Rapta

Errors eat profits

One defect. Caught live. $239,000 saved.

Shared by the President of a defense contractor, Rapta caught a defect live during a plant tour, and the prime customers there estimated what it would have cost if it had shipped. The team fixed it on the spot, and that one catch paid for the system many times over. Rapta helps your team get it right at the station, so every part ships with confidence.

Quality & regulatory

The defect you’re afraid of shipping doesn’t ship.

Swapped serial numbers, missing fasteners, wrong parts, bad solder joints, unmasked connectors. Rapta catches the error at the moment it happens and archives photographic proof of every unit that left your floor.

Defense · DoW prime

ROI in two months. Full Rate Production three months early.

A DoW prime facing a missed FRP milestone deployed Rapta across complex build stations for real-time QA and traceable inspection evidence. They made the date, and the program paid the system back in two months.

Rework & capacity

The capacity is already in the building. It’s going into rework.

Rework consumes line time you have already paid for, and most plants have never counted it. Rapta solves quality issues at the station instead of at final test – and gives that capacity back without new headcount or new footprint.

  • On-premises or air-gapped
  • ITAR compliant
  • Deploys in hours, not months
  • No-code setup

Where the ROI comes from

Roughly 80% of the ROI our customers measure is quality savings and throughput increases.

By reducing defects, rework, and inefficiencies – and increasing throughput – customers see measurable improvements in both operational performance and overall ROI.

80%
ROI from error reduction
Customer-reported ROI across Rapta’s installed base.
$239,000
Saved by preventing a single defect
Defense contractor CEO, on record. Caught live during a facility tour with major defense primes present.
54%
Less inspection time
Shimadzu USA Manufacturing, first year, measured against baseline cycle times.
20+
Critical errors prevented from shipping
Laboratory instruments manufacturer, reported by their Manufacturing Leader. Tens of thousands of dollars avoided.

How the savings are produced

Catch it at the station, and it never becomes a cost.

Rapta is a manufacturing intelligence platform leveraging cameras and sensors to deliver smarter manual and robotic build stations. It watches work in progress, compares it against the known-good build, and intervenes at the moment of error – not at final test, not at the customer.

01 · Detect

Every station, every unit, in real time

FOD, torque, serial numbers, kitting counts, wiring, conformal coating, solder joints. Rapta inspects 100% of builds rather than a sample, so the escape has nowhere to hide.

02 · Stop

The unit doesn’t move until it conforms

The operator gets visual and audible feedback at the station while the unit is still in front of them. Rapta holds shipment on anything it cannot certify. A defect corrected here costs seconds; the same defect found by your customer costs a program.

03 · Prove

Photographic evidence of every unit shipped

Serial, part, date code and batch, timestamped and archived on your hardware. Traceability arrives as a by-product of the work – which is what kills the cost of assembling evidence after the fact.

● LINE 3 · LIVEBUILD 4471-A
  1. Station 01Kit verified – 14 of 14
  2. Station 02Torque confirmed – 6 fasteners
  3. Station 02Fastener 5 out of sequence – operator prompted
  4. Station 02Corrected at station · 39 s
  5. Station 03Conformal coating mask – pass
  6. Station 04Serial 0447-11B matched to build record
Photographic record archived · on-premises

Proof

5 of the top 10 defense contractors deploy Rapta.

Defense · DoW prime

Full Rate Production. Three months early.

A DoW prime facing a missed FRP milestone deployed Rapta across complex build stations for real-time QA visibility, operator video guidance and traceable inspection evidence. They made the date.

“Rapta cut our inspection time by more than half and stopped defects at the station instead of at final test. The payback showed up in the first year.”
Jim Oswell · Plant Manager
Shimadzu USA Manufacturing
2 months
To full ROI
Reported by the customer’s Director of Operations, program on a government contract, 2025.
54%
Less inspection time
Shimadzu USA Manufacturing, first year, measured against baseline cycle times.
50+
Defects prevented from shipping
Shimadzu USA Manufacturing, first year of deployment, per Rapta build records.

Where you sit

Two buyers. Same number, different line on the P&L.

VP Manufacturing · Plant Manager

The capacity is already in the building. It’s going into rework.

We’re not asking you to hire anyone or expand the footprint. Rapta finds the capacity you’re already paying for, and makes a new hire productive in a week instead of a year.

See how capacity is recovered →

Director of Quality · Regulatory

One escape erases a year of good numbers.

You are not measured on defects found. You are measured on the ones that got out. Rapta stops the escape at the station, and every build arrives photographed, timestamped and archived before the auditor asks.

Traceability under QMSR →

Deployment

Most plants we walk into have a vision system somewhere that took nine months to commission and nobody uses any more. If that’s your experience, the skepticism is earned – ask us how long setup actually takes, and hold us to the answer.

Setup

Visual and no-code. No integrator on retainer, no image-capture campaign, no months of commissioning.

Training data

Our physics engine takes just a few images of good and incorrect builds and creates a synthetic training set capable of producing production-grade vision models.

Your data

On-premises or air-gapped. It never leaves the facility, never touches public cloud, and never trains another customer’s models.

Compliance

CMMC compliant, ITAR-appropriate governance, records retained for NTSB, FDA, DOE and NHTSA requirements.

Trusted on production lines at

Defense primes, medical device, industrial and precision manufacturers.

Rheem
Elbit Systems
Shimadzu
Ruud
Trak Tecom
Repligen
Audio Precision
A-dec
Biamp
Knight's Armament
E&M
Space Florida
MXD
Michigan Tech

Bring us your last escape. We’ll show you where it would have stopped.

A virtual demo takes thirty minutes. Bring the defect that got out, the rework number nobody wants to quote, or the station that fails your audits – and we’ll run the numbers with you.