How a Compliance Monitoring Platform Can Improve Operational Efficiency

Given the competitiveness between manufacturers and other highly-regulated industries, it’s no longer enough just to be the most efficient when it comes to company operations. These businesses have to maintain quality, reduce waste, improve workflows and do it all while meeting compliance standards. How can you gain a competitive advantage while juggling so many requirements? 

The answer is a compliance monitoring platform. 

In the past, most compliance was tracked by hand: paper checklists, logbooks and clipboards were the norm. Inspectors or supervisors had to physically monitor whether or not safety gear was used properly or that products were being manufactured according to strict quality standards. Today, computer vision powered by machine learning and advanced artificial intelligence can do all of this and more. Here’s what to know: 

Real-Time Monitoring and Continuous Feedback

Using computer vision technology and monitoring software such as Matroid, enables companies to enjoy the freedom and flexibility of real-time monitoring capabilities together with instant detection of any operational or compliance issues. 

For example, consider manufacturing facilities where all employees are required to wear PPE gear, including safety helmets, gloves and reflective vests on the production floor. Rather than having a supervisor check every worker or randomly inspect employees to enforce the rules, Matroid’s computer vision platform does it automatically, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 

By installing cameras in key areas and training a no-code detector to recognize whether or not workers are wearing PPE, the system can alert supervisors if an employee is believed to be incompliant. Because Matroid scans video feeds in real-time, it can identify if the worker is missing any required gear. 

Through screen pop-ups or other connected systems, an alert is generated instantly when a violation happens, and an incident log is created. This allows team members to review the report that the system generated, greatly reducing the need for manual oversight while adhering to compliance requirements. 

Automated Visual Inspections

By automating the visual inspection process, Matroid reduces the need for manual checks, which can be tedious, time-consuming and prone to mistakes. In this way, Matroid helps companies large and small enjoy consistent quality control which in turn has a ripple effect on production and adherence to the rules and regulations. 

The process works through an AVI or Automated Visual Inspection system which combines high-resolution cameras with AI-driven algorithms to detect any defects or variations in real-time. Matroid is camera agnostic, meaning it works with any brand of high-resolution camera or hardware. With proper training and integration, the technology takes care of the inspections, reducing the potential for errors while keeping product quality in line with expectations. 

What’s more, AVI systems can operate continuously without slowing down, allowing human team members to focus on more strategic work. The end result is not only consistent quality, but a higher output, even for high-volume manufacturing and production. AVI systems also scale with production demands and can be trained to adapt to new inspection requirements. With Matroid’s no-code platform, even users without a technical or programming background can create and deploy custom detectors. 

Predictive Maintenance

Predictive maintenance with Matroid takes advantage of the latest in analytics to understand trends and visual data in order to anticipate equipment failures before they happen. Consider a manufacturing facility with long conveyor belts that transport materials between different workstations. Fully-functioning conveyor belts are a must in this enterprise, but over time they can wear down, fall out of alignment or develop cracks which can create costly breakdowns. 

Matroid can step in to help predict these failures before they happen. By installing cameras above and alongside the conveyor belts and training a custom detector to recognize issues like belt cracks, misalignment, debris or other unusual movement patterns like jitters, the system can monitor the conveyor belts’ performance in real-time. If an issue is detected or there’s the potential for a failure, an alert can be triggered and sent to the maintenance team. 

The system can also capture video footage for review and log the incident for future trend tracking. Rather than waiting for the belt to fail and having to halt production (not to mention the cost of downtime), the team can proactively schedule maintenance on the belts to keep things flowing. This same type of process applies to different workflows whether they’re robotic arms, press machines or pipelines. 

Next Steps Toward Implementing a Smart Compliance Monitoring Platform

Visual inspections, real-time monitoring and predictive analytics are by no means the only things that a computer vision compliance monitoring platform like Matroid is capable of. Systems like these are the very heart and soul of what it means to maximize operations efficiency. Through Matroid’s extensive no-code platform, it has never been easier for manufacturers and others in highly-regulated industries to take advantage of the advances in machine learning, artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies to streamline operations. Combined with real-time, continuous feedback, automation and detailed insights, systems like Matroid are helping businesses in a variety of industries make smarter, data-backed decisions while staying one step ahead of the competition. 

By leveraging compliance monitoring platforms, companies today can enjoy improved adherence to rules and regulations which in turn helps them to boost efficiency without sacrificing quality. The end result is better outcomes without cutting corners. The best part is, there’s no better time to start than now. 

We invite you to learn more about the many different ways that computer vision technology and machine learning systems are advancing what factories and industries are capable of thanks to the power and flexibility of no-code platforms. Contact us today to schedule a free demo of the Matroid system. We’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have and show you exactly how Matroid can help you monitor and stay compliant while staying competitive.