Technology and IIoT

How Ford Uses AI for Quality Control

Oct. 15, 2024

The automaker's advanced manufacturing director discusses vision systems and other AI technologies used by Ford engineers to boost quality.

Robert Schoenberger

Despite its recent buzz, artificial intelligence has been a force in manufacturing for decades, especially in quality control where vision systems tied to pattern-matching algorithms regularly separate the good parts from the bad.

At Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing Technology Development Director Jason Ryska said he's been using vision systems since 1995, but that modern tools are rapidly giving manufacturers new tools and new ways of combining various data sources to better direct operations.

In this presentation, given at the IndustryWeek Operations Leadership Summit in Indianapolis in June, Ryska spells out how Ford has used AI systems for years and what capabilities those technologies are providing the global automaker these days.

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Robert Schoenberger

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Bio: Robert Schoenberger has been writing about manufacturing technology in one form or another since the late 1990s. He began his career in newspapers in South Texas and has worked for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi; The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky; and The Plain Dealer in Cleveland where he spent more than six years as the automotive reporter. In 2014, he launched Today's Motor Vehicles (now EV Manufacturing & Design), a magazine focusing on design and manufacturing topics within the automotive and commercial truck worlds. He joined IndustryWeek in late 2021.