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Last updated 6 August 2026

ctrlPlanner is control plan and first article authoring for ISO and AS9100 job shops. You balloon the print, the control plan builds itself, and the tolerance walks back through plating, grinding and turning so every station sees the limits it has to hold rather than the finished part number.

If you are new, read the quick start and then the page on how plans are stored. If you are evaluating, the page on where your data goes is the one written for you.

Getting started

The loop, once, end to end.

• Quick start: your first control planDrop a print, balloon three characteristics, build a routing, and print a control plan. About ten minutes, no account needed.
• Plans are files on your computerThe recents list, the ON DISK badge, saving and reopening a .cplan.zip, and why exactly one plan lives in the browser.

Authoring a plan

Marking up the print and keying the characteristics.

• Ballooning a printGetting a drawing in, the four drawing tools, pages, zoom, balloon size, labels, and ballooning inside the new-plan wizard.
• Characteristics in the Power EditorThe grid, the six kinds of characteristic, typing values and tolerances, GD&T, and working on many rows at once.
• Keyboard referenceEvery shortcut in the Power Editor: navigation, editing, selection and ranges, rows, and saving.
• Operations and the routingBuilding the process, what makes an operation dimensional, effects and buildup, vendors, special processes, and templates.

What the engine computes

The part that is hard to do by hand.

• The tolerance walk-backType the finished-part limits once. Every station upstream gets limits of its own, worked back through plating, grinding and turning.

Output

Sheets for the floor, and the compliance package.

• The control planThe per-operation view, how requirements are rendered, per-operation overrides, and printing a sheet for the floor.
• AS9102 first article reportsForms 1, 2 and 3 to AS9102 Rev C, built from what you already entered, plus the free standalone tool.
• Exports and packetsWhat comes out of a plan: the AS9102 package, the operator packet PDF, printed control plans, and what is not built yet.

Running a shop on it

Settings, rules, and the questions a reviewer asks.

• Settings, the library and Smart FillShop information, the method and frequency library, units and precision, and rules that fill fields for you.
• Your data, and where it goesWhat runs in your browser, what leaves your machine, what happens offline or if a subscription ends, and what an IT reviewer needs to know.
• Using the free tools from an AI agentThe MCP endpoint, what the four tools take and return, and why the schema has no field a part number could go in.