Kohn: Manufacturer loses $40M annually per facility to erroneous manual visual inspections
Josh Kohn · Scaling Computer Vision Technology with Josh Kohn of Meridian Performance Systems | The Innovators & Investors Podcast · Feb 17, 2026 · at 26:45
Josh Kohn, founder and CEO of Meridian Performance Systems, discusses expanding computer vision metrology into industrial manufacturing QA to eliminate false scrap.
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“In the manufacturing space, there is a large cost of quality assurance and erroneous quality assurance we've identified from one of our partners. They said they their facility loses about forty million dollars a year in items being pulled off the line because they did not meet the eyeball test of being conformant, and they have, A bunch of those that when they went into deeper review, they, you know, were still okay. They were within the tolerances, but everything's going through the line. You don't want to stop the line. It's cheaper at that moment to just pull that one off and let everything keep going, but it adds up over the course of a year.”
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