Industries from electronics and automotive to retail hardware face the costly challenge of manually counting and packaging vast quantities of small items—screws, nuts, bolts, washers, electrical components, and more. Manual counting is slow, prone to significant error (leading to customer complaints or giveaway), and scales poorly with increasing order volumes. The core need is to replace this unreliable, labor-intensive process with a fully automated system that guarantees high counting accuracy, dramatically increases speed, and provides clear documentation for each batch or order.

The technology selection is primarily driven by part size, shape, and required counting speed. For small, uniform items (like standard nuts or pills), a high-speed multi-head precision weigher calculates count by weight with extreme accuracy. For larger, irregular, or mixed parts (like assorted screws or furniture fittings), an AI-powered vision counting system is indispensable, as it can identify, differentiate, and count items by shape. These counting modules are then integrated with downstream VFFS machines for bagging or automatic case/tray packers for boxing, creating a seamless flow from bulk supply to packaged lots.