Inspection Designer was covered by Nikkei
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) covered Inspection Designer, our visual inspection software, online on 23 October 2026. The piece takes up the work with Kewpie Corporation on foreign-body inspection by zero-shot anomaly detection.
The article
AI外観検査のOUEN、事前学習なしで異物検知 キユーピーなど導入
Original Japanese headline / Nikkei online, 23 October 2026, “Startups” section
The article covers what the inspection floor at Kewpie Corporation was struggling with, how far Inspection Designer took them towards solving it, and where they intend to take it next within the company.
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The technology and the product in the article
Zero-shot anomaly detection — an AI that needs no training images
This is what the headline calls “no prior training”. Without learning either good or defective samples, it points at what does not belong on this product. Lines that cannot gather defective samples, and lines whose products change often, can start inspecting all the same. The technology at its core is patented.
Inspection Designer — inspection software featuring zero-shot anomaly detection
This is the software Kewpie Corporation uses. Around zero-shot anomaly detection, eight AI types and rule-based image processing and measurement combine into an inspection flow without code.
Inspection Designer, our visual inspection software
If you are looking at automating inspection
Zero-shot anomaly detection is not for food alone. There are detection examples on packaging boxes, circuit boards, metal parts, knitted fabric, building materials (wallpaper), pharmaceuticals, timber and grain (rice). Where production is high-mix and defective samples are hard to collect, detection can be tried without gathering training images.
Whether it suits your own subject is not something anyone can tell you without trying it, so the first conversation and the first validation are free of charge. We start with about thirty minutes together on the subject and what is giving you trouble.
“Could our inspection be automated at all?” is a fine place to start. Please do get in touch.
