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Finding the defects after the rolling process and ensuring the steel quality
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Steel is a crucial material in the world, and the steelmaking process includes cold rolling and hot rolling. After the processing, various defects such as porosity, impurities, scratch, hot tears, and cracks may affect the overall quality and result in financial loss and customer complaints. With the emergence of AIoT, more and more steel makers now have chosen Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) to inspect large volumes of steel coils to maintain the quality at a high level and save labor costs and time.
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In the past, the inspection relies on human eyes; but the steel coils could be hundreds of meters long. What’s more, the production of steel coils is too fast for human eyes to keep up and the staffs often miss out on the defects. Therefore, the system the customer needs not only requires excellent processing capability but also GPU compatibility to enhance AI inference.
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| Main Requirements |
- High computing performance
- A wide temperature range supported
- GPU compatibility
- Supports mainstream camera interface
- Wide range of power input
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The industrial edge computing system with a GPU does not let go of any defect
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 Axiomtek proposes the IPC974-519-FL, an industrial edge computing system with GPU support, for the application. It supports a powerful NVIDIA® GPU with up to 300W TDP for deep learning and automated optical inspection. The industrial system is powered by the Intel® Xeon® E3 v5, Intel® Core™ or Celeron® processors with the Intel® C236 chipset. It has four high-speed and full-size PCIe/PCI slots to support GPU, vision, motion, data acquisition, frame grabber and I/O cards. In addition, Axiomtek provides four different types of I/O modules for COM, LAN, USB, and DIO.
The IPC974-519-FL is equipped with four easy-swappable 2.5" HDDs with Intel® RAID 0,1,5 for extensive storage needs. There is also a full-size PCI Express Mini Card slot with a SIM slot (USB & PCIe interface) for 3G/LTE, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or other connections. Moreover, the IPC974-519-FL has two SMA-type antenna holes. To satisfy the wide temperature variations, it offers an easy-to-install fan module to help dissipate heat generated within the system when high power consumption PCI/PCIe cards are installed. An optional built-in power board provides 300W power to add-in graphics cards.
The system has a wide operating temperature range of -10°C to +70°C and a 24 VDC (uMin=19V/uMax=30V) DC power input for harsh operating environments. It also includes Intel® AMT 11.0 for easy remote management and Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 for optimum security.
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Deploying a high-performance system levels up the defect detection rate
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The IPC974-519-FL provides stable and high performance to run the AI inference. Its high compatibility, wide operating temperature and small size make it a perfect fit for the steel factory. To enhance the inspection efficacy, an NVIDIA® GeForce RTX-2080 GPU is installed. Through a PoE frame grabber card from Axiomtek, the customer connects multiple IP cameras to replace the human inspection to achieve a higher defect detection rate and locate the defects at high speed.
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| System Configurations of the IPC974-519-FL |
- LGA1151 socket Intel® Xeon® E3 v5, 7th/6th gen Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 & Celeron® processor, up to 80W (codename: Kaby Lake/Skylake)
- Intel® C236 chipset
- Supports 4 PCIe/PCI slots for full-size add-in cards
- Supports system power-on delay function
- -10°C to +70°C wide range operating temperature range
- Supports ECM BIOS setting
- Supports Intel® RAID 0,1,5
- Supports NVIDIA® GPU (up to 300W TDP)
- Supports TPM 2.0
- Supports Intel® AMT 11.0
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With the AOI solution, as the quality of the steel coils turns out higher, the downstream customers are more satisfied, and the return rate has declined. As a leader in IPC, Axiomtek has rich experience in AIoT with reliable products and trusted services and is the most helpful and dependable long-term partner for digital transformation.
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