Enabling photo analysis by IBM Maximo Visual Inspection

To help inspectors detect defects during inspections, you can enable analysis of the photos that the inspector takes during the inspection. The analysis is completed by IBM® Maximo® Visual Inspection.

Before you begin

The integration of IBM Maximo Mobile inspections and IBM Maximo Visual Inspection allows users to identify anomalies and defects while conducting an inspection. The following models in MVI are integrated with Maximo Mobile and help identify objects in images:
  • Faster R-CNN
  • YOLO v3
  • Tiny YOLO v3
  • Detectron2
  • High resolution
  • SSD
  • Anomaly optimized
These models present analysis results as a polygon surrounding the identified object.
Maximo Visual Inspection models that classify objects in images and videos are not integrated with Maximo Mobile, as mobile inspections do not perform video analysis or image/object classification. These models include:
  • GoogLeNet
  • SSN

If Maximo Civil Infrastructure is not installed, configure the object structures:

  1. Log in to Maximo Manage as an administrator.
  2. Go to System Configuration > Migration > Object Structures.
  3. Open the MXAPIINSPECTIONRES object structure.
  4. In the Source Objects for MXAPIINSPECTIONRES table, add a row.
  5. In the Object field, select IMAGEINFERENCE.
  6. In the Parent Object field, select INSPFIELDRESULT.
  7. In the Relationship field, select IMAGEINFERENCE.
  8. Save your changes.
  9. In the Source Objects for MXAPIINSPECTIONRES table, add a row.
  10. In the Object field, select ANOMALY.
  11. In the Parent Object field, select IMAGEINFERENCE.
  12. In the Relationship field, select ANOMALY_IMAGEINFERENCEID.
  13. Save your changes.

About this task

This feature is only available to customers who have both Maximo Manage and Maximo Visual Inspection. If a suitable model for the inspection type does not exist, you must ask your Maximo Visual Inspection administrator to create the model.

Procedure

  1. From the side navigation menu, click Planning > Manage Inspection Forms.
  2. Create an inspection form or create a revision of an existing inspection.
  3. Open the inspection form and add a question.
  4. Complete the details of the question and from the Response Fields menu, select Media > File upload so that the inspector can upload the photo for analysis.
  5. In the Model field, select the name of the model that you want Maximo Visual Inspection to use to analyze the photo.
    If you do not see the Model field, ask your system administrator to check the values in the required system properties.
  6. Click Done.

Results

During an inspection, an inspector can upload a photo and select Analyze photo. The inspector can continue the inspection while the photo is analyzed to detect anomalies. When the analysis is complete, the inspector can review and edit the results.