[JofArnold]

Mechanical engineer turned software engineer here; I love this kind of stuff and I frequently wonder how I might apply my software expertise to that domain again. Amongst other things I worked in automotive and the components I worked on were forged and heat treated high strength steels. The defects in forged components are often very small (tens of microns) but I'd be curious if this could work there. We used powerful microscopes - including electron microscopes - on the production lines so maybe that would work?

[lasermatts]

That's another very, very interesting case we thought about tackling. That sounds like something that's ripe for transformer-based vision models to keep the overall size of the model down.

What kind of timescales do you get when measuring parts in an electron microscope case? Are these crankshafts whizzing by, or something like a ship propeller where people spend days making sure every inch is covered?

[a1rb4Ck]

for forged parts, magnetic particle deposit might enhance defect under UV light. Here [0] is a crankshaft inspection method that mixed UV light with SSD detection. [0] https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-020-06467-4