From visual workflow to CRA-Ready Edge deployment on a production line
Industrial AI projects often fail after the prototype, when an AI workflow must be connected to shop-floor equipment, operated over years, and maintained securely. This talk presents a field-oriented deployment pattern developed by SECO for production-line monitoring and control.
The demonstrator combines a SECO Modular Vision HMI, based on a SMARC computer-on-module, with Clea, SECO's edge-to-cloud software stack. Engineers build the acquisition, validation, vision/inference and control workflow in Clea Studio AI; the workflow is containerized and deployed to the Modular Vision device through Clea Edgehog. At runtime, the edge node interfaces with line data, executes local processing, manages offline operation, and exposes telemetry and operational status to the platform. The session will focus on concrete engineering choices: interface mapping between equipment and workflow nodes, deployment packaging, observability, update rollback, and separation between time-critical control functions and non-deterministic AI processing.
The hardware use case is based on SMARC, which is a SGET rather than a PICMG specification. However, it illustrates the same standardized module/carrier separation central to PICMG COM Express and COM-HPC: the application, BSP and lifecycle tooling must remain portable across compute modules, while carrier and HMI integration retain product-specific I/O.
The final section discusses CRA readiness in practice. We will show how a controlled Clea OS production image, full SBOM traceability, vulnerability management, and secure over-the-air updates create an auditable route from prototype to a maintainable embedded product.
Gianluca Venere is SECO’s Director of Product Strategy.
With an Executive MBA and over 15 years of proven experience leading multinational teams in the context of innovation, he developed a deep knowledge of the market and technology trends, is capable of anticipating market changes, innovation trends and manage new growth opportunities. He’s accustomed to collaborating with cross-functional teams of the entire ecosystem composed by partners, startups, research centers, internal R&D, customers, suppliers to achieve the corporate goals.
Working with SECO since 2006, he moved from a technical to a managerial role, acquiring the necessary skills to improve product/service performance, evaluate market coverage, manage demand generation and institutional relationships with all stakeholders.