Maneva and Roboflow

Maneva offers two agents, Roboflow scales to every line and use case

Build a vision agent for each station on one platform, roll it out to the next line, and see every camera and plant in one place. Over 2 million engineers build with Roboflow.

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Why are manufacturers choosing Roboflow?

Roboflow is enterprise vision AI infrastructure, used by more than half of the Fortune 100, with SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and air-gapped deployment. One platform that scales from the first station to every line in every plant.

  • Any use case, one platform

    Defect detection, assembly verification, counting, OCR, PPE, and safety, each built as its own agent with the same tools.

  • Roll out to the next line

    Reuse a trained model and its Workflow on the next line or plant, then retrain on that line's images in days.

  • Every camera in one view

    Vision Events rolls up predictions and images from every camera and site, filterable by shift, line, lot, or serial range.

  • Roboflow Annotate labeling cans with AI box prompting

    Fast data labeling

    Label data quickly with a suite of AI-assisted annotation tools to augment human labeling or fully automate your data labeling pipeline.

  • Workflow blocks for notifications and integrations

    Build vision AI applications with ease

    Use a low-code open source platform to simplify building and deploying vision AI applications.

  • A video stream with detections and its NVIDIA Jetson device running

    Edge deployment

    Cloud and edge deployments (NVIDIA Jetson, Raspberry Pi, or mobile devices) for real-time, on-premise inference.

  • A list of NVIDIA Jetson devices and their status

    Devices for every scenario

    Software, compute, cameras: all the tools you need to deploy vision AI.

  • Photos from datasets across industries

    Datasets and models for every industry

    Access thousands of datasets and pre-trained models to kickstart your computer vision projects.

  • Logos of OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Anthropic, Google and Qwen

    Flexible model licensing

    Choose from a range of licensing options to fit your needs, whether for commercial use, private deployment, or collaboration across teams.

Ready to scale inspection and safety AI across your plants?

  • Start with your own cameras and images

    Bring footage from the industrial or security cameras already on your line into Roboflow and label it with AI assistance.

  • Deploy with Roboflow

    Run on an NVIDIA Jetson, an air-gapped server, or the Roboflow AI1 device, and trigger PLCs from Workflows.

  • Automate data labeling

    Use AI labeling in Roboflow to automate 90% of human labeling.

OK I’m ready, how do I use Roboflow?

Roboflow makes it easy to build, train, and deploy custom computer vision models, even if you’re not a machine learning expert.

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Talk to a Vision AI engineer about every line and use case

Bring us your toughest quality or safety problem and we'll map a working solution on the first call.

Ask us about:

  • Solution architecture for inspection, safety, counting, and OCR on the cameras you choose
  • A live demo on your own line footage
  • Deployment options: edge, on-prem, or air-gapped
  • Published pricing you can see before you sign

Over 80,000 organizations build with Roboflow.

  • Rivian
  • Pella
  • Chobani
  • USG Corporation
  • BNSF Railway
  • American Woodmark
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Compare Maneva and Roboflow

Maneva brings factory vision applications to production through VITA for quality and downtime and ALIS for safety and productivity, with its team supporting installation and configuration. Roboflow gives your engineers the tools to build and expand vision applications themselves. Start with one inspection, then carry the models, application logic, and deployment experience into the next station.

Roboflow Agent helps turn a production problem into a working application: recommend models, train on your images, and build Workflows that connect predictions to actions. Auto Label (opens in a new tab) drafts annotations from a text prompt for your team to review. When a new product arrives, your engineers can update the dataset, retrain, and test the application against that product’s requirements. The MCP integration and ChatGPT plugin (opens in a new tab) put project management, labeling, training, and prediction testing inside the tools they already use.

That control extends across plants. Run supported models and Workflows on your own edge hardware, with Enterprise options for PLC integration, device management, access controls, and hands-on implementation support. Deployment Manager and Vision Events help teams monitor supported devices and retain inspection images, predictions, and production context. Engineers can investigate a problem by line or shift, review the relevant examples, and use them to improve the next model version.

You can begin before committing to a plant-wide rollout. Roboflow’s free plan includes private projects, unlimited seats, 10 monthly credits, self-hosted inference, and supported model weight downloads. Prove the first application on your own images, then expand with a platform your team can inspect, modify, and operate.

Maneva vs Roboflow: Feature by Feature

FeatureRoboflowManeva
Vision agentsBuild your own, one specialized agent per camera or use case, as many as you needTwo, VITA (quality and downtime) and ALIS (safety and productivity), configured by Maneva
Use cases coveredDefect detection, assembly verification, counting, OCR, PPE and safety compliance, logistics, and any custom vision taskDefect detection, label and seal verification, counting, product tracking, OEE and downtime analysis (VITA); PPE, hand hygiene, danger zones, slip and fall (ALIS)
Who builds the agentYou do, on your own images, with AI-assisted labelingManeva does; proprietary agents tuned by Maneva staff after an on-site assessment
Label your own dataYes, Auto Label from a text prompt plus Smart Polygon powered by Segment AnythingNot documented; no customer-facing labeling tool
Train your own modelYes, RF-DETR, YOLO (v8 / v11 / v26), Detectron2, and more; retrain as parts and lighting changeNot documented; positioned as removing custom training
Export and own model weightsYesNo, proprietary patent-pending agents
Sub-agents for frontier models (MCP)Yes, every trained model is exposed over MCP so frontier models can call it as a specialized vision tool, and agents can query Vision Events history over MCPNo; agents are closed and are not exposed to outside models
Model architecturesOpen, user-selectable registryProprietary; no architecture or foundation model publicly named
Camera supportAny RTSP, USB, GigE, or industrial camera, plus the Roboflow AI1 device with integrated camera and lightingHardware-agnostic; existing industrial or security cameras, RGB, depth, SWIR, X-ray, thermal
Edge deploymentYes, NVIDIA Jetson, x86 servers, Roboflow AI1, fully offlineYes, NVIDIA edge devices; cloud data layer on AWS by default
PLC and line integrationYes, PLC Reader, PLC Writer, and OPC UA blocks in Workflows (OPC UA, Modbus TCP, EtherNet/IP)Yes, accept/reject/reroute up to 30 decisions per second; ERP, MES, and SCADA via API; protocols not documented
No-code application logicYes, visual Workflows chain detection, OCR, counting, and PLC output without code, with a line-side HMIConfigured by Maneva; customers use the Orchestration Platform for dashboards, alerts, and agent tuning
Dashboards and analyticsYes, Vision Events aggregates predictions, images, and metadata from every camera and site into one dashboard, filterable by shift, line, lot, or serial range, with saved filtersYes, Orchestration Platform with multi-site, facility, and agent dashboards, OEE, root-cause analysis
Operator feedback loopYes, operators flag wrong predictions from the line-side HMI; flagged events are stored with the image and go straight into the next training setNot documented; agent tuning is done by Maneva staff
Self-serve sign-up and free tierYesNo; demo request only
Time to first agentDays, on your own images, starting the same dayNot disclosed; deployment begins with an on-site assessment by Maneva staff
API and SDKYes, Python SDK, REST API, MCP server, public docsIntegration API mentioned; no public API reference, SDK, or docs
Open sourceYes, supervision and inference librariesNo
ComplianceSOC 2 Type II, HIPAA with BAAs, PCI DSSStates SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified; type and scope not published
Air-gapped deploymentYes, Docker-based offline installEdge inference runs locally; fully air-gapped offering not documented, data stored on AWS by default
PricingPublished plans; free tier; usage you can see before you signNot published; quote-based, expanding one agent and one line at a time

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