Industries: automotive

Built for the pace of automotive production.

Automotive manufacturing runs on precision, speed, and zero tolerance for defects. A single quality escape can trigger a recall.
IATF 16949APQPPPAP
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A smiling assembly technician wearing Visor glasses at a torque station on a vehicle line
Torque specifications and assembly sequences delivered at the station.Assembly

The cost of the gap

Minutes down, millions out.

What the gap between the procedure and the line actually costs automotive producers.

$2.3M/hr

Unplanned downtime

Average cost of one hour of unplanned downtime at a large automotive plant.

Source: Siemens, The True Cost of Downtime 2024

$51B/yr

Paid in warranty claims

What global automakers paid out in warranty claims in 2023, with another $139.5B held in reserves.

Source: Warranty Week, 2024

34.9Mvehicles

Recalled in one year

894 US safety recalls affected 34.9 million vehicles in 2023, the third straight annual rise.

Source: NHTSA, 2023 Annual Recall Report

20%

Of sales lost to poor quality

Scrap, rework, and failure costs consume up to a fifth of sales revenue at many manufacturers.

Source: ASQ estimate

The work

The line does not wait for paperwork.

A missed torque specification can mean warranty claims that cost more than the vehicle. A defect that passes one station becomes rework at the next, or a customer complaint six months later. Visor is built for the complexity of automotive production, from body-in-white to final trim, from Tier 1 stamping to OEM assembly.

Changeovers happen faster than documentation can keep up. New operators arrive mid-ramp and learn from whoever is nearest. Visor puts the current procedure in front of the person doing the work, confirms each step by watching it happen rather than waiting for someone to tick it off, and writes the record as the part moves.

When a station does stop, the loss is counted in minutes. Visor Assist limits that downtime by answering at the panel: the fault, the schematic, the resolution that worked the last time this machine did this. The operator troubleshoots in place instead of paging the one person who knows the equipment, and the line restarts before the stoppage compounds into missed takt and overtime.

So when an auditor asks who performed an operation, on which part, against which revision, the answer is already recorded.

Compliance

Audit readiness, generated at the point of work.

Visor supports IATF 16949 compliance, APQP documentation, control plan adherence, and PPAP audit readiness, with automated records generated as each operation is completed.

How Visor helps

The modules that carry this work.

Visor is modular. These are the parts that matter most in automotive, deployed on the devices your team already uses.

01

Visor Inspect

Defects stop at the station.
Inline visual AI catches dimensional and cosmetic defects before they reach the next station, so rework never compounds down the line.

02

Visor Capture

Torque specs, always current.
Assembly sequences, torque specifications, and changeover procedures reach the right operator at the right station, version-locked and never out of date.

03

Visor Guide

New operators up to takt.
An operator new to the station is walked through the sequence, with each step confirmed by what Visor sees, so cross-training happens on the line instead of beside it.

04

Visor Assist

Stoppages answered at the station.
When a station goes down, the operator asks in plain language and gets the fix (the right manual page, the schematic, what resolved it last time) instead of waiting for the one technician who knows that machine.

05

Visor Document

Traceability without typing.
Work records and QC sign-offs generate themselves, with full traceability for every part that moves through the line.

06

Visor Insights

Root causes, not symptoms.
Cycle time variances, recurring fault codes, and downtime patterns surface early, so your team fixes causes instead of managing symptoms.

Case study

Inline quality inspection and defect containment

The challenge

End-of-line inspection finds the defect after the line has already built the next forty units. By the time a dimensional fault on a stamped panel reaches final audit, containment means sorting a shift of stock, and the customer is already asking for a PPAP review.

With Visor

Visor Inspect moves the check to the station that makes the part. Inline visual AI compares each unit against the control plan as it is built, flags dimensional and cosmetic faults the moment they appear, and Visor Document writes the inspection record against the part, the operator, and the drawing revision in force. Containment begins at the station that produced the defect rather than three shifts downstream.
Visor InspectVisor Document

Representative results

−64%

Defect escapes to final audit

100%

Of units inspected inline

3×

Faster containment

Get started

See Visor on an automotive line.

We work with global automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. Tell us where quality escapes and downtime cost you most, and we will show you the deployment that addresses it.

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