Winner · Caterpillar Track
CAT Time Machine
A time machine for your jobsite.
UIUC Product Hackathon · Hack to the Future · Team of 4
Replay any recorded day on a mining site in a 3D spatial simulation, ask “why was production down?” in plain English, and pull up the full context of the incident. Built for Caterpillar's challenge to give machines and jobsites a persistent memory.
- Scoped the product around protest and strike roadblocks that halt mine transport routes, a scenario that has cut major mine output to 30% of capacity.
- Built a 3D replay of past site operations paired with an AI assistant that retrieves the affected trucks, weather and production data behind a disruption.
- Exposed incident memory to external AI tools through an MCP connector so the next shift can reuse lessons from past disruptions.
- AI Agents
- MCP
- 3D Simulation
- Data Viz

