Deckle PlusCut smarter.
Waste less.
End-to-end production management for paper mills and converters. Minimize trim waste with mathematically optimal cutting patterns — and manage your entire production lifecycle in one platform.
Optimization engine · Run #DP-9041
0.38%
run waste score
<4ms
engine latency
100%
audit coverage
trim waste, down from the 4–7% industry norm
margin recovery on optimized production
recovered per month, depending on mill size
from walkthrough to live production
Why manual deckle planning damages margins.
Six failure modes we see in nearly every manually planned operation — each one quietly billing the mill every month.
Excessive trim waste
Manual layouts average 4–7% trim — $7,000 to $20,000 lost every month.
Production delays
Manual schedules take 2–3 hours each, adding 1–2 shifts to lead times.
Single-person dependency
The entire cutting setup lives in one senior planner’s memory.
No inventory visibility
Untracked stock forces duplicate procurement and 20–30% excess accumulation.
Blade constraint errors
Manual calculations produce infeasible patterns discovered on the machine.
No margin transparency
Waste leakage passes through undetected until the quarter closes.
Every tool your mill needs, in one platform.
A two-phase optimization engine wrapped in a complete order-to-dispatch workflow.
Multi-phase optimization engine
Column generation followed by a knapsack solver, respecting blade count and trim constraints as hard limits.
Sandbox what-if analysis
Isolated copies of any production run for testing alternate scenarios — with side-by-side waste comparison.
End-to-end production lifecycle
Customer orders, deckle runs, cutting patterns, waste event logging, delivery challans, and dispatch.
Inventory & material intelligence
FIFO allocation with real-time stock by paper type, GSM, and width — every reel tracked through every draw.
Multi-type order management
REEL, SHEET, and THERMAL order types with variance tolerances per customer.
Role-based access control
Admins, Planners, Operators, and Supervisors — every action in a full, immutable audit trail.
5 t/day converters → 500+ t/day integrated mill groups
Live in 48 hours.
No IT infrastructure changes — Deckle Plus is cloud SaaS from day one.
Book a walkthrough session
Our team pre-configures your machines, paper types, and GSM profiles.
Configure your mill setup
Deckle widths, blade count limits, customer database, and staff roles.
Go live in under 48 hours
Enter first orders, run the optimizer, start tracking production the same week.
No commitment required — early access applicants hear back within 24 hours.
Building your mill's complete ecosystem.
Early access partners can request prioritization of any item.
Everything a planner would ask.
Deckle cutting optimization software computes the mathematically optimal combination of paper widths to cut from a master reel, minimizing trim waste. Deckle Plus uses a two-phase algorithm — column generation followed by a knapsack solver — producing under 0.5% average trim waste, compared with the 2–5% typical of manual whiteboard planning.
Run one week of orders through it.
Bring your deckle widths, blade counts, and a real order book — we’ll show you the waste you didn’t know you had.