Project charter
What we’re building
Section titled “What we’re building”A computer-vision production-monitoring system for Louis Barton Zona Franca (LBZF), a dress-shirt manufacturer in Pereira, Colombia. PoE IP cameras and an edge Jetson run YOLOv8 person detection to measure cycle times against standard times, surface bottlenecks, and feed a web dashboard with Excel export — replacing the current manual stopwatch + whiteboard + Excel workflow.
Daily efficiency at LBZF runs between 44.9% and 68.7% against a 100% target, even with ~98.94% operator presence (from INDICADORES ABRIL.xlsx). Today, when a module underperforms, the industrial engineer (Ronald Gonzalez) walks the floor with a stopwatch and manually times each operation at every workstation. CV monitoring automates the time studies, surfaces problems in real time instead of after-the-fact, and creates the data substrate for later bottleneck and behavioral analysis.
Phase I instruments 2 workstations on the Angela module with 2 Amcrest IP8M-2779EW-AI varifocal turret cameras (ADR-001) feeding a single Jetson Orin Nano Super, running YOLOv8 person detection at 3–5 fps downscaled on the Jetson (ADR-004). Outputs: cycle-time events per workstation, basic dashboard, Excel export matching the format of the current INDICADORES ABRIL.xlsx.
Phase II extends to ~20 cameras with garment-type-aware fine-tuning, time-series efficiency alerts, AI bottleneck identification, and behavioral monitoring (phone use, eating, talking, unjustified absence).
Phase III scales to all 4 modules; an optional NVR (vendor TBD) is deferred for 4K playback if plant management requires it.
Why this scope, in this form
Section titled “Why this scope, in this form”- Family business. CEO Mariana Saker is the project lead’s aunt — gating decisions move faster than at a normal customer.
- Pilot conditional. Per the LBZF Needs Definition, Phase I is “a pilot test in 1 module — deployment conditional on the other three.”
- Academic angle. Submitted as a Castilleja-sophomore InspiritAI summer 2026 capstone with a target IEEE publication (CASE / Access / T-ASE / IROS).
- Replication / open-source ambition. Architecture and plant-side data meant to be referenceable for other small Latin-American manufacturers.
Current state (May 2026)
Section titled “Current state (May 2026)”- Hardware (locked 2026-05-11, all Amazon-returnable): Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit (8GB, 67 TOPS), Samsung 990 EVO Plus 4TB NVMe SSD, 2× Amcrest IP8M-2779EW-AI varifocal cameras (ADR-001), TP-Link TL-SG2210MP managed PoE+ switch (ADR-002), Waveshare aluminum Case A (passive; PWM fan still on the pre-flight buy list). Cat6 bulk cabling and mounts deferred until on-site measurements in Pereira.
- Software: v1.9 pre-deployment plan locked 2026-04-27. Build not yet started in repo (this Astro repo currently hosts only the landing page).
- Site: Landing page live at lbzfai.com with Auth0 sign-in and Cloudflare CI/CD.
- Comms: Mentorship transitioned from Sam Akinwande (Stanford / InspiritAI) to Andrew Kent (ex-Form AI) on 2026-05-02.
- Next milestone: 2026-05-15 trip to Buenos Aires to deliver a twin hardware set to the ITBA research team for parallel work.
- Phase I deployment: targeted July 2026 in Pereira.
Confidentiality
Section titled “Confidentiality”The LBZF Needs Definition classifies project material as “Confidencial — Uso Interno.” Public-facing surfaces (lbzfai.com, the public GitHub repo) should not expose operator names, station IDs, or KPI screenshots.
Roadmap
Section titled “Roadmap”Phase I — Prototype (Apr–Jul 2026)
Section titled “Phase I — Prototype (Apr–Jul 2026)”Instrument one module (6 workstations), end-to-end CV-driven time tracking, basic dashboard, Excel export.
Activity log
Section titled “Activity log”- 2026-03-12 — Project description doc created (earliest LBZF artifact in Drive)
- 2026-03-26 — Ambarella prep meeting notes; LBZF Emails doc created
- 2026-03-27 — Demo reels uploaded by Armando; UnitX evaluation prep
- 2026-03-28 — UnitX visit (Keven Wang) on security vs machine-vision camera tradeoffs
- 2026-03-30 → 03-31 — LBZF Computer Vision Project Drive folder created; Factory Visit 2025 photos uploaded
- 2026-04-15 — Ronald shares plant photos, KPI spreadsheets, ~41 operation videos
- 2026-04-17 → 04-18 — Claude LBZF folder created; Sam playbook + Phase I plan drafted; “Shared by Ronald 4/15” folder linked into team Drive
- 2026-04-25 → 04-27 — Hardware finalization week: master doc, hardware list, Photos of Modules deck, pre-deployment plan v1.9 frozen
- 2026-04-26 — First Sam Akinwande mentor session (Granola): architecture kickoff. Decisions: Jetson Nano in air-conditioned office, one PoE camera per workstation at 1080p/10–15 fps, YOLOv8, Tailscale, 4TB storage
- 2026-04-29 — Second Sam session (Granola): Jetson committed as final compute over PC. 8 cameras one-per-workstation as MVP. M1 MacBook flagged insufficient for fine-tuning; AWS-vs-new-laptop decision deferred
- 2026-05-02 — Mentor transition to Andrew Kent (Brown / ex-Form AI). Direction set: full prod stack day 1 (AWS, Auth0, Cloudflare, CI/CD); skip custom training in Phase I; ITBA twin-hardware delivery locked for May 15. Hardware purchased (Jetson, switch, NVMe, 6–8 cameras). Repo +
lbzfai.comdomain bought - 2026-05-10 — Second Andrew session. Astro landing page + Auth0 + Cloudflare deploy + custom domain
lbzfai.comgo live. AWS CLI installed. Thisdocs/tree created
Upcoming
Section titled “Upcoming”- 2026-05-15 — Buenos Aires trip: deliver twin hardware to ITBA team
- 2026-05 → 07 — Build dashboard MVP; develop + test on local data
- July 2026 — On-site deployment in Pereira (Phase I go-live)
Phase II — Time-series + Behavioral (Aug 2026 – May 2027)
Section titled “Phase II — Time-series + Behavioral (Aug 2026 – May 2027)”- Time-series efficiency alerts with per-module thresholds (
umbralesTBD per module) - AI bottleneck identification (which station / which operation gates the line)
- Quality-return tracking
- Behavioral monitoring: phone use, eating, talking, unjustified absence
- Hardware upgrade likely needed: Jetson Orin NX 32GB AGX tier (Phase I Nano Super insufficient for behavioral models)
- Camera count grows to ~20
Phase III — Scale (Jun – Aug 2027)
Section titled “Phase III — Scale (Jun – Aug 2027)”- Roll out to the remaining 3 modules (Carmenza, Camisetas, Empaque)
- Generalize the algorithm beyond Ref22 Slim
- Optional NVR (vendor TBD) for 4K playback if plant management requires it
Target submission via InspiritAI mentorship: IEEE CASE / IEEE Access / IEEE T-ASE / IROS. Sophia first author; ITBA team co-authors. InspiritAI sessions 21–25 are dedicated to drafting + submission.