FLIP digital planning software focuses on resources management: Human capital, Equipments, Production lines, Working rooms...
FLIP intelligence unlocks all the potential of managed resources without overloading them !
FLIP implements the best methodologies and provides most powerful scheduling features on the market !
AI Agent Optimization
The Future of Smart Production Planning
FLIP’s AI Agent Optimization redefines production planning by integrating advanced machine learning to enhance decision-making and resource allocation. This cutting-edge feature enables users to train their own AI models, tailoring them to their specific operational needs. Each department can create a customized AI assistant that aligns with unique workflows, constraints, and priorities.
Key Capabilities:
- Intelligent Optimization – The AI agent analyzes complex variables, including production demands, resource availability, and operational constraints such as training needs and equipment dependencies.
- Dynamic Adaptation – It continuously learns and adapts to changing conditions, providing real-time adjustments and predictive insights that reduce bottlenecks and enhance efficiency.
- Full User Control – Unlike conventional AI solutions, FLIP’s approach gives users the ability to directly train and refine their AI models, ensuring personalized and highly relevant optimizations.
A Market-First Innovation
Currently in advanced testing and set to launch in 2025, FLIP’s AI Agent Optimization will be the first-ever trainable AI model embedded within a capacity management system. By merging human expertise with AI-driven intelligence, FLIP ensures unparalleled flexibility and performance in tackling operational challenges.
🚀 Coming Soon: Empower your planning with AI that learns from you!
Real-Time Visibility for Operational Excellence
As a core component of FLIP’s Operational & Strategical Intelligence Tools (OSIT), FLIP Performance Monitor provides real-time insights into the alignment between planned schedules and actual execution. This functionality enables organizations to track performance continuously, identify deviations, and take proactive measures to optimize efficiency.
Key Capabilities:
- Instant Schedule Monitoring – Detects whether operations are ahead of or behind schedule in real time.
- Delay Identification – Pinpoints specific tasks causing delays, whether due to extended durations or rescheduling.
- Proactive Adjustments – Empowers teams to make informed decisions and optimize workflow execution dynamically.
By ensuring seamless alignment between planning and execution, FLIP Performance Monitor enhances operational agility, minimizes inefficiencies, and drives continuous improvement across all levels of production
🚀 Stay on track. Stay optimized. Stay ahead.
Leave and Shift scheduler
Shift Management – Integrated Workforce Optimization
FLIP’s Shift Management Module seamlessly integrates with Absence Management, creating a comprehensive People Capacities Management system. This powerful combination enables organizations to efficiently manage even the most complex shift schedules while accounting for both planned and unplanned absences, ensuring precise workforce availability
Key Capabilities:
- Real-Time Workforce Visibility – Synchronizes shift and absence data to provide an accurate view of team capacities.
- Optimized Resource Allocation – Enables managers to make informed decisions about staffing, task assignments, and workload distribution.
- Reduced Scheduling Conflicts – Prevents disruptions by automatically adjusting for absences, ensuring smooth operations.
By aligning shift planning with real-time availability, FLIP enhances productivity, minimizes workforce imbalances, and guarantees seamless operational execution, even in the face of staffing challenges.
🚀 Smart Scheduling. Maximum Efficiency. Zero Disruptions
Skills Management
Ensuring the Right Expertise for Every Task
Effective knowledge and skills management is essential to assigning the right people to the right tasks. FLIP integrates required skills as a constraint in its planning engine, ensuring that only qualified personnel are assigned to specific operations.
Key Capabilities:
- Skill-Based Task Allocation – Links required knowledge to tasks, ensuring that workforce assignments comply with skill requirements.
- Seamless Data Integration – FLIP can ingest training and certification data from dedicated Learning Management Systems (LMS) to maintain an up-to-date skills database.
- Dynamic Adaptation – Training matrices evolve continuously, and FLIP accounts for expiring certifications, training updates, and evolving qualifications, preventing scheduling errors.
For large enterprises, managing constantly changing training requirements can be complex—especially when dealing with certifications that expire every few months. FLIP’s intelligent planning algorithms automatically factor in these constraints, ensuring error-free workforce planning and compliance with skill requirements.
🚀 The right people. The right skills. The right time.
Communication Management
Centralized Task-Based Messaging
FLIP’s Communication Management System functions as a task-specific chat, enabling seamless information exchange among operators, supervisors, and managers. It serves as a centralized hub where users can share important messages, warnings, risks, or critical updates, ensuring that all stakeholders stay informed.
Key Capabilities:
- Integrated Task Communication – Associates messages directly with tasks, keeping all relevant discussions in one place.
- Real-Time Event Tracking – Provides visibility into unexpected events, delays, or operational blockers, helping teams react quickly.
- Enhanced Collaboration – Enables planners to share special instructions, while operators can report issues or anomalies, improving overall responsiveness.
By centralizing communications, FLIP ensures that no critical information is lost. Planners gain clarity, and operators have a direct channel to report real-time challenges, making the entire planning and execution process more transparent and efficient.
🚀 Stay connected. Stay informed. Stay in control.
Operations Management Module
The Core of FLIP’s Planning Engine
The Operations Management Module is a fundamental component of FLIP, orchestrating all tasks and processes related to production execution. From resource allocation and batch tracking to workflow coordination, this module ensures seamless operations while respecting capacity constraints and operational rules.
Key Capabilities:
- Capacity-Driven Task Scheduling – Ensures adherence to planning principles, considering task sequences, coactivities, and workforce competencies.
- Integrated Workflow Execution – Aligns production processes with operational constraints, automating complex task dependencies.
- Dynamic Resource Allocation – Optimizes workforce and equipment usage while maintaining compliance with production constraints.
As the foundational module developed during FLIP’s inception, Operations Management remains the most widely used module, delivering exceptional value across all production workflows.
🚀 Structured. Scalable. Smart.
Supply Management
Optimized Production Scheduling
FLIP’s Supply Management Module streamlines production scheduling by orchestrating daily or shift-based line openings and defining the specific products to be manufactured. By leveraging FLIP’s deep understanding of operational constraints, this module ensures that production is both efficient and compliant with workforce and resource requirements.
Key Capabilities:
- Smart Line Scheduling – Dynamically determines which production lines should operate and what products should be manufactured.
- Resource-Driven Planning – Identifies required resources within each team while ensuring adherence to qualification requirements.
- Automated Workforce Assignment – Assigns only personnel with the necessary training and certifications, while managing staff rotations based on predefined configurations.
By balancing production needs with operational constraints, the Supply Management Module optimizes resource allocation and enhances efficiency, ensuring a seamless, compliant, and well-coordinated production process.
🚀 Precision Planning. Maximum Efficiency. Seamless Execution.
Maintenance Management
Bridging Production & Maintenance for Maximum Efficiency
FLIP’s Maintenance Management Module ensures seamless collaboration between production and maintenance teams while preserving their respective autonomy. In industries where machines, equipment, and production lines require regular upkeep, this module provides real-time visibility into production activities, enabling maintenance teams to schedule interventions without disrupting operations.
Key Capabilities:
- Integrated Maintenance Planning – Allows teams to schedule preventive or corrective maintenance while aligning with production priorities.
- Multi-Entity Management – Supports oversight of multiple connected FLIP systems, enabling maintenance teams to manage equipment across several entities (5 to 10 or more) from a single centralized platform.
- Safety & Compliance Control – Maintenance teams can enforce critical tasks when necessary to ensure safety and equipment reliability, preventing costly failures.
By fostering tight synchronization with production, FLIP’s Maintenance Management Module empowers maintenance teams with autonomy, visibility, and control, minimizing downtime while maximizing operational efficiency.
🚀 Smart Maintenance. Zero Disruptions. Maximum Reliability.
Shutdown Management
Optimized Downtime Planning
FLIP’s Shutdown Management Module is a powerful tool designed for centralized management of production line shutdowns, a critical process in industries where downtime directly impacts productivity. Whether for machinery replacement, system upgrades, testing, or maintenance, this module enables strategic long-term shutdown planning without time constraints.
Key Capabilities:
- Advanced Shutdown Scheduling – Supports unlimited long-term planning, allowing industries to prepare for maintenance periods well in advance.
- Optimized Task Management – Helps coordinate project requests during shutdowns, ensuring every task is maximized within the downtime.
- Clear Accountability & Execution – Assigns each request to a responsible manager, ensuring smooth execution and clear ownership.
- Visual & Centralized Overview – Provides a user-friendly interface that consolidates all planned shutdowns and associated projects, giving teams full visibility and control.
By streamlining shutdown planning, FLIP helps industries minimize the impact of downtime, optimize maintenance execution, and ensure every shutdown period is used to its full potential.
🚀 Planned Downtime. Maximum Efficiency. Zero Wasted Time.
Project Management
Precision Planning Across Teams
FLIP’s Project Management Module enables the creation of detailed micro-plans for each project by seamlessly allocating resources across connected FLIP systems. This interconnectivity allows Project Managers (PMs) to plan every step without the need to manually identify individuals or equipment within other teams.
Key Capabilities:
- Effortless Resource Allocation – PMs request resources, and FLIP automatically sends proposals to relevant managers, who can approve or modify them as needed.
- Cross-Team Equipment Management – Equipment requests follow the same approval process, ensuring responsible teams maintain control over allocations.
- Visual Micro-Planning & Critical Path Analysis – Provides a dedicated interface with clear project timelines, offering full visibility into dependencies and key milestones.
- Seamless Integration with Shutdown Management – Enables perfect synchronization between project execution and downtime planning, ensuring smooth coordination.
By automating approvals, streamlining resource allocation, and providing visual clarity, FLIP’s Project Management Module ensures that each team delivers on time while maintaining accountability, driving successful project execution.
🚀 Smart Planning. Optimized Execution. Guaranteed Success.
Thanks to an exclusive fast interface, assign Shifts & Absences to workers on multiples periods at a time. Everyone get daily, weekly, monthly or yearly overview on shifts/absences by teams, supervisors and workers.
Support the system to select the correct profiles to execute a task.
Are the equipments I need available and ready to be used
(clean, aseptic,... )?
Manage multiple statuses and more options for your
equipment. Program recurrence to schedule equipment
maintenance!
Define and set multiple constraints levels between tasks, equipments, processes and Workers.
Assign desire / necessary constraints between people, skills and equipments
Sort all tasks required for each steps of product creation
See and analyze all tasks workload assigned to each employee/worker.
See and analyze all tasks planned to each production area/line.
Check equipment workload and status.
Get an overview of all scheduled batches.
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Resources
Human Resources, Equipment, Working Area (Zone Production Lines)
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Tasks
Name, Duration, Category
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Processes
Name, Equipment, Type of Processus
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HR Capacities is computed based on Shifts, Absences and knowledges if required
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Localisation assignation, Equipment assignation, Knowledges assignation,Number of people required by team
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Task sequence, Tasks duration modifcation, Delay/Interval between tasks
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Product manufacturing is planned in a
single click
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Many visuals available. Zoom in (20 minutes) / Zoom out (months)
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Workers interract on the task status
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Daily planning adaptation
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2025
AI integration
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2024
Maintenance Management, Shutdown Management, Project Management
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2023
Operations Management Module, Supply Management
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December 2021
Flip rolled out new production plants in Italy, France and Belgium
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December 2020
Second industry customer
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November 2020
Agile GO-Live
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June 2020
First industry customer
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January 2020
FLIP framework first release launched.
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June 2019
FLIP beta version
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June 2018
Project genesis