An automatic storage system, rendered in FlexSim’s RTX mode

What is Autodesk FlexSim?

Easy-to-use 3D discrete event simulation software with high-end capabilities.

  • Drag-and-drop workflows to easily model production, logistics, and supply chain processes.

  • Built-in scenario manager to run experiments, make actionable predictions, and optimize.

  • Pre-packaged with modules to add conveyor systems, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), warehousing systems, healthcare, and more.

What is Autodesk FlexSim?

Easy-to-use 3D discrete event simulation software with high-end capabilities.

  • Drag-and-drop workflows to easily model production, logistics, and supply chain processes.

  • Built-in scenario manager to run experiments, make actionable predictions, and optimize.

  • Pre-packaged with modules to add conveyor systems, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), warehousing systems, healthcare, and more.

An automatic storage system, rendered in FlexSim’s RTX mode

Tell a compelling factory story

Create a data-driven, evidence-based model that combines detailed process steps, production data, and realistic 3D visuals. This compelling factory story turns complex data into a shared understanding—so every stakeholder can see the path forward.

Answer what-if questions and respond to change

Autodesk FlexSim provides a risk-free virtual environment to experiment with different scenarios—accounting for dynamic systems, real-world variability, and complex interdependencies—so you can move forward with confidence and make effective changes.

Get accurate results faster

With drag-and-drop layout, a full library of objects with pre-built logic, and a code-free logic-building environment, FlexSim significantly reduces the time it takes to build accurate simulation models.

Tell a compelling factory story

Create a data-driven, evidence-based model that combines detailed process steps, production data, and realistic 3D visuals. This compelling factory story turns complex data into a shared understanding—so every stakeholder can see the path forward.

Answer what-if questions and respond to change

Autodesk FlexSim provides a risk-free virtual environment to experiment with different scenarios—accounting for dynamic systems, real-world variability, and complex interdependencies—so you can move forward with confidence and make effective changes.

Get accurate results faster

With drag-and-drop layout, a full library of objects with pre-built logic, and a code-free logic-building environment, FlexSim significantly reduces the time it takes to build accurate simulation models.

"It’s not very often you can explore the full range of variability that can occur in manufacturing processes. One of the things I was impressed by in FlexSim was its ability to model that variability, which allows us to visualize the process—as opposed to looking at numbers on a spreadsheet."

— Lance Kelly, President of Belts & Chain, Timken
Image courtesy of The Timken Company.

"Autodesk is integral to a lot of projects that we do. We have used FlexSim, which is a discrete event simulation software, to run those what-if scenarios."

— Niranjan Kulkarni, Senior Director for Consulting Services, CRB

"The offsite production here will save 30,000 man-hours, and 30,000 hours equates to $2.5 million in labor alone—let alone the savings in the schedule."

— Jim Majernik, Senior Project Manager, Easley & Rivers

"The FlexSim model allowed us to do optimization runs where we could zero in on how many people we needed on each level and how big a pick wave we can run."

— John Friedl, Senior Vice President of Automation and Innovation, ThredUp

FlexSim learning resources

  • E-LEARNING

    FlexSim learning resources

    Explore the free, on-demand FlexSim courses and learning resources on the Autodesk Learning platform.

  • DOCUMENTATION

    FlexSim documentation

    View the full documentation and reference for FlexSim, including tutorials, release notes, and more.

  • Q&A

    FlexSim forum

    Visit the community-led knowledge base and support forum, with a large catalog of simulation knowledge.

Questions? We have answers.

Autodesk FlexSim is used to model production, logistics, and supply chain processes—then visualize, analyze, and optimize them. Typical users could be reducing decision risk before committing to a factory change, maximizing asset utilization to remove bottlenecks, eliminating in-process waste, or planning capacity to increase throughput.

FlexSim users are typically focused on process improvement and often work in an industrial engineering or manufacturing engineering role. Anyone who wants to better understand or improve production, logistics, and people movement processes can benefit from FlexSim. These users include project managers, analysts, quality assurance, operations, health systems engineers, Lean/Six Sigma Black Belts, and more.

FlexSim has recently added features to enable interoperability between FlexSim and AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit.