned and cold joints. AI handles borderline joints that rule-based AOI mis-categorizes.
Real-time line dashboard
Unified view across SPI, pre-reflow and post-reflow stations. Defect rate per board, per station, per shift, with image evidence on every detection.
Adaptive model retraining
Onboarding a new PCB takes hours of labeling, not days of rule writing. Models retrain from operator confirmations and improve over time.
MES and traceability integration
Every board image, decision and serial number flows to your MES. Full traceability for IATF 16949, AS9100 and medical device audits.
KEY BENEFITS
What Condor Vision can do for your operation
60-80% fewer false positives
AI learns the real defect boundary from your line, eliminating the false-reject burden of rule-based AOI.
Sub-200 ms decisions
Edge inference on industrial accelerators keeps inspection latency well below SMT cycle time on the densest boards.
Hours to onboard a new board
Replace days of rule writing with a half day of supervised labeling. New PCBs go live in under 48 hours.
Catches the borderline joints
Partial voids, micro-bridges and off-axis drift, the defects rule-based AOI marks as suspicious and humans wrongly approve.
INTEGRATION WITH YOUR EQUIPMENT
Not just AI inspection: capture signals from your existing machines and unify everything in one system
Machine Signals
Connect to your existing equipment and capture digital/analog signals without AI
PLC Integration
Direct communication with Siemens, Allen-Bradley, Mitsubishi and other industrial PLCs
Sensors and I/O
Incorporate temperature, pressure, speed and more sensor data into your dashboard
Unified Dashboard
View machine signals + AI visual inspection in one place
AI + Machine Signals = Total Visibility
Combine the power of artificial intelligence with data from your existing PLCs and sensors. One dashboard, one source of truth for your entire operation.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
- Your AOI generates so many false positives that operators rubber-stamp results.
- Engineers spend half their time tuning thresholds instead of improving the line.
- Subtle defects (partial voids, micro-bridges) reach customers and trigger field returns.
- Onboarding a new PCB takes days of inspection rule writing.
- There's no unified visibility across SPI, pre-reflow and post-reflow stations.
THE SOLUTION
With Condor Vision, these problems are solved automatically:
- 24/7 monitoring without human intervention
- Instant problem detection
- Real-time alerts
- Automatic data and metrics
Frequently asked questions
Traditional AOI uses fixed rules and CAD comparisons and generates many false positives. AI AOI learns real defects from your production data, reducing false rejects by 60-80%.
MODERNIZE YOUR SMT INSPECTION WITH AI
Book a tailored assessment for your SMT line. We'll show side-by-side how AI AOI performs on your boards versus your current system.