SandStone IDM empowers automotive electronics inspection data management, reducing storage costs by 65%

BANGKOK, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As Thailand accelerates its efforts to establish a regional hub for electric vehicle manufacturing, quality management of automotive electronic components is facing new challenges. Under Thailand's policy guidance to promote the localization of the electric vehicle industry, market access is increasingly closely linked to local value creation, placing higher demands on the quality traceability and supply chain integration capabilities of automotive electronic components.

Quality data management has become a core bottleneck in automotive electronics production lines.

In automotive electronics manufacturing, systems such as AOI (Automatic Optical Inspection), MES (Manufacturing Execution System), and YMS (Yield Management System) continuously generate massive amounts of unstructured data, primarily consisting of quality inspection images. According to the requirements of the IATF 16949 quality management system, the retention period for inspection data of safety-critical components needs to cover the entire lifecycle of the vehicle platform (typically 15 years or even longer). Faced with the dual pressures of continuously expanding data volume and increasingly longer compliance retention periods, automotive electronics suppliers are facing increasingly severe challenges in the storage, management, and traceability of inspection data.

SandStone IDM: An integrated quality data management solution for storage, management, and use

Addressing the aforementioned pain points, the SandStone Inspection Data Management System (IDM) provides an integrated solution for manufacturing enterprises. SandStone IDM supports exabyte-scale capacity expansion and trillion-level quality inspection image retrieval in seconds across multiple dimensions. Through AI lossless compression technology, it can save up to 90% of storage space.

From a data perspective, SandStone IDM provides full lifecycle management functions covering data collection, storage, processing, analysis, utilization, and archiving. It is equipped with comprehensive quality management, rapid quality traceability, and flexible visual business dashboards, assisting automotive electronics industry chain enterprises in building a comprehensive inspection data management system and achieving comprehensive breakthroughs in cost reduction, efficiency improvement, and quality enhancement for production line operations.

Practical verification: From storage burden to strategic asset

SandStone IDM has been implemented in a leading automotive parts manufacturing plant in Thailand. The plant mainly produces core powertrain components, including electric drive systems and power supply systems. By deploying SandStone IDM, the plant has built an integrated production quality data management platform, enabling the ingestion, unified storage, and intelligent analysis and processing of massive data. After the platform went online, data retrieval time was shortened from hours to seconds, with efficiency increased by thousands of times, providing strong support for precise quality traceability and process optimization.

With the continuous expansion in the Thai market, SandStone has served multiple manufacturers operating in Thailand, such as Peng Shen Technology, Zhongji InnoLight, Sunwoda, Quanta Computer and Victory Giant Technology, helping automotive supply chain manufacturers to address the dual challenges of efficient management and compliant storage of inspection data. SandStone IDM is becoming a key support for Thai automotive electronics manufacturing enterprises to maintain the lifeline of inspection data.