Abstract: To address the issues of increased unqualified cut tobacco and high labor intensity caused by frequent start and stop of the equipment for tobacco cutting section during the production process, a tobacco cutter control system was designed based on material flow balance. The system employed a sectional flow control mechanism, utilizing the pre-cutting feeder as a link to connect the upstream and downstream cutting sections. By balancing the flow of the tobacco cutter and correlating the flow with the bottom belt discharge frequency of the leaf storage cabinet, the automatic adjustment of material flow in the cutting section was achieved. Based on this method, verification experiments were conducted on cut tobacco materials for 6 cigarette brands provided by Hebei Baisha Tobacco Co., Ltd.. The results showed that after the adoption of the control system, the average shutdown frequency of the tobacco cutter decreased from 11.82 times per batch to 0.29 time per batch, the mass of unqualified cut tobacco reduced from 1 796.9 grams per batch to 43.8 grams per batch, and the cut tobacco widths of 6 cigarette brands surveyed met the corresponding process requirements.