Qualitymag iconQualitymagSep 28, 2026

Screening for Failures You Haven’t Seen Yet

Supervised machine learning asks: does this unit resemble a defect we've seen before?

Screening for Failures You Haven’t Seen Yet

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Supervised machine learning asks: does this unit resemble a defect we've seen before?

Conventional screening asks: does this unit violate a limit we set?

Both questions require us to already know what we're hunting.

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Supervised machine learning asks: does this unit resemble a defect we've seen before? Conventional screening asks: does this unit violate a limit we set? Both questions require us to already know what we're hunting.

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Conventional screening asks: does this unit violate a limit we set? Both questions require us to already know what we're hunting.

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