You can't manage what you can't see.
Bucket trucks and digger derricks lift transformers, set poles, and swing loads inches from energized conductors.
The winch line is the only thing between the load and the ground — and across a fleet, "visual inspection" is a guessing game.
Which truck got inspected this morning?
Which line is one shift away from retirement?
Where's the paperwork when an investigator asks?
The result:
Too many trucks rolling out untested, too many lines pushed past their limit, and too many incidents that should never have happened.
The state of visual inspection
Inspection Required
OSHA 1910.269, OSHA 1910.268, and ANSI A10.31-2019 all require a competent person to inspect winch lines on aerial equipment — with documentation.
New Responsibilities
ANSI A10.31-2019 (effective June 1, 2020) added new owner, user, and operator responsibilities for digger derrick inspection, training, and recordkeeping.
Avoid Failures
Winch line failures are routinely fatal. Disabling injuries are even more common — and almost always preventable.
Only 1
A single dropped load on a transmission job can put miles of conductor on the ground, trigger an outage, and end a career.
15–30 min
Manual inspection takes 15–30 minutes per truck — and still misses internal damage no human eye can see.
No shop visits. No spreadsheets. No "I'll get to it after lunch."
The only inspection system built for the way aerial crews actually work.
Operators clip Vision² onto the winch line, run the line, and walk away with a certificate. The same AI that has inspected over 200 million feet of utility rope now lives in the toolbox.
360°
Coverage
No blind spots
A multi-camera array wraps the winch line, capturing every strand from every angle in a single pass. No blind spots. No "did I check the back side?"
>99%
Hazard Detection
Before any failure
Cut strands, splices, debris, abrasion, glazing, heat damage — flagged before they become a failure. Two neural networks work together: one assesses abrasion, the other locates defects within fractions of an inch.
Automatic Calendar Notifications
No tracker. No reminder Post-Its.
Operators get pinged when their next inspection is due. No tracker. No reminder Post-Its. No lapses.
Real-time
at 8 mph
At the speed of the pull
No slow-down, no staged inspection. Run the winch at working speed and let Vision² do the looking.
documentation and certificates
Instantly
Inspection certificates auto-generate the moment the scan ends. Annotated imagery, location of every flag, signed and time-stamped — automatically.
Up-to-the-Minute Fleet Dashboards
Whole fleet in one view
Every line, on every truck, ranked by health. See your whole fleet in one view. Know which trucks are field-ready before the foreman asks.
Why this matters now
With Vision², responsible care isn't a memo. It's automatic.
For Operators:
Faster inspections, no paperwork, no second-guessing.
For Foremen:
Real-time confirmation that every truck on the job is field-ready.
For Fleet Managers:
Data-driven rope replacement — retire lines on evidence, not guesswork.
For Safety & Compliance:
Cloud-stored certificates that meet OSHA, ANSI, and insurer expectations the moment an incident occurs.
