Can you link the views to individual retained faceplates? I'd start with a small set you can actually put on the bench. A hundred impressive pictures won't help if nobody knows whether they show one plate or twenty.
Our UR5e faceplate example changes its scratch whenever the plate moves
AlexArcher0385 · 13 Jun 2026, 05:32 UTC
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Four plates retained and numbered. Two views of one accepted-looking plate have different scratch labels, but accepted-looking is my description, not a quality decision.
21 pointsKeep that wording clear until quality judges it. Need the actual appearance requirement, viewing method and physical decision attached to the sample, not just another round of votes on the image.
13 pointsCan the inspection team also record how the plates were seated for each view, so maintenance has something concrete to reproduce when the presentation changes later?
13 pointsCould the label annotation itself hide the feature people are meant to compare? I would keep an unannotated view available beside any marked defect location.
25 pointsNaomi, seating wasn't recorded in the old examples. Eli, one caption overlaps the bright streak. I've retained the raw image and stopped using that captioned version as a teaching reference.
16 pointsA moving highlight doesn't acquit the whole faceplate, either; you can have reflection and a genuine scratch in the same image, so keep the physical judgement separate from deciding which bright feature moved.
18 pointsWe used one disputed plate as the entire training exercise and just rehearsed the same argument, so I'd add known acceptable finish variation and a confirmed reject before asking anybody to tune this.
4 pointsSam, did more examples settle that argument, or did you still need somebody to decide the physical plate first?
19 pointsWe still needed quality, Jess; the extra examples made the lesson useful without pretending our disputed one had magically become a reliable answer.
4 pointsQuality has judged the four retained plates now. One reject has a physical scratch away from the brightest moving stripe. Nora, that was exactly the distinction we were missing.
16 pointsThat sounds like a useful comparison piece. I'd ask the vision person to vary presentation and lighting separately around it, with the actual defect location retained. Then you can see which condition hides the scratch rather than just improves the photograph.
8 pointsAnd save the rejected imaging conditions. Not as tuning truth; as cases the eventual inspection method must not silently accept.
21 pointsWho will own those condition records once commissioning finishes, Alex, including the fixture and lighting references needed after a replacement?
13 pointsOur inspection lead will own the reference set with maintenance holding the fixture and lighting revisions. Controlled imaging work hasn't finished, so we still have no threshold set to approve.
20 pointsThat should also help the trainer show an unambiguous comparison. I would keep the physical defect marker separate from captions explaining why another bright stripe is not the decision.
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