Pulp, paper and converting solutions

Quality Tracking

TestCentral combines QCS data and lab tests to ensure only good products ship to customers. Track reels and rolls. Chart and export priceless data.

Quality Control Systems

Increase quality of product grades, reduce costs and solve problems. PantherQCS is scalable advanced process control all pulp and paper mills.

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MES that evolves with your needs

Panther enhances MillTools MES continually to add functionality to meet our customers’ requirements. A modern and intuitive user experience makes operators and managers highly effective. Production, finishing, product tracking, customer facing and flexible reporting occur in easy-to-use and secure applications on desktops, shopfloor workstations and mobile devices.

MillTools user interfaces and automation help users and machinery follow process, remain productive and put safety first. It’s the system of choice for Fortune 500 companies and independents alike.

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Quality tracking for papermaking and converting

TestCentral tracks production quality — reel by reel, set by set and roll by roll. This quality tracking solution consolidates test and scanner measurement profiles.

Give operators real-time access to turn-up profiles and test information to decide quickly how to meet customer specifications and conserve production time, material and energy.

Panther technology eliminates statistical anomalies associated with highly-filtered QCS statistics and produces actual as-sold roll quality data for paper mills.

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QCS with scalability

Legacy quality control systems, scanners, sensors and components become unsupportable over time.

PantherQCS solutions include advanced feed-forward machine-direction control with virtual basis weight, multi-variable moisture control and automatic grade change. Our QuickChange technology responds automatically to sheet breaks and helps paper machines recover within one machine dead-time period.

PantherQCS is scalable, so you don’t have to make all of your upgrades at one time. Add cross-direction and other controls over time. Mills and plants can have exceptional quality measurement and automatic control with long life and low cost of ownership.

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Visualize data for process analysis

Capture data from sources such as continuous process variables, scanner quality profiles, discrete lab test data and events which occur at different times during production. ProcessAnalyzer retrieves data from QCS, MES, DCS and other databases, then trends it graphically on a contiguous timeline in 2D and 3D, so you can quickly identify cause and effect of production quality issues.

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Service on a different level

Service is our most indispensable solution. So, whether you use our MES, QCS or process analysis solutions, Panther serves customers with a one-of-a-kind 24/365 support infrastructure. Step one is providing you with a technical account manager to look after your needs. Next, they leverage a dynamic matrix organization of engineers, technicians, help desk and training experts to document, investigate and solve problems. Together, we work on-site and remotely to understand the nature of your challenges and offer solutions.

It’s no surprise that our people become an extension of your own team, and we adopt our customers into the Panther family.

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Panther products and services

Modern tools for your entire organization

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Use off-the-shelf workstations and connected devices with Chromium browsers

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View, report, export and send data to anyone who needs quality and manufacturing intelligence

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Modern and intuitive user experiences that speak the language of any country and company

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Monitor quality and production remotely and securely from anywhere

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Tools for everyone from the shop floors and loading docks to the corporate headquarters

MES and QCS from one source

MillTools leverages your own configuration, group privileges and customer profiles, so your MES matches mill process and business rules on computers and mobile smart devices. And these details are key to helping your people to be productive and make intelligent decisions. So, you just found the most customer-configurable MES for pulp, paper and nonwoven manufacturers.

PantherQCS is a game-changer for mills and plants striving to improve product quality, reduce waste and avoid unscheduled downs. So, reset the end-of-life clock on legacy scanners and sensors. Improve paper machine control. eliminate sheet breaks and conserve fiber. Enhance performance, lower maintenance costs and see a noticeable ROI. We can show you how.

Pulp plants, paper mills, tissue mills and nonwoven mills trust MillTools

Orders, scheduling, raw materials, production, produced unit and roll tracking, inventory management, shipping and invoicing with enhanced communication and intelligence with less paper-pushing and mistakes. Our customers give MillTools the highest marks, saying, “We would never do our work without it!”

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Configures to mills and their customers
Production and load planning
Powerful quality and inventory tracking
Unrivaled manufacturing intelligence
Third-party business interfaces

Busting the QCS myth

PantherQCS is a fundamental departure from last-century approaches to upgrading quality control systems. First, our QCS solutions are scalable and can incorporate your existing, reliable infrastructure. Then we offer options that no competitor can, so every mill and plant can pay less to upgrade and stop scavenging for surplus parts.

At last, effective cross-direction and machine-direction control is no longer a pipe dream.

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Support from real people 24/7

Panther re-engineered the conventional service model to develop the most responsive support organization and culture in the industry.

Beginning with real working relationships, we are on a first-name basis with all of our customers! Then, they call and we answer anytime day and night. Our matrix organization empowers the Panther Helpdesk to marshal experts and leadership across our entire company to investigate and resolve issues without cutting corners.

As a result, engineers, technicians and other specialists are able to work the problem remotely and on-site — whenever Panther Systems is needed 24/7/365. This way, our customers’ emergencies become our own until we find solutions.

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