Heliosoph

The math of an escape

Most defects are cheap. Escapes are not.

On many floors, quality means checking 5 parts out of a 5,000-piece run. Every part between those checks ships on faith.

The part that gets out

One bad part found on a customer's assembly line turns into sorting, containment, chargebacks, and a corrective action report. Let it happen twice and the account itself is at risk.

The run that drifts

Tooling wears. Temperature moves. A process can walk out of tolerance mid-shift, and by the time anyone measures a sample, hours of scrap are already in the bin.

What a station does

Teach it once. It watches from then on.

STEP 1

Teach

Show the station a handful of good parts, at your line. It learns what right looks like in minutes, with no programming on your side.

STEP 2

Watch

It inspects parts as they come off the machine and judges each one pass or fail, with the reading recorded for every part it sees.

STEP 3

Warn

When readings begin to trend, it flags the drift early, while the fix is still an adjustment and the scrap is still a handful.

A real reading

This is what the station sees.

Heliosoph report page: a crushed brass washer bore with circle fit, pin gauge readings, and a chart of deviation around the edge

A #8 brass washer we crushed in a vise on purpose. The station reads the bore the way a pin gauge would, maps the damage around the full circle, and separates a loose burr from true deformation. This page comes straight from the station's report.

Bore, as a pin gauge reads it: 0.1705 in
Out of round: 0.00432 in
Measurement uncertainty: 0.0007 in

Numbers taken from the reading shown above.

Where this goes

Every part. Every shift.

Sampling tells you about the five parts you checked. Heliosoph stations are built for the line itself: inspect all, or nearly all, of the parts you make, without adding an inspector to do it. We are looking for manufacturers who want to run that line first. If that is you, the pilot gets built around your parts.

Start with a free part audit.

Tell us what you make. I will come to your facility, pick up a handful of parts, and run them on a Heliosoph station.

Within days you get a written report of what the station saw, with readings like the one above. No cost, no obligation, and the report is yours either way.

Albert PuccianiFounder, Heliosoph

Catch it before it ships.