Automate time studies

Industrial engineers spend 4-14 hours every week manually coding time studies: recording GoPro videos, watching them frame-by-frame, writing MODAPTS codes, and hunting for missing minutes in routings. Material Model automates this process, turning video into step-level analysis in minutes instead of hours. You get MODAPTS breakdowns, Work Combination Tables, and Gantt charts automatically, revealing hidden capacity, standard-work drift, and bottlenecks with video evidence. We are also always working on new analysis types to build on top of our video agent, if you have specific use case please let us know and we will prioritize it.

Material Model is built for industrial engineers, manufacturing engineers, continuous improvement teams, and plant managers in high-mix manufacturing. Our customers include automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers, electronics assembly, medical device manufacturers, and fabrication shops. Whether you are running NPI builds, rebalancing lines, optimizing robot cells, or documenting standard work, Material Model helps you get accurate data faster.

A 60-second GoPro clip can take an hour to code by hand. Industrial engineers at Tesla, GM, and other manufacturers told us they spend 4-14 hours weekly just on video annotation: watching footage frame-by-frame, identifying motions, writing MODAPTS codes, and calculating TMUs. Manual coding runs roughly 10× real-time, meaning you spend 10 hours coding 1 hour of video. Material Model automates this, giving you the same analysis in minutes.

MODAPTS (Modular Arrangement of Predetermined Time Standards) provides motion-level detail for single-operator tasks, breaking down every movement with TMU calculations. SWCT (Standard Work Combination Table) analyzes multi-station workflows, showing parallel operations across operators and equipment with visual Gantt charts. Choose MODAPTS for detailed motion analysis or SWCT for balancing multi-station workflows.

Material Model works with any video source: GoPros, smartphones, overhead cameras, security cameras, or even screen recordings. No hardware installation required. Simply upload your existing footage and get analysis within minutes. The AI adapts to different angles, lighting conditions, and camera types without pre-training.

Material Model is powered by Vision-Language Models (VLMs), enabling unique capabilities like natural language prompting: you can guide the AI with plain English instructions. Unlike traditional systems, Material Model is 100% software-based with no hardware setup required. You can use footage from GoPros, smartphones, or any camera, enabling rapid deployment without installing fixed camera systems.

Create a free account at Material Mode, no credit card required. Every new account gets 600 free credits (enough to analyze 10 minutes of video). Upload your first video and get MODAPTS or SWCT analysis within minutes. Need help? Book a demo with our team to see Material Model in action on your videos.

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No. We have Zero Data Retention agreements with all AI providers (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic). Your data is deleted instantly after processing and never used for model training.

Material Model uses a credit-based system: 1 credit = 1 second of video analysis. Every new account gets 600 free credits (10 minutes of video) to start, with no credit card required. After that, you can subscribe to monthly plans or purchase credits as needed. You can cancel anytime, and unused top-up credits never expire.