Functional-test failures
A failure at end-of-line means rework at the most expensive possible moment — after every minute of value has already been added.
Pre-launch · design partners opening for 2026
Every unit,first-passperfect.
Duromex is the autonomous operations layer for appliance factories. It perceives every unit — forming, enamel, foam, wiring, leak and functional test — acts on every stage, and uses a line-and-product twin to hit target quality, yield and takt before the build.
- 01Form & stampPass
- 02Weld & seamPass
- 03Enamel & paintAdjust
- 04Foam & insulateWatch
- 05Wire & assemblePass
- 06Leak & function testPass
- 07Rate & packPass
Station decision<100 ms Target
AutonomyAdvisory
Every writeLogged
Built with design partners across the white-goods industry
Refrigeration OEM · EU
Laundry OEM · North America
Cooking OEM · Turkey
Dishwashing OEM · Italy
Air-conditioning OEM · Asia
Tier-1 cabinet supplier
Design-partner programme, 2026. Duromex is pre-launch — partner identities are withheld under NDA and shown by segment, not by logo.
One appliance.
Seven stages.
One autonomous loop.
A refrigerator is formed, welded, enamelled, foamed, wired, tested and packed. Today each stage is a separate machine with a separate vendor and a separate blind spot. Duromex runs them as a single loop that perceives every unit and acts on every stage.
Form & stampWeld & seamEnamel & paintFoam & insulateWire & assembleLeak & function testRate & pack
Thin margins die of a thousand small failures
Hundreds of millions of appliances are built every year in one of the most competitive, razor-thin-margin industries on Earth. These are the six leaks that decide whether a plant makes money.
Refrigerant & water leaks
A hidden leak is a warranty return, an energy-rating miss and, under tightening F-gas rules, a compliance event.
Surface, weld & enamel defects
A dent, a bad seam or a paint run downgrades the product and pushes it into a rework loop that never recovers its margin.
Foaming voids & density errors
Polyurethane insulation sets thermal performance. A void you cannot see becomes an energy rating you cannot claim.
Wiring & component errors
A mis-seated connector or a missed torque becomes a field failure, and at volume, a recall.
Labour cost, turnover & high mix
High-volume lines fight relentless turnover, while frequent model changes strain fixed automation that cannot adapt.
Perceive. Plan. Act.
Then prove it.
Perceive
Fused vision, thermal, acoustic, pressure-decay, torque-tool, PLC and functional-test streams describe the panel, the surface, the assembly and the leak path on every unit — not a sample.
- 20–60 camera and sensor streams per line Aspirational
- Sub-100 ms station decisions where takt demands it Aspirational
- Every unit carries a serialised perception record
Plan
The orchestrator plans the form-and-finish, foam, assemble-and-wire and leak/functional-test sequence for the product actually on the line — including model changeovers.
- Product, BOM and recipe grounded planning
- cuOpt line balancing and test sequencing
- Changeover plans validated in the twin first
Act
Adaptive control writes back into the press, the enamel line, the foaming machine, the assembly stations and the testers — within the authority the plant grants.
- Graduated autonomy: shadow → advisory → control
- Idempotent steps with fail-safe line stop
- Every write is scoped, logged and reversible
Sense & predict
Surface, weld and assembly defects, foaming voids, refrigerant and water leaks and functional performance are predicted before the tester confirms them.
- Defect-to-cause attribution upstream
- Void and density-gradient forecasting
- Micro-leak signatures below tester thresholds
Optimise
First-pass yield, scrap, rework, energy and line balance are optimised continuously across the factory, not tuned once per quarter.
- First-pass-yield uplift as the primary metric
- Scrap and rework attributed to a station
- Energy per unit tracked against the rating
Log & retrain
Every action lands in an immutable, assurance-grade quality and safety audit log. Every engineer correction trains the models.
- Citation-backed, traceable outputs
- Versioned per-tenant models and memory
- Warranty outcomes fed back to the corpus
A system of action, not another dashboard
Incumbents sell a press, or a paint line, or a foaming machine, or a tester, or an MES. None of them close the loop. Duromex is the layer that does.
Closed loop
Perception wired to control
Vision, thermal, acoustic, pressure and test signals do not stop at a dashboard — they write back into the press, the foamer, the stations and the testers, inside the authority you grant.
Twin
Hit quality before the build
An Omniverse line-and-product twin simulates forming, foaming, assembly and functional performance to hit target quality, yield and takt before a single unit is made.
Assurance
Auditable by construction
Every agent action lands in an immutable quality and safety audit log, with citations back to the BOM, recipe, standard or procedure that justified it.
Moat
The craft, encoded
Every supervised correction from a process engineer or test technician trains the models — capturing scarce craft that currently walks out of the plant at retirement.
Federated
Learn across plants, not across IP
Rare defect, leak and assembly-fault patterns learned at one factory transfer to every maker running similar lines — without moving recipes or quality data.
A $22B market that still runs on spot inspection
$22B
TAM — appliance automation, forming, paint, foaming, test, assembly and MES software
$5.5B
SAM — autonomous control, defect sensing, foaming optimisation and appliance twins
$300M
SOM — three-year obtainable
12%
annual market growth
Market figures are Duromex estimates built from public automation, test and MES market data. Autonomous forming, assembly and test control, surface and assembly-defect sensing, foaming optimisation and appliance digital twins are the fastest-growing segments.
Seven agents. One factory orchestrator.
Each agent owns a stage of the build. The orchestrator sequences them against the product actually on the line.
Autonomy that knows what it is building
Duromex is vertical by design. A refrigerator cabinet, a washer drum and an enamelled oven cavity fail in completely different ways — and a generic vision vendor treats them all as pixels.
Refrigeration
Cabinets are formed, foamed and charged — then judged by a leak test and an energy rating. Duromex links the foam shot and the seam to the number the tester prints.
- Foam density, distribution and void prediction per cabinet
- Refrigerant leak signature detection before charge-and-seal
- Energy-performance forecast from process conditions, not just test results
- Door seal and gasket compression verification
Laundry
Drums, cabinets and wiring harnesses at high volume. Balance, seal and electrical integrity decide whether a machine survives its warranty period.
- Drum and cabinet forming control with seam-quality scoring
- Water-leak detection at fill, drain and seal stations
- Harness routing, connector seating and polarity verification
- Vibration and spin functional-test triage
Dishwashing
Tub forming, insulation, pump and heater assembly, then a wet functional test that is expensive to repeat.
- Tub seam and weld integrity sensing
- Water-leak and overflow-path detection
- Pump, heater and sensor assembly verification
- Wet-test cycle-time and repeat-test reduction
Cooking
Enamel is the product. Coverage, film build, cure and chipping decide whether a range ships as first quality or a downgrade.
- Enamel coverage, film build and cure control
- Chip, pinhole and orange-peel detection
- Gas valve, igniter and element assembly verification
- IEC 60335 safety-test evidence capture
Air conditioning
Brazed joints, refrigerant charge and performance test under tightening F-gas rules — a leak here is a compliance event, not just a rework.
- Brazed-joint and coil leak detection
- Charge accuracy and refrigerant loss tracking
- Performance and capacity test triage
- F-gas and energy-regulation evidence trail
What plant, process and quality teams tell us
“Our end-of-line functional testers told us what failed. They never told us which press stroke or foam shot caused it. That link is the whole product.”
“Foam voids are invisible until the energy rating comes back wrong. Predicting density distribution before the cabinet cures is the part I could not buy anywhere else.”
“If it writes to the press, it needs an audit trail a quality auditor accepts. Duromex started there instead of bolting it on.”
Land on one line. Own the loop.
Low-friction entry on a single workflow with clear ROI, then expand line by line, module by module, site by site.
Line
$12,000
per assembly or test line, per month
Forming/assembly-control or defect/leak-test AI for one appliance line. The wedge — land where the pain is measurable.
- One autonomous workflow on one line
- Factory-edge runtime + review console
- Connectors for that line's press, tester or station
- Assurance-grade quality and safety audit log
- Shadow → advisory → graduated autonomy
Most adopted
Factory
$80,000
per factory, per month
Whole-factory autonomy: forming and finish, surface and assembly defect, foaming, assembly and wiring, leak and functional test, robotic handling and the twin.
- All seven agents across the plant
- Line-and-product digital twin
- Factory-wide yield, scrap, rework and energy optimisation
- Unlimited lines within the site
- SSO/RBAC, priority support, quarterly ROI review
Enterprise
Custom
land $600k–$7M ACV
Multi-site, custom product/line/quality models, a managed factory edge fleet and contractual SLAs for OEMs standardising on Duromex.
- Multi-site and multi-region rollout
- Custom product, line and quality models
- Managed factory edge GPU fleet
- On-prem option and strict IP isolation
- Outcome-based components on first-pass yield, warranty and scrap
Annual prepay carries a 15–20% discount. Multi-year agreements ramp with usage. Outcome-based components are available on the highest-value workflows — first-pass yield, warranty, scrap and throughput.
The questions plant directors ask first
Does Duromex replace my MES, press controller or leak tester?
No. Duromex sits at the factory edge alongside them and turns them into a closed loop. We read from and write back to your forming press, enamel line, foaming machine, assembly stations, leak/functional testers and appliance MES through APIs, OPC UA and OT connectors. MES tracks what happened; Duromex acts on it.
How does autonomy start safely?
It starts switched off. Every deployment runs in shadow mode first, measuring the agent against your engineers and testers on a baseline you define. Then advisory mode, where the agent recommends and a human approves. Control authority is granted per line, per workflow, per risk level — and it is revocable.
What happens to our recipes and quality data?
They stay yours and stay isolated. Per-tenant data and model scoping is enforced end to end, an on-prem option exists for sensitive producers, and cross-factory learning is federated so shared models improve without your product recipes or quality data leaving your boundary.
What does a pilot look like?
A paid pilot on one line with one written success metric — typically first-pass yield, functional-test failure rate, leak/warranty rate or scrap. We instrument in shadow mode, measure the baseline, then prove the delta. If we miss the metric, you have not bought a platform.
Why does this need GPUs at the edge?
Because decisions have to happen before the unit advances. Twenty to sixty synchronised camera and sensor streams per line, sub-100 ms station decisions, multimodal leak/thermal/acoustic/pressure fusion and concurrent model serving are not CPU workloads. Training, synthetic rare-fault generation and Omniverse simulation add to that.
Is Duromex a consultancy or an integrator?
Neither. Duromex is an independent product company building original Physical AI software for appliance factories. We are not a reseller, an outsourced development shop or a division of a public company.
Pick the line that hurts most.
We will start there.
A paid pilot, one written success metric, shadow mode first. If we do not beat your baseline, you have not bought a platform.
Duromex is pre-launch. Figures shown are design-partner targets and modelled economics, not audited results. Ask us for the methodology.