Rivet Inspection AI

Count every rivet, check each position against the golden panel, and catch missing, proud, and damaged heads.

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AI inspection of a riveted metal panel, highlighting a missing rivet and a proud rivet head among many outlined rivets.

Rivet Inspection AI for the Toughest Airframe and Sheet Metal Assembly Lines

Deploy Anywhere, Run Everywhere
Run rivet inspection on fixed, gantry, and line scan cameras over full-size panels and assemblies, on the edge, on-prem, air-gapped, in your VPC, or via API.
One Platform, Full Adoption
Tools every aerospace team can adopt, from sheet metal mechanics and inspectors to manufacturing and quality engineers, no separate ML team required.
Secure, Compliant, and Audit-Ready
Data stays safe with SOC 2 Type II compliance, encrypted data, and an uptime SLA, with an image and rivet map for every panel and serial number.

“The vision AI solutions we developed with Roboflow have been a core component of connecting our teams and unlocking their ability to collaborate.”

Lou Stocco

Director of Manufacturing Advanced Analytics, USG

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Bring us your toughest rivet inspection problem and we'll map a working solution.

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Solution architecture that fits your panels, fixtures, and AS9100 quality system
A live demo on images of your own riveted panels
Deployment options: edge, on-prem, air-gapped, or VPC
ROI modeling against first-pass yield, rework, nonconformance reports, and inspection hours

Over 80,000 organizations build with Roboflow.

Rivian
Pella
Chobani
USG Corporation
BNSF Railway
American Woodmark

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Vision AI is transforming businesses

Customers across the board are solving complex challenges and driving meaningful impact.

Automotive customer
$10 million
Saved by automatically detecting defects on the production line
Logistics & freight company
90%
Less time spent manually tracking shipping inventory
Building materials supplier
60%
Lower customer return rate with improved product quality

Check Every Rivet, from the First Panel to Final Assembly

Add a real-time inspection layer to every riveted panel with Roboflow vision AI for rivet inspection. Built for airframe, space, and defense sheet metal assembly where one panel carries hundreds or thousands of rivets, an inspector counts them against a drawing by eye, and a single missing or misplaced rivet sends the panel back for rework or a nonconformance report.

Count and position:

Detect every rivet on a full-size panel and compare the count to the golden panel or drawing.
Check each rivet against its reference location, and flag missing, extra, and misplaced rivets.
Verify rivet pitch, row spacing, and edge distance against your tolerances.

Head and installation quality:

Flag proud, tilted, and cocked heads, and countersunk heads that sit high or low.
Catch cracked and deformed heads, tool marks, and damage to the skin around the rivet.
Confirm the right rivet type and head style in each location, alongside fastener verification.

Panels, records, and FOD:

Find Clecos, temporary fasteners, and loose rivets left on or inside the assembly, alongside foreign object detection.
Store a rivet map and image set for every panel and serial number for buyoff and nonconformance records.
Trend findings by panel, station, shift, and rivet type to see where rework starts.

Bring intelligence to every riveted panel today. Stop missing and misplaced rivets from becoming rework, nonconformance reports, and escapes to final assembly.

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Frequently asked questions

What is rivet inspection with Vision AI?

Rivet inspection with Vision AI uses cameras over the panel and a trained computer vision model (opens in a new tab) to find every rivet, compare its count and position to a golden panel or drawing, and flag missing, extra, misplaced, and damaged rivets. It pairs with sheet metal missed hole detection before riveting and aircraft skin inspection once the aircraft is in service.

How does it check rivets against a golden standard?

A detection model finds the center of every rivet. A Workflow lines the panel image up with the reference, matches each detected rivet to its expected location, and reports any rivet that is missing, extra, or outside its position tolerance as a pass or fail with a marked-up image.

Can it inspect large panels with small rivets?

Yes. Large panels are imaged with several fixed cameras, a camera on a gantry, or a line scan camera, and image tiling splits each high-resolution image into tiles so small rivet heads are found and stitched back onto the full panel.

Can it run in a secure facility and integrate with our quality systems?

Yes. Roboflow runs on-prem and fully air-gapped, so images and models stay inside your network, and sends results over OPC UA, MQTT, or REST (opens in a new tab), or to a database, for MES, quality, and nonconformance systems.

Roboflow serves as the inspection engine, and your quality and engineering teams own the drawings, tolerances, and buyoff.

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