Major Wastage in Visual Inspection

We have visited various companies and all of them are still struggling with visual inspection.
In many cases, they are looking for the occasional defective product among mostly good products.
What I would like you to consider here is that "most of the products are good.
Most of them are "good by all accounts," but people go to the trouble of judging all of them.
Once the "good products by all accounts" are sorted out by automated visual inspection, they no longer need to be inspected by a person.
The remaining "slightly different items" only need to be judged by a person as to whether they are "good products or not. The concept of visual inspection is also changed from "looking for defective products" to "looking for good products.
Ideally, the introduction of automatic visual inspection would reduce the man-hours required for visual inspection to zero, but the reality is not that simple.
First of all, "good products that anyone can see" should not need to be inspected by human inspection. I think that is a good place to start.

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