Perceptron MillController

Perceptron’s MillController is a mill-wide multivariable process control system that uses a real-time closed-loop negative feedback process to adjust sawmill production.

Functional overview

MillController:

• Uses information from downstream machine centers to adjust production at upstream machine centers
• Provides automatic control over product mix
• Provides board product scheduling
• Works with the Perceptron optimization software at each machine center throughout the mill, from the bucking station to the log sorter, to the turner and primary breakdown, to the canter and edger, and to the trimmer.

Each connected optimizer sends information about each solution to MillController to let MillController determine the actual production of each active board product included in the list of active orders, then adjusts production to suit.