Work Instructions for the Floor, Not the Browser
Most documentation tools record a screen. Yours has to record a person at a machine. SOPX turns a phone recording of the real job into a visual work instruction, with a trimmed clip and a written step on every action.
- 1 Film the task on a phone
- 2 AI writes the steps
- 3 Publish to the station by QR
What is work instruction software?
Work instruction software creates, publishes, and revises the step-by-step instructions that tell an operator how to perform one specific task at one specific station. Unlike general document management, the output is built to be followed during the work: visual steps, one action each, revision control, and delivery to the point of use by screen, tablet, or QR code.
What separates the products is what they can capture. Screen-capture tools build instructions by recording browser clicks, which cannot help with a changeover or a machine setup. Anything aimed at physical work has to start from video of a person doing the job.
SOPX starts there. Film the task on a phone, AI returns a structured instruction with a trimmed clip and a written description on every step, and you publish to the floor in under 10 minutes. MES and ERP integrations are scoped on request rather than available out of the box, and it will not produce CAD-drawn exploded views.
The Problem
One revision, every station reprinted by hand
The real cost of paper work instructions is not printing, it is revisions. Change one step and somebody walks the floor swapping the sheet at every station, and misses one.
The authoring tool is dying
Instructions built in Publisher, or in a Word version old enough that the file will not open cleanly anymore, are trapped in software that is going away. The content is fine. The format is the problem.
Writing one takes an engineer half a day
Someone goes to the line, photographs the task, watches it, types what they saw into a document, then pastes the photos in. It is slow enough that most of the backlog never gets written at all.
Nobody on the line reads a document
On a station that cycles in a minute, an operator will not page through a PDF. The instruction has to be a glance, not a document, and it has to be in a language they actually read.
How SOPX Helps
video to published instruction
Film it once, publish the same day
Record the operator doing the job on any phone. The AI extracts each step with its own trimmed clip, a title, and a written description of the action, so the draft is a real instruction rather than a blank page.
sheets to reprint
One revision, every station updated
Edit the step, publish a new version, and every QR code and link on the floor now opens the current revision. Previous versions stay in history, and version restore brings one back if you need it.
languages
Readable by the whole floor
AI translates a finished instruction into 50+ languages, so a mixed-language line reads the same procedure in the language each person actually works in.
How It Works
Record the job as it is really done
Film the operator performing the task on a phone, or import the PDF and Word instructions you already have. Both routes end in the same structured, editable instruction.
AI drafts the steps, you correct them
The AI splits the recording into steps, trims a clip to each one, and writes the description. You edit wording, reorder steps, and annotate frames with arrows and callouts to point at the exact part.
Publish to the station
Send an approved instruction to the floor by link or QR code, with no account needed to view it. Full screen mode shows one step at a time for an operator working at the machine.
How work instruction tools differ
The three approaches teams actually choose between when the work is physical.
| Printed sheets and Word | Screen capture tools | SOPX | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Captures work at a machine | Yes, by hand | No, browser only | Yes, from phone video |
| Time to write one instruction | Hours | Minutes, if on screen | Under 10 minutes |
| Revising every station | Reprint and walk the floor | Reshare the link | Publish once, QR codes follow |
| Multilingual floor | Translate and reprint each | Usually English only | AI translation, 50+ languages |
| Proof the operator followed it | Paper signature sheet | None | Run mode forms and sign-offs |
| MES or ERP integration | None | Limited | Scoped on request |
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Learn more →Automotive
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Learn more →Electronics & PCB
Electronics and PCB assembly teams run hundreds of build, inspection, and test procedures in mismatched formats. Import existing PDFs or film the line on a phone, AI turns each one into a structured work instruction, annotate the exact component and orientation, and keep one versioned format across every plant.
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Process variation drives quality issues, waste, and errors. Standardize every task with visual SOPs generated from your best methods, accessible at every workstation.
Learn more →Multilingual SOPs
Every operator reads the SOP in the language they speak. AI handles the first translation pass. A side-by-side review editor lets a bilingual reviewer correct each step before publishing, so safety-critical procedures stay accurate.
Learn more →Quality & Compliance
Generate the procedure from a process video. Save a new version every time it changes. Translate it to 50+ languages with a side-by-side review editor. Share it at the workstation by QR code. Export to PDF or Word for an audit binder.
Learn more →Built for These Roles
Production Supervisor / Team Lead
You answer the same questions every shift, and your best operators lose time to it too. Film the job once, let AI draft a step-by-step visual work instruction, and point your team to one link they open right at the workstation.
Learn more →Plant / Site Manager
Quality slips when every operator runs the process their own way. Film a machine setup once, let AI draft a step-by-step work instruction in minutes, and publish it so the line runs the same on every shift.
Learn more →Continuous Improvement / Lean Manager
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