MillOne

Discover the power of One.

Powering the path to autonomous mills

    Welcome to the future of papermaking.

    Meet MillOne, our innovative ecosystem that empowers paper mills worldwide by integrating advanced automation and artificial intelligence to enhance human expertise and streamline production processes. Thanks to real-time data analytics, predictive maintenance, and smarter decision-making, it can make your mill more productive, reduce costs, and increase profitability.

    At the heart of our approach is a commitment to sustainability and efficiency. We want to ensure that resource use, waste, and energy consumption are minimized. With MillOne, we’re shaping the future of the industry, fostering collaboration and growth as we move toward a more high-performing papermaking world.

    The next step in operational excellence and workforce empowerment

      MillOne revolutionizes the papermaking process by optimizing workflows, boosting productivity, and tackling key challenges. In this section, we’ll explore how our solutions improve four essential areas—productivity, cost, workforce, and sustainability—helping you tackle any challenge and empower your team for the future of the autonomous paper mill.

      PRODUCTIVITY & UPTIME

      Maximizing productivity and uptime

      Maximizing productivity and uptime

      MillOne streamlines workflows to significantly reduce reaction times, eliminating transition-related mistakes and avoiding misunderstandings that can lead to operational errors. All operational roles are integrated into a single workspace, which provides a centralized hub for task management and real-time collaboration. This ensures that operators receive clear and concise data without the risk of information overload.

      As an intelligent ecosystem, MillOne consistently finds unused potential and alerts operators to it—such as through a notification when there’s an opportunity for speed increase.

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      COST & QUALITY

      Cutting costs without compromising quality

      Cutting costs without compromising quality

      MillOne helps you achieve cost efficiency while maintaining the highest quality standards by reducing operational errors and ensuring thorough handovers. It supports every stage of mill operations, from the start of a shift to handovers, team briefings, task and production monitoring, inspection rounds, grade changes, alarm handling, documentation, reporting, and shift completion.

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      WORKFORCE CHALLENGES

      Empowering the workforce

      Empowering the workforce

      Knowledge gaps and a growing shortage of workers present challenges to the paper industry. MillOne helps bridge skill gaps by providing data-driven operations, guided troubleshooting, and integrated upskilling, ensuring that expertise is preserved and easily accessible. With personalized workplaces and multilingual options, every operator can work in their preferred language and focus on the tasks that matter most. In addition, MillOne transforms experience into systemic expertise, thus fostering continuous learning and long-term workforce development.

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      SUSTAINABILITY

      Driving sustainability forward

      Driving sustainability forward

      Sustainability and efficiency go hand in hand. MillOne helps you reduce waste and lower your energy consumption. With role-specific and location-based insights, operators can make informed decisions that minimize material loss. And thanks to MillOne’s predictive maintenance function, the system actively extends equipment lifespans, thus ensuring a more sustainable and cost-effective production process. With these innovations, your mill will be able to meet industry-wide sustainability standards while preparing for future regulatory requirements.

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      Meet the faces behind MillOne

        Behind every innovative solution is a dedicated team committed to driving change. Meet the experts and visionaries who are shaping the future of the autonomous paper mill. Their passion, expertise, and collaboration are the driving force behind MillOne, ensuring that every step forward creates a meaningful impact.

        How it works

          MillOne uses advanced technologies to automate and optimize key production processes. By connecting various systems and providing real-time data, it enhances decision-making and streamlines task management. Your operators receive actionable insights that allow them to make informed adjustments. And: MillOne is designed to continuously evolve based on feedback, so it consistently adapts to the unique needs of your mill.

          Collaboration and task management
          Collaboration and task management

          Collaboration and task management

          From the start to the end of a shift, MillOne defines and tracks every step and occurrence. This includes inspections and shift log entries and creating actionable tasks that shift leads can then assign accordingly. Maintenance teams receive handovers, plan and execute work orders, and provide feedback on operations. Throughout the shifts, all activities are documented and reported, so by the end, a full handover ensures continuity, allowing the next team to seamlessly take over.

          Real-time operational transparency

          Since every aspect of your mill operations is visible and trackable in real time, MillOne enables your operators to make decisions faster, thus reducing inefficiencies. Workers receive live updates on task progress, equipment status, and production metrics. This way, they can respond proactively to any issues. Thanks to seamless integration across teams, alarm handling, grade changes, and reporting become more structured and efficient.

          Real-time operational transparency
          Real-time operational transparency
          Alarm and incident management

          Alarm and incident management

          MillOne streamlines alarm and incident management for quick solutions and minimal disruption. Operators can immediately respond to alarms as they arise. Once an alarm is triggered, the system guides the operator through troubleshooting steps to identify the root of the problem. After the problem is resolved, the solution is logged into the shift log, and feedback is provided. All relevant details are then passed along in the handover, which ensures continuity between shifts.

          Personalization and user experience

          MillOne was designed with your workers in mind, providing them with the most intuitive and supportive system possible. Individual language settings and AI-supported automatic translations create a personalized workspace for each user, reducing all barriers so they can focus on the task at hand. In addition, the system provides role-specific information that is tailored to the operator’s location, ensuring that they receive the most relevant and actionable data for their tasks.

          Personalization and user experience

          Mondi’s leap to autonomy:
          Smarter mills, stronger results

            As the first mill to implement MillOne, Mondi has taken a bold step toward autonomy—and the results speak for themselves. By seamlessly connecting systems, optimizing operations, and enabling KPI-based production management, MillOne has transformed daily workflows. Task management is now fully integrated across all shifts, with adoption exceeding expectations within the first six months. Operators have embraced the system, striking a balance between system-generated tasks, manually created assignments, and efficient task resolution—without accumulating backlogs. Mondi’s success demonstrates how smart automation leads to stronger results, setting a new standard for mills on their journey to autonomy.

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              If you want to talk to someone at Voith about your questions and ideas, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us!

              Ulf Grohmann

              Director Product Management Autonomous Mill
              Product Security Officer
              Digital Product Management - zd4
              Group Division Paper

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