Industrial AI for automotive plastic injection plants
Tier 1, 2 and 3 automotive plastic injection plants operate under constant pressure: full lot traceability, zero customer defect PPM, and IATF 16949 audits that must always be ready — on machine fleets where modern presses sit next to others that are over a decade old.
IRIS — the industrial AI category iLEAN implements — captures what's lost on paper today, validates every data point with a human before it reaches the ERP, and places computer vision exactly where the human eye can no longer keep up with real production cadence. Below, twelve real use cases landed on this sub-sector: from paperless lot startup to the flagship system that coordinates the ERP, the labeler, Edge vision and the audit dossier against the defect that costs the business the most.
Capture without changing habits: photo, voice, email, integrations
Lot startup without paper latency
Payback 4-9 months · the lot exists in the system at shot one
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The old press hands over its curve
Payback 5-10 months · machine replacement capex deferred
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Resin delay caught in seconds
Payback 3-7 months · press downtime for missing material avoided
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The floor supervisor dictates on the round
No standalone payback · enabling piece
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Two taps before the master
No standalone payback · enabling piece
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Drying record straight into the ERP
Payback 4-9 months · 50-80% fewer quality and process seats
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Resin received with one photo
Payback 3-8 months · the dock from an hour to minutes
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Labeler stitched to the ERP order
Payback 3-6 months · zero labeling errors of human origin
See the case →Machine vision on the line, in real time
Flash and short shots caught part by part
Payback 5-12 months · from a 1-5% sample to 100% of parts
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First article against the master sample
Payback tied to your changeover rate · the whole lot protected
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IATF and PPAP dossier always ready
Payback 6-12 months · days of reconstruction down to zero
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More cases from this series
- Supervisor's voice, liveWith a headset and Connect voice mode, the floor supervisor logs incidents without ever stopping to type.
- The press panel that talksAn external camera reads an old, unnetworked injection press panel; its process parameters get digitized…
- Two-tap validationNothing iLEAN captures reaches the central system without a human confirming it first, in seconds, from…
- Paperless lot startupThe operator photographs the process sheet and traveler card at press startup; the lot exists in the…
- Resin delivery in secondsOne photo of the delivery note and CoA; iLEAN digitizes and traces the lot before it enters the…
- Resin drying straight to ERPiLEAN watches the resin drying control folder, validates the data, and posts it to the ERP. Up to 80%…
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