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Manufacturing & supply chain simulation Decisions you can defend.
Simulate before you spend.

Decision applications for manufacturers and supply chains, including many Fortune 500 operators. See customer results.

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Simulation, reliability statistics and AI agents for production lines and supply chains.

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A few of the organizations we’ve built for since the early 1990s
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ReliaSim

Our simulation software,
from one machine to the whole network

ReliaSim models production lines, plants and supply chains from your own stop data and checks the model against what the plant actually did. Then you test the change on the model before you try it on the plant.

A machine

How it fails and recovers

Fit failure and repair patterns from your stop history with ReliaStats®.

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A line

Where the output goes

Find the real bottleneck, size buffers and rank which stops are worth fixing.

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A plant

How flow moves through it

Discrete rate simulation for high-speed and bulk flow, the method Andrew Siprelle created in 1990.

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The supply chain

Where to make and ship

Network design, safety stock and tariff scenarios on the same engine.

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Open the free Sandbox How a project runs →

Used for manufacturing simulation, RAM analysis, operational due diligence and AI validation.

In Their Own Words

Named customers.
Specific outcomes.

"We leveraged the model to recommend solutions that saved $21.7M in inventory carrying costs and reduced transit time by 19%."
— Mike Keller, Network Analyst & Engineer, Union Pacific Railroad
"Instead of taking a snapshot, this is more like a video. Your ability to actually see the activity in action while the supply chain is running lets you understand impacts much better."
— Mike Geddis, Director of Engineering, General Mills
"The team went above and beyond the project scope, proactively brainstorming ways to make our project better."
— J. Adam Traina, Director of Operations Research, Symbotic

Customers, the organizations we've built for, and 12 case studies →

The Suite

Tools built for
hard problems

ReliaSim is the main one. Each of the others is built for one kind of problem. Most have a free sandbox, and six run as public MCP servers inside Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor.

ReliaSimLines, plants, downtime data and supply chains GreenfieldFacility location and network design QueueSimQueueing and staffing, free sandbox QSimHealthEmergency department staffing Decoupling SimulatorDecoupling strategies for flaked product lines Adaptive CoachingReal-time operator guidance

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Research & Publications

Published,
peer-reviewed work

Andrew Siprelle created discrete rate simulation in 1990. The team has published at the Winter Simulation Conference since 1995, and customers have written papers of their own about the work.

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About

Who we are

ChiAha grew out of Simulation Dynamics, the firm Andrew Siprelle founded in the early 1990s. Today the team works with consulting partners from Technology Optimization & Management and our Doctors of Reliability, retired reliability engineers and R&D leaders with 32 to 36 years each in manufacturing.

We're based in Maryville, Tennessee.

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Tell us about your problem

A line that won’t hit its number, a network decision, a model that needs a new home. Tell us what you’re up against and a person will get back to you.

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