Platform
One operating system for production planning.
Design your line, simulate forward with DES, inject chaos events, trace ripples, and close the loop with shop-floor actuals — all in one platform.
Model the real factory
Lines, routings, calendars, alternates — your shop floor, digitally twinned.
Simulate forward with DES
Event-driven engine captures queues, blocking, and variability.
Inject discrete events
Breakdowns, material delays, demand surges — measure commitment impact.
Close the loop with actuals
Shop-floor timings calibrate your model and trigger automatic replan.
Six modules. One closed loop.
Factory & Line Design
Top-down layouts, drag-and-drop stations, primary/secondary/bypass routes. Per-station cycle times, distributions, MTBF/MTTR, resource pools.
Production Planning
Order and batch entry with ATP/CTP feasibility, calendar-aware ideal/ASAP/Start-now options, lot splitting, campaign windows, and material readiness gates.
DES Scheduling Engine
ManPy-inspired event engine: Source → Machines → Queues → Exit. Captures waiting, blocking, starvation that Gantt tools miss.
Discrete Event Chaos Testing
Inject breakdowns, material delays, worker absence, rework, demand surges. Test it in software before the shop floor finds out.
Ripple Observability
Trace a delay from source through every downstream stage. Per-commitment severity. Stage-to-stage what-if queries.
Actuals → Calibration → Replan
Capture shop-floor timings, recalibrate recipes, and auto-replan remaining steps from actual finish time.
Platform advantages that apply everywhere.
The same DES core powers critical manufacturing rigor, pharma batch planning, aerospace programs, and CNC job shops.
DES engine, not static Gantt
Event-driven simulation captures queues, blocking, and starvation that spreadsheets and ERP schedulers miss — across discrete, process, and hybrid lines.
Ripple observability
Trace any delay from source station through every downstream stage. Per-commitment severity with station-level attribution.
Critical mfg traceability
Simulation history, commitment diff, and deterministic replay — the evidence layer regulated and high-stakes environments require.
Chaos testing before the floor
Inject breakdowns, material delays, demand surges, and rework. Measure impact in software before the shop floor or QA finds out.
Closed-loop calibration
Shop-floor actuals recalibrate recipes and trigger automatic replan — keeping your digital twin aligned with reality.
Alternate-route resilience
When primary equipment is down, DES finds the next compliant path — qualified alternates for aerospace, pharma, and discrete alike.
Calendar-aware planning
Shifts, holidays, maintenance windows, and equipment calendars baked into every feasibility check and simulation run.
Earlier-than-human alerts
Amber and red warnings fire days before a slip becomes a missed commitment — orders, batches, programs, and release windows.
Spreadsheets pretend. DES proves.
RippleFlo simulates your factory as a sequence of events — jobs arriving, machines starting, breakdowns happening, repairs finishing. It captures the queueing, blocking, and starvation that static Gantt tools can’t see.
| Spreadsheet / static Gantt | RippleFlo DES |
|---|---|
| Assumes fixed durations | Models queues & contention |
| One delay = manual fix | Ripples propagate automatically |
| Ignores shifts and holidays | Factory calendar aware |
| Hard to compare scenarios | Baseline vs scenario side-by-side |
| No audit trail | Simulation history archive |
Don’t discover the ripple on the floor. Inject it in software first.
From source station to customer commitment in one trace.
See exactly how a delay propagates. Severity scoring (on track / at risk / late / critical) per commitment. Attribution per station. Open the War Room for crisis-level coordination with pre-commit blast preview.
Plan once. Calibrate continuously.
600 minutes on CNC1. Three lots, three different stories.
Naive schedulers say “later = worse.” RippleFlo measures slip per order against its own plan — so Lot 2/6 finishes 4 hours late while Lot 3/6 only slips 40 minutes because its downstream path took an alternate route.
- Per-commitment slip with attribution (% CNC1 vs downstream queue).
- Stage-to-stage trace: if CNC1 slips, when does Final QC move?
- Pre-commit blast preview — before you publish, see who gets hit.
Engineered for critical manufacturing — where every slip has stakes.
Pharma, aerospace, medical devices, defense, process, and regulated discrete. Environments where every minute is traceable, every change is reviewed, and every customer commitment is contractual. RippleFlo brings the rigor.
Audit-grade traceability
Every schedule decision, simulation run, and replan is archived. Export the pegging tree from commitment back to root cause for internal review or regulator.
Validate before you commit
Pre-commit blast preview shows exactly which lots, batches, and customer promises shift — before a single change touches the floor.
Release & commitment risk scoring
Risk analytics flag equipment conflicts, calendar collisions, and CAPA-style actions before they become deviations — for batches, orders, and programs.
Deterministic replay
Re-run any historical scenario with identical inputs. Reproduce, review, and defend every scheduling decision you ever made.
Earlier-than-human warning
Amber and red alerts fire days before a slip becomes a missed commitment — giving QA, planning, and customer success room to act.
Alternate-route resilience
When a qualified machine goes down, DES finds the next compliant route automatically — respecting validated equipment trains.
Defensible schedules. Reviewable decisions. Repeatable outcomes.
Simulation History preserves every run with station metrics, event traces, and CSV exports. Commitment Diff captures what changed and why. Recipe calibration links shop-floor reality back to your planning model — closing the loop your quality team already expects.
- Pegging tree from customer order → lot → batch → operation
- Full simulation archive with replay and export
- Commitment Diff for every schedule publication
- Role-aware change preview before publishing