Corrugator warp & board waste
Warp and washboarding drift through humidity swings were costing reject stacks on the most expensive material in the plant.
- Corvex holds warp to 0.6 mm/m
- −28% makeready waste
- Strength on target across grades
Customers
For the plants that make the world’s boxes
Corrugated box plants, folding-carton makers, label and flexible converters, and integrated packaging groups, from high-volume to high-mix short-run, $30M to $10B in revenue.
Who runs converting on Foldeon
Integrated corrugated plantsSheet feedersFolding-carton makersLitho-laminatorsLabel & flexible convertersPackaging groups
Illustrative outcomes
What the loop is built to deliver
−31%Waste & makeready
−42%Quality claims
+14 ptsLine OEE
−9%Plant energy
Case snapshots
Where autonomy pays first
Illustrative scenarios drawn from the ICP.
Brand color & print-defect claims
Registration drift and color mismatch were driving brand-rejected print and reruns on the highest-visibility part of the package.
- Chromata holds ΔE < 1 to brand
- −48% brand-rejected print
- Full brand-color audit trail
Folder-gluer skips & fishtails
Skips and fishtails surfaced at the customer’s packer as jams and claims at the hardest stage to recover.
- Gluvex: 0 skips / 10k
- −50% packer-line failures
- −60% over-rejection
The buying committee
Aligned incentives across the plant
The Plant Director is the economic buyer; process/press and corrugator engineers and quality/sustainability managers are champions; IT/OT, quality and security approve.
- Economic buyer: Plant / Operations Director
- Champions: Process, Press & Corrugator Engineers
- Champions: Quality / Sustainability Managers
- Approvers: IT/OT, quality and security
Deal · alignedAUTONOMOUS
Economic buyerPlant Director
ChampionProcess Eng.
ChampionQuality Mgr.
ApproverIT/OT + Sec.
Committeeon target
Qualification
When a plant is ready for autonomy
Volume & mix
Sufficient board/box volume, mix and line count to drive clear ROI.
Integration access
Corrugator, press, die-cutter, folder-gluer and inspection with API/OPC access, plus MES.
Executive mandate
A mandate to cut waste, makeready or claims, or to automate quality and OEE across jobs.
Pilot appetite
Willingness to run a paid pilot with a defined waste, claim or OEE success metric.
The champions are the engineers who’ve been fighting the same drift for years. When they see it hold to target autonomously, the plant follows.
0.6mm/m
Warp
0.9to brand
Color ΔE
0/10k
Glue skips
91%
OEE
Answers
Questions converters ask
Are these customers real?
The scenarios and figures on this page are illustrative, drawn from Foldeon’s ideal-customer profile and product design targets. We’ll share reference conversations under NDA as pilots convert.
Do you work with our machine vendors?
Yes. Foldeon is vendor-neutral and built for mixed fleets, with cross-vendor connectors for corrugators, presses, die-cutters, folder-gluers, palletizers and MES.
What size plant is a fit?
Converters from roughly $30M to $10B in revenue with enough volume, mix and line count to drive clear ROI.
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Early customers shape the roadmap and lock in outcome pricing. Let’s scope your pilot.