Looking for advice in regards to large scale preroll production.
We are experiencing constant inventory discrepancies. We are producing ~170,000 units a month.
The primary area we are looking for advice in is the counting portion during production.
Instead of counting the units one by one, we lay them on trays in a specific pattern so we can count the trays v.s individual joints. This is causing discrepancies.
Does anyone have a machine or a tech for counting bulk prerolls efficiently and effectively?
Get a good pattern, enforce its usage, get a good system for holding trays, and replace people that canât follow directions. Pre-roll is seen as something anyone can do so youâll get a lot of zero effort people there.
Pay them well. If you can only afford clowns, youâll have a clown show.
Automation is great but youâll still need reliable people.
Well. You have knock boxes am I correct? And no one can tally the amount of times said box is filled and ran? And then your finishers and counters also canât relay said info properly? So youâre telling me you need someone who can math math properly.
You need to have a team of people on knock boxes, one filling tubes into trays, one packing flower into slide, one running and pulling. 2 people weighing and finishing, 2 people counting and qc. Follow chain of custody per weights and counts from start to finish. If you got people who canât math. Find people who can. Pay them proper, add incentive for exceeding expectations, that way theyâll take their counts and work seriously.
What about a scale? Arenât prerolls sold as a weight? We used to check currency by weight to double check. I donât do pre roll so correct me if Iâm wrong.
Thereâs an app for that. I was looking in regard to seeds, but the apps work best with something more consistent in size. You have to train it a little, but then you take a pic and it counts.
Weâve tried weighing pre-rolls to gauge quantity and the small differences of each one is multiplied, ending with an inaccurate count at batch sizes where it would be helpful. Hand click counters helped some people with accuracy and speed. But the best solution for us was to change the boxes the joint tubes were package into for an exact fit of desired quantity, initialed by person who packed/labeled it and changes to workflow so batches could be finished out and documented properly.
I donât know if this will fit OPs needs as from his post I am imagining trays of bare prerolls needing to be counted and quantified. Larger production of prerolls than us by a bit. A system like WolfeXtracts suggested would be the way to go. Would be neat to see a âwaterfallâ of falling prerolls being counted by a sensor.
Combine weight checks for verification + optical/vision system for primary count.
This double-check reduces discrepancies and creates an audit trail.
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