Partners

Autonomy arrives through the people the mill already trusts.

No mill lets a new vendor near a paper machine on the strength of a demo. We work through automation vendors, engineering firms and integrators who already hold the relationship — and we stay in our lane above the control layer.

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Vendor-neutralAbove the control layerCo-deployed

run_8f21c4 · agent graph · PM4 10 nodes · 1 approval gate
01 · orchestrator ingest.grade_target ✓ SUCCEEDED 02 · orchestrator twin.simulate ✓ SUCCEEDED 03 · pulp_stock stock.refine ✓ SUCCEEDED 04 · wetend_chem wetend.dose ✓ SUCCEEDED 05 · form_press form.headbox ✓ SUCCEEDED 06 · form_press press.nip ✓ SUCCEEDED 07 · dry_coat dry.steam ✓ SUCCEEDED 08 · defect_inspect inspect.web ✓ SUCCEEDED 09 · orchestrator approve.human ◆ APPROVAL 10 · quality_conf reel.qualify ✓ SUCCEEDED

Live example: Grade change PM4 · 135 gsm kraftliner → 110 gsm testliner, no break, ≤14 min off-spec

Programme

Four kinds of partner

Each with a distinct commercial and technical relationship.

01

Automation vendors

QCS and DCS suppliers whose systems Pulpum reads and writes through. We complement the installed base rather than displacing it, and we certify against each platform.

02

Engineering and EPC firms

Firms running rebuilds, grade-portfolio expansions and efficiency programmes, who bring Pulpum in as the autonomy layer of a wider project.

03

Systems integrators

Regional OT integrators who own the network, the tag database and the commissioning. They deliver the mill-edge install and first-line support.

04

Robotics and handling

Winder, wrapping, palletising and AGV suppliers whose equipment the robot-and-handling agent coordinates through Isaac-based planning.

05

Compute and infrastructure

Accelerated-computing and edge-hardware partners supplying the Jetson-class mill nodes and the training and simulation capacity behind them.

06

Standards and testing

Laboratories and standards bodies where automated conformance mapping to ISO, TAPPI and FEFCO methods has to be validated rather than asserted.

Ecosystem the platform operates within

Nordkraft Mills Aurora Board Ternvik Paper Cascadia Tissue Valle Packaging Hokuriku Seishi

Design-partner mills and named references [ASPIRATIONAL — pre-launch].

Commercial

How the partnership works

Stated up front so nobody negotiates a surprise later. [ASPIRATIONAL — programme in formation]

How the partnership works
Partner typePulpum providesPartner providesModel
Automation vendorSupervisory agents and auditControl layer and certificationCo-sell
Engineering / EPCPlatform and deployment supportProject scope and mill accessReferral fee
Systems integratorTraining and certificationInstall and first-line supportReseller margin
Robotics supplierPlanning and coordination agentCell hardware and safetyJoint solution
Compute partnerWorkload and reference designEdge and training hardwareTechnology
Standards bodyGenealogy and method mappingMethod validationCollaboration
Run timeline

What a partner-delivered run looks like

The same run engine, whether Pulpum or a certified integrator commissioned the site.

run_8f21c4 PM4 · 6.8 m trim · 1,180 m/min SUCCEEDED
  1. 01 ingest.grade_target SUCCEEDED 0.8 s

    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.

  2. 02 twin.simulate SUCCEEDED 34 s

    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.

  3. 03 stock.refine SUCCEEDED 2 m 10 s

    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%.

  4. 04 wetend.dose SUCCEEDED 1 m 26 s

    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.

  5. 05 form.headbox SUCCEEDED 1 m 05 s

    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.

  6. 06 press.nip SUCCEEDED 48 s

    Form-and-Press — Nip load reduced 620 → 540 kN/m to protect the lighter web; post-press dryness landed at 47.1%.

  7. 07 dry.steam SUCCEEDED 3 m 18 s

    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.

  8. 08 inspect.web SUCCEEDED continuous

    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.

  9. 09 approve.human APPROVAL 52 s

    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.

  10. 10 reel.qualify SUCCEEDED 1 m 31 s

    Quality-and-Conformance — Reel R-24188 released: full genealogy written (furnish, chemistry, CD profiles, defect map, operator actions) and checked against grade spec.

Onboarding

Becoming a certified partner

Roughly eight weeks from first conversation to a co-delivered pilot.

  1. Fit review

    Which mills, which machines, which control platforms and where your existing scope stops.

  2. Technical enablement

    Two weeks on the architecture, connectors, policy engine and audit model, ending in a sandbox deployment.

  3. Certification

    A supervised shadow-mode deployment on a real machine, reviewed jointly before any write is enabled.

  1. Commercial agreement

    Margin or referral terms, support responsibilities and escalation paths, in writing.

  2. Co-delivered pilot

    One machine, one mill, joint delivery with a signed baseline reconciliation at the end.

  3. Scale

    Additional machines and mills delivered by the partner, with Pulpum in second-line support.

Accelerated computing

Physical AI, at the machine

Paper moves at 1,200 metres a minute. Perception has to be local, deterministic and fast, so Pulpum runs GPU inference at the mill edge and keeps training, simulation and optimisation in the cloud or on-prem.

Jetson Orin · DeepStream · Holoscan · TensorRT

Edge perception

8–24 synchronised line-scan cameras per machine. Sub-100 ms defect classification, sub-250 ms break-risk updates. [ASPIRATIONAL design targets]

Triton · NIM

Model serving

Vision, time-series prognostics, grade embeddings and process reasoning behind one orchestrator, with deterministic rollback by model version.

DGX / HGX · NeMo

Training

Defect vision, break precursors, wet-end response and drying models trained on reel genealogy, QCS histories and operator corrections.

Omniverse · OVX

Digital twin

GPU-accelerated CFD, drying and web-dynamics simulation of the as-run machine — 10–100 candidate recipes evaluated per grade change.

Omniverse Replicator · Cosmos

Synthetic data

Rare break, contamination, wrinkle and formation-upset variants generated and always validated against real mill events before promotion.

cuOpt

Optimisation

Grade-change sequencing, dryer energy allocation, machine-speed balancing and maintenance windows under production and energy constraints.

Fit

Who this works for

The partners who succeed with us share a few traits.

Strong partner signals

  • Existing trusted relationships with mill leadership
  • OT network and control-system competence in house
  • Willingness to run shadow mode for weeks, not days
  • Comfort with a supervisory layer they do not own outright
  • Regional coverage in packaging, tissue or specialty grades
  • Appetite for outcome-linked commercial terms
Integrations

It speaks mill, not cloud

Pulpum reads and writes through the systems already on the floor. No rip-and-replace, no parallel historian, no new HMI to learn.

QCS

Valmet IQ, ABB 800xA QCS, Honeywell Experion MX

Profiles, scans, lab results

DCS

ABB 800xA, Valmet DNA, Honeywell Experion, Siemens PCS 7

Setpoint reads and guarded writes

Web inspection

WIS/WMS line-scan, IR and transmission cameras

Frames, defect maps, break replays

Mill MES

SAP PP/QM, ABB cpmPlus, custom historians

Orders, grades, reel genealogy

Historian

OSIsoft PI, Aspen IP.21, InfluxDB

Time-series backfill and replay

Robotics

NVIDIA Isaac, winder and wrapper PLCs

Reel, roll and clamp-truck motion

Identity

Azure AD, Okta, on-prem LDAP

SSO, RBAC, named approvers

Edge

NVIDIA Jetson Orin, IGX, on-prem GPU

Sub-100 ms inference at the machine

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Guardrails

An agent that can move a nip needs a leash

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.

  • Bounded action space. Each agent can only write to an explicit tag allow-list, inside per-tag rate and magnitude limits.
  • Policy engine before every write. Autonomy level, shift, grade, interlock state and operator presence are all evaluated before a setpoint moves.
  • Human-in-the-loop gates. Anything above the site threshold — speed ramps, grade releases, safety-adjacent moves — waits for a named approver.
  • Immutable audit log. Append-only, hash-chained, exportable, and retained on the mill's own storage.
  • Hard fallback. Loss of the edge node, the network or the model returns control to the DCS's last known-good state within one scan cycle.
  • Tenant and IP isolation. Furnish recipes, grade models and defect libraries never cross a customer boundary. On-prem deployment available.

Compliance posture

StandardScopeStatus
SOC 2 Type IICloud control plane RUNNING In progress [ASPIRATIONAL]
ISO 27001Company-wide ISMS QUEUED Planned [ASPIRATIONAL]
IEC 62443Mill-edge OT security RUNNING Design-aligned
GDPROperator data SUCCEEDED Compliant
ISO 9001 / FSCQuality + chain of custody records SUCCEEDED Supported

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From the control room

What machine tenders say

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
Enterprise

Standardise autonomy across the group

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.

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  • SSO, SCIM and role-based access down to the tag level
  • Group-wide autonomy policy with per-site override and approval chains
  • Cross-mill benchmarking on broke, breaks, steam and first-pass quality
  • VPC, on-prem and fully air-gapped mill-edge deployment options
  • 99.5% control-plane SLA; edge autonomy survives control-plane loss
  • Dedicated deployment engineer and quarterly model review per site
FAQ

Straight answers

The questions mill managers and process engineers actually ask in the first meeting.

Yes, for design partners and enterprise groups. Where a partner holds the relationship, we co-sell rather than compete for it.

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