A single avoided web break on a fast containerboard machine can pay for a month of the Machine tier. We would rather you started with one machine and one number than with a mill-wide programme and a business case nobody believes.
Live example: Grade change PM4 · 135 gsm kraftliner → 110 gsm testliner, no break, ≤14 min off-spec
Land on one workflow with a measurable baseline. Expand by machine, module and autonomy level. Outcome components available on broke, breaks and energy.
Wet-end, forming and drying control or web inspection for a single machine. For mills validating ROI on the wedge.
The whole loop: all nine agents, the orchestrator and the as-run paper-machine twin across every machine on site.
Multi-site groups standardising on Pulpum, with custom grade, furnish and tolerance models.
Modules are licensed per machine on the Machine tier and bundled on Mill and Enterprise.
| Capability | Machine | Mill | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machines covered | 1 | All on site | All in group |
| Agent modules | 1 of 9 | All 9 | All 9 + custom |
| As-run digital twin | — | Included | Custom models |
| Mill-edge node | Included | Per machine | Fleet managed |
| Guarded DCS writes | Scoped tags | All scoped tags | Group policy |
| Reel genealogy | Included | Included | Included + export API |
| Autonomy levels | L1–L2 | L1–L3 | L1–L4 [ASPIRATIONAL] |
| SSO / SCIM / RBAC | — | SSO | SSO + SCIM + tag RBAC |
| Air-gapped deployment | — | Optional | Included |
| Support | Business hours | 24/7 | 24/7 + named engineer |
| Model review | Annual | Quarterly | Quarterly per machine |
| Indicative price | $16,000/mo | $95,000/mo | $700k–$9M ACV |
A run engine that produces this record on every transition, every shift, on every machine you license.
Mill Orchestrator — Pulled the 110 gsm testliner spec, customer tolerances and the standing energy budget from mill MES; locked the target envelope for the run.
Mill Orchestrator — Simulated 48 candidate transition recipes on the as-run paper-machine twin — forming, press, dryer and calender — and ranked them on off-spec tonnes, break risk and steam.
Pulp-and-Stock — Stepped refiner specific edge load 1.9 → 1.4 Ws/m and pushed freeness toward 412 CSF while consistency held at 3.4%.
Wetend-and-Chemistry — Retention aid trimmed to 214 g/t and sizing to 1.1 kg/t against live charge and turbidity; first-pass retention recovered to 78% inside 90 seconds.
Form-and-Press — Re-cut the slice profile across 78 actuators and set jet-to-wire to 0.994 to hold formation index through the basis-weight ramp.
Form-and-Press — Nip load reduced 620 → 540 kN/m to protect the lighter web; post-press dryness landed at 47.1%.
Dry-and-Coat — Re-phased the steam schedule across 6 dryer groups and rebalanced the hood; reel moisture converged to 7.4% ±0.19 2σ at 6.1% less steam than the standing recipe.
Defect-and-Inspect — 18 line-scan cameras streaming; two edge-crack precursors detected at the drive side and cleared by a 40 kN/m nip trim before either propagated.
Mill Orchestrator — Speed ramp 1,180 → 1,245 m/min exceeded the site autonomy threshold. Held for the machine tender; approved by J. Okonkwo at 04:57:12.
Quality-and-Conformance — Reel R-24188 released: full genealogy written (furnish, chemistry, CD profiles, defect map, operator actions) and checked against grade spec.
The pricing model follows the deployment model rather than fighting it.
One machine, one workflow, one number. The entry point is deliberately small enough to sign without a board paper.
Results are reconciled against the mill's own historian data, not our telemetry. If the number does not move, you do not expand.
Add agents along the machine — inspection, then drying, then profile — as each one clears its own gate.
The second machine deploys faster than the first; the second mill faster than the second machine.
Advisory to supervised to bounded. The site decides the pace; the price does not change with the level.
For broke, break minutes and energy we will price part of the value directly, against an agreed baseline.
Indicative for a 400,000 t/yr containerboard machine. Substitute your own numbers — we will do this with your historian data during the mill review. [ASPIRATIONAL model]
The four numbers we agree up front and report against [ASPIRATIONAL].
Figures are design targets and pilot-scoped results [ASPIRATIONAL]. Every number is reproduced from the mill's own reel genealogy, not our telemetry.
A quick sort.
You have a specific, expensive problem on one machine — usually breaks or dryer energy — and you want a number before a programme.
You have proven the wedge and want stock, chemistry, forming, drying, profile, yield and handling working as one system with the twin.
Multiple mills, a group-level variance problem, and a need for one policy model, one audit format and comparable benchmarks.
A paid 90 to 120 day deployment on one machine with an agreed baseline and a defined exit. Fees credit against year one.
Pulpum writes to production equipment. Every capability is scoped, every write is policy-checked, and every action is written to an append-only audit log the mill owns.
| Standard | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 Type II | Cloud control plane | RUNNING In progress [ASPIRATIONAL] |
| ISO 27001 | Company-wide ISMS | QUEUED Planned [ASPIRATIONAL] |
| IEC 62443 | Mill-edge OT security | RUNNING Design-aligned |
| GDPR | Operator data | SUCCEEDED Compliant |
| ISO 9001 / FSC | Quality + chain of custody records | SUCCEEDED Supported |
Autonomy earns trust one shift at a time. These are design-partner quotes from pilot deployments [ASPIRATIONAL].
"The first thing that convinced the crew wasn't the control — it was the log. You can scroll back and see exactly why it dropped the nip. Nobody argues with a timestamp."
Machine tender · PM4 · Nordkraft Mills
"We had two people who could do a clean 135-to-110 transition. One retired in March. The twin now does the sequencing and the second one supervises it."
Production manager · Aurora Board
"Break prediction was the wedge. Ninety seconds of warning is the difference between a nip trim and four hours of threading."
Process engineer · Ternvik Paper
One policy model, one audit trail, one benchmark across every machine in every mill — with the grade and furnish models kept private to each site.
The questions mill managers and process engineers actually ask in the first meeting.
One paper machine and one agent module — wet-end, forming and drying control or web inspection — with the mill-edge inference node, QCS and DCS connectivity, guarded writes, the full run log and reel genealogy, at $16,000 per machine per month.
Yes. Annual prepayment carries roughly an 18% discount, and multi-year enterprise agreements can be structured with usage ramps.
For the highest-value workflows — broke, web-break minutes and dryer energy — we will structure an outcome component against a baseline agreed from your own historian data.
Paid pilots are scoped at 90 to 120 days on one machine and one workflow [ASPIRATIONAL]. Pilot fees are credited against the first year of a Machine or Mill subscription on conversion.
The mill-edge inference node is included in the subscription. Cameras, mounts and any machine-side wiring are quoted separately or supplied by your integrator.
Land on one workflow, expand by module, by machine, by site and by autonomy level. Expansion is the primary growth path and is priced on the same per-machine and per-mill rates.
Book a mill review. We will look at your break rate, your steam per tonne and your grade-change waste, and tell you which wedge has the shortest payback.
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