ctrlPlanner
Control plans for job shops

Balloon. Tolerance.
The control plan writes itself.

Set your operations once. Every work center knows what to hold.

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ctrlPlanner showing the anodize operation of a control plan: the ballooned drawing on the left, and on the right the routing across five operations with each characteristic's limits for that station, whether the coating grows or shrinks it, the inspection method, class and frequency. The limits the engine calculated are in blue.
Who built this

Built by a quality engineer, not a software company.

“Four years of writing control plans in a small aerospace shop: ballooning in a PDF editor, working out grind and plate stock by hand, retyping it all into AS9102 forms. This is the tool I wanted all along.”

Now the tedious part

The steps aren’t hard. There’s just a lot of them.

Takes most of a day, and almost none of it is engineering.

Done by handFive tools
  • Open the print in a PDF editor
  • Balloon every dimension by hand
  • Renumber the ones you missed
  • Type each dimension into a spreadsheet
  • Type the tolerance beside it
  • Look up the plating spec
  • Work out the pre-plate limits
  • Work out the grind stock
  • Check the thread allowance against H28
  • Paste it into a control plan template
  • Set a method and a frequency on every row
  • Write the limits onto each operation sheet
  • Save a copy for the floor
  • Open the AS9102 template
  • Retype the characteristics into Form 3
  • Fill Form 1 from the part header
  • Fill Form 2 off the material certs
  • Find the transposed digit in row 34
  • The print revs. Start again.

None of it is difficult. All of it is on the clock.

Done in ctrlPlannerOne tool
  1. 1
    Balloonon the drawing, once
  2. 2
    Tolerancetyped once, off the print
  3. 3
    Operationswhat each one adds or removes
  4. 4
    Exportmulti-op prints, control plans, & AS9102

Set it up once. Every document is ready when you are.

Walking it back

The tolerance walks back for you.

Set each operation once: what it adds or removes, one side or both. Every dimension then walks back up the process on its own.

On the print
.2510 / .2540

what the drawing says

Before anodize
.2520 / .2541

what the machinist has to hold

The operation
Anodize shrinks it .0001–.001

both sides, on the dimension

A revision reruns the whole process

Change one limit and every upstream station updates. No stale copies floating around.

Threads, plating and grinding, handled

A coat shifts pitch diameter four times its per-side thickness on a 60° thread. Anodize builds up half.

Your data

Nothing leaves the machine.

ctrlPlanner lives in your browser and saves files directly to your drive. There is no server holding your customers' data.

Doesn't widen your CMMC boundary

No outside service touches your CUI. Everything stays inside the boundary you already assess.

Technical data stays put

Export-controlled drawings never leave, because there is nowhere to send them.

Nothing for IT to approve

No security questionnaire, no vendor onboarding, no data-handling review.

ctrlPlanner does not make your shop compliant, it just stays out of the way.

Transparent pricing

What you see is what you get.

Monthly
$249/mo per shop

Billed every month. Cancel any time.

Best valueAnnually
$199/mo per shop

$2,388 a year · over two months free

One invoice a year. Cancel any time.

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Your plans are your files. Every record is a .cplan.zip on your drive. Stop paying and ctrlPlanner goes read-only, it never locks you out of what you own.

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