Over 20 major paper manufacturers run ProcessMiner today. This is our original vertical: every model, every outcome metric, and every deployment method reflects decades of learning and optimizing paper manufacturing.
Trusted on the floor at leading manufacturers
What a paper machine is up against
Every mill knows these numbers. The question is whether the process finds the problem, or the problem finds the process.
Wet-strength chemistry is expensive, and overdosing is the operator's safe default because the penalty for underdosing is immediate. The platform removes that trade-off with precise, quality-linked dosing, cutting cost and chemical discharge together.
A mill running a wide range of product grades faces quality variation at every transition. Built-in grade logic switches limits and models automatically, so the picture never resets to zero.
Lab results can lag production by 45 to 60 minutes, so a roll is often already underway before operators know the last one drifted. The platform predicts quality trends during the run, closing the gap between production and feedback.
What the platform delivers on a paper machine
Grade-specific models predict quality every 30 seconds, so the team sees where basis weight, strength, or moisture is heading well before the lab can report it.
Centerlining compares live production against your machine's best historical runs and tells operators exactly how much to adjust specific controls, keeping key variables on target straight through grade transitions.
Live vs. golden run
When a quality prediction crosses a grade limit, the platform narrows 2,000 to 4,000 machine tags down to the 10–15 most likely causes, ranked by influence. Engineers start from a shortlist, not a historian dump.
Root cause, ranked
Land and expand: a client story
"One of our clients, a leading pulp & paper mill, started with one machine in open-loop advisory mode. As operator confidence built and results compounded, they expanded. Roughly two years later, about 20 machines run in autonomous control."
– ProcessMiner Team
Figures reflect actual ProcessMiner deployments in pulp and paper. Results vary by facility, process, and data quality; past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
Why ProcessMiner in pulp & paper
Mills operate semi-independently. We work with mill-level decision-makers, not just corporate IT, so a deployment doesn't wait on an enterprise program.
Connects to your existing AVEVA PI or OSI PI historian in about 30 minutes. Nothing about your DCS or data pipeline has to change.
The platform adapts to how your operators work. Recommendations arrive as specific, quantified adjustments they can accept, adjust, or override.
As experienced operators retire, their process intuitions live on in the models and in PM AI Agent, available to every shift instead of leaving with them.
Talk to people who've done this before
We'll walk through how the platform applies to your machines, your grades, and your historian, then decide together whether a pilot makes sense.
Historian connected in ~30 minutes. Live dashboard in hours. Full deployment in under two weeks.
Get in touch
Whether it's our platform, your process, or a free in-depth process data analysis and pilot you'd like to see in action, let us know.