Practical guides to AI vision and automation
Articles on inspection, site monitoring and business AI, written for the people who run plants and businesses.
Guides and articles from Industrial AI on AI vision inspection, site monitoring and business AI for New Zealand businesses, from computer vision vs machine vision to edge AI vs cloud AI. Unfamiliar terms are explained in the AI glossary.
Start with the basics
What is industrial AI?
Definition, use cases and how it works on New Zealand production lines.
Computer vision vs machine vision
AI vision vs rule-based inspection, and when each fits on your line.
Edge AI vs cloud AI
Why production lines run AI on site, and where the cloud still helps.
AI agent vs chatbot
What an AI agent does that a chatbot can’t.
ChatGPT vs Claude for business
Strengths, data handling and best-fit tasks compared.
Getting inspection right on the production line
Custom-trained vs generic AI models
Why your product needs a model trained on your own images.
How AI quality control works in manufacturing
How AI visual inspection detects defects on production lines.
Computer vision in manufacturing: 2026 guide
Why AI quality inspection is now practical for mid-sized factories.
Manufacturing & vision
AI vision inspection, quality control and custom-trained models for production lines.
- Computer vision ROI How to build a conservative business case for AI vision.
- What is computer vision? An introduction for business owners and managers.
- AI food safety inspection Contamination, label and hygiene checks with audit records.
- The cost of manual inspection The cost of sampling, fatigue and paperwork on a line.
Vehicles & sites
Trucks, loads, yards, warehouses and worksites, monitored with AI vision on new or existing cameras.
- Adding AI to existing cameras What your current CCTV can already do with AI, and when new cameras make sense.
- Quarry truck counting: GPS vs cameras Which way of counting trucks suits your site, and when to combine both.
- Construction site safety with AI PPE detection, virtual exclusion zones and near-miss records from site cameras.
- Computer vision in mining Safety, production and environmental monitoring from the same cameras.
- AI warehouse inventory monitoring Continuous stock visibility between stocktakes, from warehouse cameras.
- How quarry load verification works Image-backed load records that reconcile with the weighbridge.
Business AI
Voice agents, AI agents and office automation.
OpenClaw
Private AI agents on your own tools and channels.
Talk to us about your line
Tell us what you make and what needs checking, and we’ll tell you what AI vision can and can’t do.