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Two existing sources were upgraded: the anomaly-detection preprint was previously abstract-only and its full text was read this session, and Cognex — previously recorded as blocked by HTTP 429 — serves normally to an ordinary browser, so three of its technical pages were read, with the retrieval method recorded. One manufacturer press release was added as vision deployment evidence — BMW, describing image recognition on its own lines — and it remains evidence of what the issuer says rather than independent validation, publishing no measured result. A second, Audi's spot-weld release, is included ONLY as explicitly labelled adjacent AI quality-control context: it identifies no camera, optical system or image sensor, its method predecessor was ultrasound, and no source read establishes an imaging modality for it, so it supports no vision claim here. An earlier draft of this revision treated it as the collection's flagship vision deployment, which was a category error corrected in peer review. Vendor pages are cited only for definitional, structural and requirement claims a vendor is the right authority for; no performance figure is taken from any of them. Two pairs of sources are recorded side by side as complementary rather than contradictory — a scoped pseudo-defect success against a general failure rate, and cost-per-escape against false-alarm frequency — and the collection does not assert an explanation for either pairing, since no source read tests one. Known gaps. The Springer defect-detection review remains behind publisher authentication and was not bypassed, so the measured error rates here still rest on a single 2018 study rather than on a survey of the literature. The final EMVA 1288 Release 4.0 documents are a membership download, so the parameter list here comes from the openly published March 2021 release candidate. The benchmark study's per-model results table was not transcribed because its values flatten ambiguously in extracted text and mis-mapping a cell would manufacture a number. Market-size figures remain deliberately omitted. The most-repeated figure in this collection — that around 77% of AI vision implementations never leave pilot — is still published with its provenance gap stated and no longer carries a chart of its own. Not yet editor-reviewed; every assertion reads as reported.","primer":"Machine vision in manufacturing is inspection: a camera and software decide whether a part is acceptable and hand that decision to an automation system. This collection is organised around a single problem — the published evidence about how well it works is much weaker than the volume of writing about it suggests, and the strongest sources are often the ones that say the least.\n\nStart with what the systems do, because it decides how to read every number that follows. The industry's own shorthand is GIGI — Guidance, Identification, Gauging, Inspection — which a vendor breaks into six application classes: defect detection, object detection and counting, measuring and gauging, locating and guiding, barcode reading, and character recognition and verification. These are not commensurable. A barcode has a ground truth that is checkable character by character; whether a faint mark on a metal surface is a defect can be hard for an expert to adjudicate. An accuracy figure from one class says nothing about another.\n\nThen the part that decides whether any of it works. Cognex states that poor lighting is the most common cause of poor machine vision performance, and that sophisticated cameras and software cannot make up for it. The design requirement is that illumination maximise contrast on the feature of interest and stay consistent against normal variation in parts and their arrangement — which is the whole failure mode written as a specification, since a system is only as stable as the lighting it was tuned under.\n\nThe industry does have a public standard, and what it covers is instructive. EMVA 1288, at Release 4.0 since June 2021, defines how to measure and present what a camera does: quantum efficiency, temporal dark noise, dynamic range, spatial non-uniformity, defect pixels. It standardises the sensor. No source read for this collection describes an equivalent standard for reporting how often a deployed system rejects a good part or passes a bad one — a statement about what was read here, not a claim that no such framework exists.\n\nOn deployments, the honest summary is that scale and method are public, performance is not, and the sample is very small. One manufacturer-authored machine vision record was retrievable this session: BMW, which has run AI image recognition in series production since 2018, built from around 100 photographs per feature taken by employees on a mobile camera. It publishes no false-reject rate, no escape rate, no test-set description and no line speed, and the one figure it does give — that reliability reaches 100% after a test run — defines no metric or test set. That absence is the finding. One record is not a survey, and this collection does not generalise beyond it.\n\nWhat measurement does exist points one way. On 2,042 real metal-box images in an unconstrained industrial environment, the best method in a peer-reviewed study achieved 10.6% false positives and 5.41% false negatives — roughly one good part in ten pulled for review, roughly one bad part in twenty getting through. A 2025 benchmark study is blunter about why published figures mislead: across nine datasets, eleven models and seven metrics, models reaching 99.9% image-level AUROC on the field's standard academic dataset degrade significantly on real production data, and its own corrective benchmark excludes that dataset entirely.\n\nTwo pairs of sources are held side by side here without being forced into conflict. BMW's 2019 release states that pseudo-defects — false alarms from dust or oil — no longer occur in one press-shop application; practitioners in 2026 call pseudo-defects the most common reason these deployments fail across the field. A solved instance and a general failure rate are not contradictory, and neither source speaks to the other's scope. 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