Visual input
See how visual input becomes a procedure
The most common question about SOPCam is a fair one: what actually happens between someone filming a job and a worker following a checklist? This page walks that path on pre-built synthetic material, and says plainly which parts of it the product supports today.
Synthetic visual source
In the product these would be still frames sampled from an uploaded video of the task, plus the transcribed narration. Here they are drawings and quoted text authored for this demo.
Process frame 1 of 4
Guard door and interlock at the front of the press, closed, with the isolation switch visible.
Process frame 2 of 4
Control panel showing the mode selector and the two-hand start controls.
Process frame 3 of 4
Lubrication points and the sight glass on the side of the machine.
Narration excerpt
"Before anything, check the guard is seated — if the interlock light isn't steady, stop and call maintenance. Then oil level, then dry cycle, then you can load."
Interpreted observations
What the source material shows, before anyone decides what the procedure should say. Observations are not instructions.
- The operator checks the guard interlock before touching the controls.
- A dry cycle is run with no material loaded before the first real part.
- Lubrication is checked by sight glass, not by a gauge reading.
- The narration mentions calling maintenance but does not say who or how.
Ordered procedural steps
The observations become a draft with an order, and — just as importantly — a stated list of what could not be determined from the source.
Press line B — start-of-shift start-up and safety check
Draft v0.1 — not approved.
- Confirm the area around the press is clear and the previous shift's work is removed.
- Check the guard door is closed and seated, and the interlock indicator is steady.
- Check the lubrication sight glass is within the marked band.
- Set the mode selector to the setting used for normal production.
- Run one dry cycle with no material loaded and watch for unusual noise or movement.
- Load the first part and produce a first-off piece for checking.
What the draft could not determine
- The correct mode-selector setting was not stated clearly in the narration — a supervisor must specify it.
- The narration says "call maintenance" but names no escalation route; this must be filled in.
- Whether the first-off piece is checked by the operator or by quality is not shown.
Manager review
A named person corrects the draft, and each correction carries the reason it was asked for. This is the step that turns a plausible document into a procedure somebody is willing to sign.
Name the mode-selector setting explicitly rather than "normal production".
Why: "Normal" is exactly the word a new operator will interpret differently. The setting has a label on the panel; use it.
Add the escalation route by role, not by name.
Why: People change roles. A procedure that names a person goes stale the week someone moves.
Split the first-off check into its own step owned by quality.
Why: The operator producing the piece should not be the only person confirming it is good.
Move the interlock warning above the steps rather than beneath them.
Why: The one thing that must never happen should not be read last.
The published procedure
Approved by a person, released as a fixed version, and reduced to something a worker can follow one-handed mid-shift.
Press line B — start-of-shift start-up and safety check — v1.0
Audience: Press operators and production supervisors, Plant 1 and Plant 2.
- Confirm the area around the press is clear and the previous shift's work is removed.
- Check the guard door is closed and seated, and the interlock indicator is steady green. If it is not steady, stop and escalate to the shift maintenance technician.
- Check the lubrication sight glass is within the marked band; top up with the approved lubricant if it is below.
- Set the mode selector to PRODUCTION (the labelled detent, not AUTO).
- Run one dry cycle with no material loaded and listen for unusual noise or movement.
- Load the first part and produce a first-off piece.
- Hand the first-off piece to the quality checker before continuing the run.
Worker checklist
What the operator opens on a phone.
- Area clear and previous shift's work removed
- Guard closed, interlock indicator steady green
- Lubrication within the marked band
- Mode selector on PRODUCTION
- Dry cycle run, nothing unusual heard
- First-off piece handed to quality
What the product supports today, and what it does not
The walkthrough above is a demonstration. This is the boundary between it and the real product, stated without hedging.
Supported today
Real capability in the product, not in this demo.
- A short video of the task, recorded on an ordinary phone, uploaded as MP4, MOV or WebM.
- Still frames sampled automatically from that video, at points chosen to represent the work.
- The spoken narration transcribed into text.
- Those frames and that transcript read together to produce a first-draft procedure.
- A human reviewer correcting the draft, approving it, and publishing a fixed version.
Not supported today
Said plainly rather than left to be assumed.
- Uploading a standalone screenshot or photograph as the source. The upload path accepts video, not images.
- Pointing the product at a screen recording tool, a document, or a link and having it watch on your behalf.
- Anything at all on this page: this is a static demonstration and has no upload, no camera and no model call.
Walk it yourself
The sandbox takes the same path across eight fictional operations, with the approval gate you can try to skip and cannot.