'Recent advances in deep learning have transformed what is possible in manufacturing vision: models can now detect subtle defects, measure complex geometries, and adapt to new products with far less labeled data than before. Yet moving from impressive demos to plant-wide deployment exposes a different set of challenges and trade-offs. This talk will survey the state of the art in AI-powered inspection for electronics, automotive, and industrial manufacturing, with a focus on what actually works at scale on production lines. We’ll look at practical choices between cloud and edge inference, classical vision and deep learning, general-purpose and application-specific models, and high-accuracy versus highly maintainable systems. I’ll share lessons learned from real deployments on issues like data drift, operator trust, cycle-time constraints, and integrating AI vision into existing PLC and MES environments. Attendees will leave with a clear mental framework for evaluating AI vision solutions, understanding the technical trade-offs behind “deployability,” and identifying where these recent advances can deliver the most value in their own factories.
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Russell Nibbelink
Co-founder and Head of Sales Engineering
Overview.ai (United States)
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Russell Nibbelink is a co-founder of Overview.ai, where he has spent nearly seven years building and deploying AI-powered vision systems for industrial manufacturing. His teams deliver full-stack optical inspection—spanning imaging, illumination, edge inference, and factory integrations—to help customers catch defects, reduce scrap, and scale quality across automotive, electronics, and other complex production environments. Before Overview, Russell was a software engineer at Salesforce, working on web-scale infrastructure and zero-downtime migrations for the company’s largest customers. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley, where he also served as Head Teaching Assistant for High-Performance Computing.
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Event Details
FORMAT: Oral presentation followed by audience Q&A.
MENU: Coffee, decaf, tea and water will be available nearby.
SETUP: Theater seating.
