Focus on Analysis Decisions — Not Workflow Complexity

Today’s material analyses demand constant mental bookkeeping of assumptions, dependencies, and downstream effects. MatLytics Guided Workflows reduce cognitive load and rework, enabling experts to work faster, more consistently, and with full transparency.

The Hidden Complexity of Material Analysis Workflows

Material analysis is intellectually demanding work. It relies on deep domain expertise, years of experience, and a large amount of implicit knowledge that is rarely documented explicitly.

Yet the analytical process itself is often fragmented, opaque, and difficult to manage.

A single material analysis typically consists of dozens of interdependent steps: curve transformations, filtering and smoothing, coordinate conversions, parameter extraction, normalization, fitting procedures, and validation checks. Each step depends on assumptions made earlier in the workflow — assumptions that directly influence all downstream results.

Cognitive Load Limits the Use of Core Expertise

Material experts spend a significant portion of their time managing complexity rather than applying expertise.

Typical questions arise during analysis:

  • Where exactly was this parameter defined?
  • What assumption did I make when I smoothed this curve?
  • If I change the reference strain here, which downstream parameters are affected?
  • Why does this result differ from the previous evaluation?

Because assumptions, transformations, and dependencies are not always transparent, experts must constantly reconstruct their own analysis logic. This cognitive overhead reduces focus on interpretation, validation, and decision-making — the areas where expert knowledge creates the most value.

High Risk of Errors Due to Hidden Assumptions

In complex workflows, assumptions are easily forgotten or inconsistently applied:

  • A smoothing window changed early in the workflow alters extracted material parameters downstream.
  • A modified coordinate transformation invalidates fitted model parameters.
  • A filtering decision optimized for one dataset is unintentionally reused for another.

Because these dependencies are often implicit, errors can propagate silently through the analysis — and may only be detected late, or not at all.

Small Changes Cause Large Rework Effort

Material analysis is iterative by nature. Assumptions change:

  • A different strain range is selected.
  • A new fitting model is applied.
  • Boundary conditions are refined after review.

In many tools, changing an upstream step requires manually revisiting and updating every downstream task. This leads to:

  • Significant time loss
  • Reduced reproducibility
  • Hesitation to explore alternative assumptions, even when scientifically justified

Data Availability and Context Are Fragmented

Each analysis step requires specific data views: raw signals, transformed curves, intermediate results, comparison plots, or statistical summaries.

If the right data is not immediately visible in the right context, decisions are made with incomplete information — increasing uncertainty and rework.

Team-Level Consequences

These challenges scale from individual analysts to entire teams:

  • Different experts follow different workflow sequences
  • Assumptions are poorly documented or communicated
  • Results are hard to compare across projects or analysts
  • Reviews and handovers become time-consuming and error-prone

Over time, this leads to inconsistent results, reduced transparency, and avoidable inefficiencies — despite high levels of technical expertise.

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Guided Workflows: Turning Complexity into Clarity

MatLytics addresses these challenges with Guided Workflows — a structured, transparent, and interactive way to perform complex material analyses without losing flexibility or scientific rigor.

A Guided Workflow in MatLytics is composed of all analysis steps required for a specific evaluation: curve transformations, filtering and smoothing operations, parameter extractions, model fittings, and the explicit dependencies between these steps.

Instead of managing this complexity mentally, the workflow makes it visible, traceable, and controllable.

The Expert Focuses on Material Expertise — Not Workflow Management

At each step of the Guided Workflow, MatLytics displays exactly the information required to make the current analysis decision:

  • the relevant curves and signals,
  • intermediate results and reference values,
  • the assumptions and parameters that matter at this stage,
  • and immediate visual feedback on their impact.

The expert no longer needs to remember where a parameter was defined or how a transformation affects downstream results.

Cognitive load is reduced, allowing full focus on interpretation, validation, and scientific judgment — where expert knowledge creates real business value.

Assumptions Are Explicit, Traceable, and Changeable

All assumptions made during the analysis are:

  • explicitly documented within the workflow,
  • linked to the steps they influence,
  • and visible at any time.

The expert can return to any previous analysis step, review or modify assumptions, and instantly see the effects propagated through all downstream steps — without manual rework.

Updated results are automatically prepared for review, making iterative analysis faster, safer, and more transparent.

Built for Iteration, Review, and Collaboration

The current state of an analysis can be saved and shared across the team.

This enables:

  • transparent collaboration across experts,
  • structured reviews following the four-eyes principle,
  • and seamless handovers between team members.

New team members can see exactly what was done, why it was done, and how results were derived, significantly reducing onboarding time and knowledge transfer risks.

Standardization Without Loss of Flexibility

Guided Workflows establish a shared analytical standard across the organization:

  • all experts work with the same validated workflow structure,
  • assumptions and steps are applied consistently,
  • and different analyses become directly comparable.

At the same time, experts retain full control to adapt assumptions, explore alternatives, and refine models — within a controlled and transparent framework.

From Individual Excellence to Scalable Analysis Quality

With Guided Workflows, material analysis becomes:

  • reproducible instead of implicit,
  • reviewable instead of opaque,
  • comparable instead of isolated,
  • and scalable across teams and projects.

MatLytics transforms complex material analysis from a cognitively overloaded individual task into a structured, collaborative, and high-quality analytical process — without compromising scientific depth or expert freedom.

Let Experts Focus on What Matters

Material analysis should center on interpretation, not managing complex analysis steps.

Book a demo to see Guided Workflows in action.

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