UnitX (Milpitas, California) launched DeteX, the world’s fastest-to-deploy AI-powered smart camera, according to the company. DeteX is designed for speed and simplicity and an intuitive 5-step guided interface allows operators to go live in 1 minute.
UnitX currently inspects more than $15 billion in products annually across more than 190 global manufacturing facilities. DeteX is purpose-built to eliminate the manufacturing vision gap, reduce scrap and stop defect escapes.
The DeteX Smart Camera is purpose-built to address the demanding, high-tolerance requirements of several critical manufacturing verticals. For example:
- Automotive manufacturing: The camera ensures 100% in-line inspection with zero tolerance for false rejections.
- Medical device assembly: It can provide 0.1 mm dimensional accuracy needed to meet strict regulatory and quality standard.
- Food and beverage packaging and industrial assembly: Its AI OCR, counting and barcode tools streamline high-speed operations.
- Electronics and PCB assembly: It excels at detecting subtle, low-contrast defects such as partially seated connectors and micro-surface anomalies.
Additional features include:
- Pixel-Precise AI Segmentation: DeteX's core technology moat. While basic sensors only handle simple presence/absence checks, DeteX features proprietary pixel-precise AI segmentation. It detects complex defects, such as partially seated connectors, micro-cracks, irregular contours, subtle surface anomalies that standard 1.6MP presence/absence sensors cannot resolve.
- Dimensional Measurement: Achieves 0.1 mm accuracy on diameter, edge, line and pitch measurements, ensuring dimensional escapes are stopped before they leave the facility.
- AI Multi-Class Classification: Goes beyond binary pass/fail to classify multiple defect types giving quality teams the granular data they need to address root causes.
- AI OCR/QR Code Reading: Handles real world variability and reads engraved, low-contrast, deformed, curved and dirty characters and code at line speed without manual configuration, eliminating traceability escapes from misread date codes, lot numbers and serial marks.
- AI Counting: Counts up to 999 targets per inspection cycle within user-defined regions of interest, catching missing components before they become field failures.
UnitX will showcase DeteX live at Automate 2026. To schedule a live demonstration, contact Peter Szum at [email protected].
For more information, visit https://www.unitxlabs.com/.
UnitX currently inspects more than $15 billion in products annually across more than 190 global manufacturing facilities.UnitX
