To shorten the releasing time, improve the productivity and facilitate the maintenance without stopping operations of a section as far as possible even when trouble occurs in a drive.

This controller for driving of a paper machine 1 is capable of detecting trouble with a trouble monitoring circuit 6, a main drive judging circuit 7 and a major trouble judging circuit 9 when the trouble is caused in a main drive 4 for each of a wire, a press, a dryer and a reel sections indispensable for producing paper by the paper machine 1, stopping only the troubled section with a trouble section stopping circuit 11 and stopping the drive 4a in a calender section with a calender stopping circuit 10, automatically changing over the troubled drive 4 to the calender drive 4a with a changeover determining circuit 12 and a changeover device 5, setting a parameter of the troubled drive 4 at the calender drive 4a with a parameter determining circuit 13 and further restarting the operation with an operation determining circuit 14.