Quick Start Guide

This guide takes an empty organization to its first optimized production run. Steps 2–4 are one-time setup; steps 5–8 are the everyday loop.

Onboarding & Access

The Deckle Plus team sets up your organization during onboarding. Once it's created you're given:

  • a 10-digit Organization ID
  • a Super Admin username and password
  • the URL of your Deckle Plus instance

The team can also load your machines, paper types and GSM profiles for you during onboarding, so you may find steps 2 and 3 already done.

Adding your team

Sign in as the Super Admin and create accounts for your planners, operators and supervisors in Settings → Accounts. Each role gets its own dashboard and its own permissions — see Dashboards and Roles & Access.

Step 1: Sign In

1

Open your Deckle Plus URL

Use any modern browser. Nothing is installed locally.
2

Enter your Organization ID, username and password

The Organization ID is the 10-digit number from onboarding. Tick “Remember me” to keep the Organization ID and username filled in on this device.
Signing in with an Organization ID, username and password

Step 2: Add a Machine

A machine record holds the constraints every optimization for that machine must respect. Machines live under Setup → Machines and only Admins can create them.

1

Setup → Machines → Add Machine

2

Enter the machine name and Deckle Size (mm)

The deckle size is the maximum usable parent-reel width, e.g. 5600 mm.
3

Set Max Blades

The number of blade positions the slitter can hold. The optimizer never proposes a pattern that needs more.
4

Optionally set Max Waste Target (%) and Per Pattern (%)

Leave blank to let the optimizer simply minimize waste. See Machine Configuration for how these are used.
Setup → Machines: the Add New Machine form with Machine Name, Deckle Size (mm), Max Blades, Max Waste Target (%), Per Pattern (%) and Notes
Adding a machine (Setup → Machines)

Step 3: Add Paper Types & GSM

Under Setup → Paper Types (Admin only), add each grade you produce and its GSM values. Every GSM carries its own minimum trimming.

1

Setup → Paper Types → Add Paper Type

2

Enter the Grade Name

e.g. “Kraft Liner”. If the grade already exists, your new GSM rows are added to it.
3

Add one or more GSM rows

Each row is a GSM value plus its Minimum Trimming (mm). Use the Available Deckle helper to see what usable width that trim leaves on each machine.
4

Optionally set Average Parent Reel Weight (MT)

Used to estimate finished reel counts when patterns complete.

Step 4: Add Customers

Every order is linked to a customer. Customers live under Orders → Customers and are created by an Admin.

1

Orders → Customers → Add Customer

2

Enter the Company Name and a short ID

The ID is up to 5 characters (e.g. BPK) and identifies the customer quickly in lists.
3

Add the address and tax details

Address lines, city, state, pincode, plus GSTIN / PAN / State Code. These populate delivery challans.

Step 5: Enter an Order

Orders are entered by an Admin under Orders → New Order. Planners view the order queue and plan against it.

1

Orders → New Order

Pick the customer and set the order date. Optionally record the customer's PO number and a delivery date.
2

Add order widths

For each line: choose the width type (REEL / SHEET / THERMAL), paper type and GSM, the width (plus height for SHEET), the target weight in MT, and an optional allowed-variance %.
3

Mark the order Confirmed

Only Confirmed orders can be pulled onto a run. Draft orders stay out of the planning queue.
Orders → New Order: customer and order header, then an order-width row with width type, paper type, GSM, width, target weight (MT) and variance
Entering an order and its widths

Step 6: Create a Run

1

Click New Run

Planners start a run from the New run button on their dashboard; Admins also have it in the Runs page header.
2

Step 1 — Machine & Grade

Choose the machine, paper type and GSM. The wizard shows the resulting reel width, available deckle and blade count; you can override any of them for this run.
3

Step 2 — Select Widths

Confirmed orders matching that grade appear. Tick the widths to include and set how many MT of each to allocate to this run.
4

Step 3 — Review & Create

The run is created in Draft status.
Creating a deckle run with the New Run wizard

Step 7: Optimize & Accept

1

Open the run and click Optimize

Optimization runs in the background; the run moves through Optimizing to Optimized.
2

Review the candidate results

The engine returns one result, or several ranked by waste when it has to use each width's allowed variance. Each shows its patterns, blade positions and waste %.
3

Accept a result

Accepting materializes the patterns and blade configurations for the floor.

Step 8: Produce & Complete

1

An operator starts the run

This moves it to In Progress and locks the plan.
2

Complete each pattern

Operators work through the patterns in order, recording actual run length and logging any waste events.
3

The run completes

Finished reels are added to inventory. From there they can be dispatched to the customer on a delivery challan.

Going Live

A typical rollout is: day 1, set up machines, paper types and customers (often done with the Deckle Plus team during onboarding); day 2, enter real orders, create and optimize your first run, and produce it on the floor. From then on every shift is planned, tracked and closed in Deckle Plus.

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