Time and Motion Studies

Automate the time and motion study.

Measure work without stopwatches, spreadsheets, or manual observation. DeepHow's Physical AI identifies cycles and actions from video — running across every operator, line, and shift. The same insight,90% faster.

The Problem

Time and motion studies are time consuming and labor-intensive

Weeks of Manual Effort
Watch weeks of operator work, record cycle times, and hand-classify every action before any data can be analyzed.
Small Sample Sizes
Because the work is so manual, studies cover only a handful of operators, shifts, or runs — rarely the whole operation.
The Waiting Period
Time studies don't happen on-demand; questions arise every day but time studies require scheduling and coordination.
The Solution

DeepHow automates the time study

Automated Cycle Capture

DeepHow AI automatically detects work cycles and operator actions across continuous production video.

Micro-Action Classification

Auto-classifies value-added, incidental, and waste (Muda) time across every cycle.

Performance Insights

Measures cycle times, benchmarks stations, and surfaces bottlenecks as actionable insights.

Core Capability

From manual studies to automatic AI analysis

The same study, captured and classified automatically — so teams spend less time measuring work and more time improving it.

How it's done today

No Digitization

With Time and Motion AI
Real World Use Case

Where teams use DeepHow for time & motion analysis today

Manufacturers use DeepHow wherever cycle times, labor balance, and bottlenecks need to be measured across operators, lines, and shifts.

Common applications include: 

Assembly operations
Packing & machining
Equipment setup & changeovers
Quality inspections
High-mix production
Continuous improvement initiatives

Instead of periodic stopwatch studies on a small sample, DeepHow automatically analyzes work from video, helping teams standardize measurement, uncover bottlenecks, and identify improvement opportunities faster.

Business Impact

Benefits realized with automating time and motion studies

90%
Faster than manual studies
Workforce Efficiency
Free industrial engineers from hours of footage review.
Improved Productivity
Through better line balancing and reduction of non-value added work.
100%
Of cycles captured — not a sample
Analysis captures larger sample sets and can be run more frequently, instead of a one-time snapshot of a single operator.
2x
Return based on labor savings alone
Before counting the gains from faster, broader improvement.

Turn weeks of work into minutes.