Having to use this station in production would be near hell, almost as bad as someone watching over your shoulder.
Wonder how hard it is to do the opposite of what you show, make a bad solder joint and have the system think its good. Probably not impossible.
Honestly I'm not sure how often the validation would be used in production, the locking down of cartridge types etc is widely used though. I think it can count solder joints too so I guess they can trace usage. There is possibly an add-on module for further connectivity in the pipeline too. Talking with our UK manager, they may visit a site and use the system to identify potential flaws in the hand assembly process. Apparently it did find a failure point on a product that would do xx years of service and fail on one particular higher thermal mass joint.
You can definitely trick the system, but I didn't find you could trick the system and leave a good solder joint. You can however have a good solder joint that the system has marked as failed if the set-up is not quite right. I found for smaller stuff mass soldering, the system simply doesn't notice the solder joint and can't differentiate between it and background noise. Probably akin to a 4x4 riding over a stone.
For £100 more over the MX-5200, it's not that badly priced and could be used for occasional training and maybe for setting up a production set-up. I was surprised how 'poor' my soldering was despite having IPC training.