Corrugated paperboard cutting control apparatus and corrugated paperboard cutting control method

A corrugated paperboard cutting control apparatus for instructing a cutting apparatus to perform a cutting operation based on a directive sheet length, wherein the corrugated paperboard comprises a corrugated medium with flutes formed at given flute pitches to have flute ridges and troughs, and when the corrugated paperboard is conveyed in a conveyance direction crossing a direction along which each of the flute ridges or troughs extends, the cutting apparatus is operable to cut the corrugated paperboard in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction, the corrugated paperboard cutting control apparatus comprising:

• a detection section configured to detect a flute arrangement state at an actual cut position of the corrugated paperboard cut by the cutting apparatus, or a presumptive cut position of the corrugated paperboard to be cut by the cutting apparatus;
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• a managerial control section configured to acquire a result of the detection in the detection section,
• wherein the managerial control section is operable, based on the detection result in the detection section, to determine a flute arrangement phase in one flute pitch of the corrugated paper board to be located at the actual cut position or the presumptive cut position, and then to adjust a preset order-specified sheet length in such a manner as to allow the determined flute arrangement phase to come closer to a preset reference flute arrangement phase, to thereby set a directive sheet length having a value equal to an integral multiple of the flute pitch or an integral multiple of one-half of the flute pitch, and give an instruction to designate the directive sheet length to the cutting apparatus.