Cost effective AOI alternative for low volume high mix PCB assembly

The High-Mix Bottleneck: Why Traditional AOI Fails

Traditional AOI machines are expensive CAPEX investments with long, complex setup times. They work for high-volume production but become a critical bottleneck for today's high-mix, low-volume (HMLV) batches. The cost and time required to re-program them for small batches kill your margins. Manual inspection is the common fallback, but it’s slow, unreliable, and simply can't scale to guarantee 100% quality.
 

The Solution: An AI-Powered Workstation, Delivered by Targano

Robovision and Targano have partnered to solve this exact problem. We combine Robovision’s powerful, low-code Vision AI platform with Targano’s deep expertise in production-line integration.

The result is a cost-effective, semi-automated inspection workstation that empowers your own operators—no deep AI expertise needed. Our platform learns from your 'golden board' and BOM file to immediately spot critical defects like missing components, wrong polarity, and incorrect parts.

• Cut Inspection Time in Half: Our AI instantly filters out defect-free parts, allowing your operators to focus only on boards that actually need inspection.
• Go from Board to Inspection in Minutes: Forget complex programming. Our system can be set up for a new board in under a minute.
• Detect Critical Errors: Reliably catch missing components, wrong components, and polarity issues that are easily missed by the human eye.
• An Affordable CAPEX Solution: Turn a standard digital microscope into a smart, automated inspection station at a fraction of the cost of a traditional AOI machine.