WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.—By incorporating a visual AI platform for industrial inspection into its extrusion operations, a manufacturer of miniature aluminum extrusions has added a new layer of intelligence to how the company monitors, controls, and continuously improves each step of production.
The manufacturer, Minalex, said in a company release that its investment in the on-premises visual AI platform, Detect-It AI, is enhancing worker safety, ensuring quality, and increasing efficiency while maintaining the tightest tolerances that its customers rely on.
Dunaway, a trusted partner to the extrusion industry, is leading the implementation as part of its expanding role in AI innovation for manufacturing. The company assists manufacturers with machinery integration, modernization, and maintenance, helping optimize production performance and quality across new and existing lines.
The initial installation focuses on workforce safety, with line-side cameras monitoring operators to identify behaviors outside of defined “net parameters,” triggering an alert, an automatic stop, or other predetermined actions.
By analyzing high-speed video directly from the production line, Detect-It AI enables the early detection of irregularities, reduces potential risks, and verifies critical process steps in real-time. This delivers immediate feedback to operators, minimizes disruptions, and ensures every extrusion meets specifications before moving downstream, the release stated.
“Integrating human expertise with intelligent technology is how we keep raising the bar for our customers,” said Minalex Vice President Michael Casey, in the release. “Detect-It AI gives our team enhanced visibility at line speed. In the future, we anticipate using the technology to confirm dimensions and finish quality sooner, guide adjustments with data, and support our people with tools that make great work even better.”
The initiative is said to support employees as much as it advances technology. By surfacing actionable insights at the point of production and instituting safety interlocks that respond to out-of-parameter conditions, Detect-It AI enables operators to make quicker, better-informed decisions while maintaining a strong focus on safety. The deployment complements Minalex’s workforce training, quality culture, and ongoing investments in facilities and equipment while serving customers across aerospace, defense, electronics, transportation, medical, and other industries.
By implementing Detect-It AI, Minalex is positioning itself at the forefront of extrusion-industry companies that are using visual AI to improve workforce safety, manufacturing efficiency, and product quality. It is also demonstrating a practical, people-first approach to continuous improvement and precision manufacturing.
“Our goal is to make AI practical and beneficial for every extrusion facility,” said Dunaway President Jason Markijohn, in the release. “At Minalex, we’re showing how intelligent vision can directly improve safety and performance on the shop floor, setting a new standard for how AI supports people in manufacturing.”
Minalex Corporation, located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, has been a family-owned business since it was founded more than 60 years ago. The company manufactures small-profile aluminum extrusions with precise tolerances, specializing in producing “the most custom solutions.”
Minalex is a fully AS9100 and ISO9001 certified company with AMS Specs, MIL Spec, and QQ Specs. “As a full-service organization, it provides finished, high-quality products, both standard and custom, that conform exactly to customer specifications,” the release stated.