In the fast-paced world of scrap recycling, alligator shears have emerged as an indispensable tool for efficient metal processing. Named for their distinctive hinged jaw design that resembles an alligator's mouth, these powerful machines deliver exceptional cutting performance across a wide range of materials.  

 

Unmatched Cutting Power and Versatility  

Driven by advanced hydraulic systems, alligator shears generate immense force, allowing them to effortlessly slice through thick steel bars, metal pipes, automotive components, and other challenging scrap materials. Their primary function is to reduce large, unwieldy scrap pieces into smaller, uniform sections—a critical step in preparing metals for downstream processes such as shredding, melting, or compacting. By optimizing scrap size, these shears enhance handling efficiency, streamline transportation logistics, and maximize the overall productivity of recycling operations.  

 

Built for Durability and Performance  

Engineered for heavy-duty industrial use, alligator shears are renowned for their rugged construction and long-term reliability. Designed to endure the harsh conditions of scrap yards and recycling facilities, they deliver consistent performance even under continuous operation. Their straightforward yet robust design minimizes maintenance requirements, reducing downtime and ensuring uninterrupted workflow.  

 

A Sustainable Solution for Modern Recycling  

As the global demand for sustainable metal recycling grows, alligator shears play a pivotal role in improving material recovery rates and operational efficiency. By transforming bulky scrap into manageable pieces, they contribute to a more streamlined, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly recycling process.  

 

Whether processing demolition debris, manufacturing waste, or end-of-life vehicles, alligator shears remain a trusted solution for scrap recyclers worldwide—combining power, precision, and durability to meet the evolving needs of the industry.

In the realm of metal recycling and processing, gantry shears stand as a remarkable innovation , revolutionizing the way we process scrap metal.

 

Gantry shears are heavy-duty hydraulic cutters designed for processing various metals. Their distinctive gantry-style construction provides exceptional stability and strength, enabling them to deliver tremendous cutting force. These robust machines can easily slice through thick metal plates, steel beams, and large scrap metal pieces with precision and efficiency.

 

One of the most significant advantages of gantry shears is their versatility. They can handle various metals like steel, aluminum, copper, and iron. Whether it's dismantling old cars, recycling construction waste, or processing industrial metal scrap, gantry shears prove to be up to the task.

 

Moreover, gantry shears are highly efficient and can finish the shearing process quickly, greatly boosting the productivity of metal recycling plants. Thanks to their precise cutting, they also reduce material waste, making recycling more cost - effective. This efficiency benefits recycling companies and has a positive environmental impact by promoting the reuse of valuable metal resources. 

 

In addition, the operation of gantry shear is relatively straightforward. With advanced hydraulic and control systems, operators can adjust the shear force, angle and speed according to different metal materials. Moreover, safety features are integrated into the design to ensure operator safety during high - pressure shearing. 

 

Gantry shears are crucial in scrap recycling. With powerful power, high precision and high automation, they can effectively improve efficiency. They're not just a machine but the key to unlocking metal recycling potential, turning waste into treasure and promoting a circular economy. 

Can a vision counter be used for multiple purposes?

Can a vision counting machine count multiple materials? The answer is yes.

There are two meanings of one machine for multiple uses. One is that for materials of similar size in the same industry, they can be counted. The other is that for materials of similar size in different industries, they can also be counted by using the same model.

1.Different materials in the same industry
Take the hardware industry as an example. Different types of screws or other hardware can use the same equipment. Perhaps for enterprises with a dozen or more materials, only one counting device can be used to count all materials. Moreover, our vision counting equipment also has a learning-free function. You can directly pour the materials on the counting machine hopper and our counter will count them immediately, which greatly improves the efficiency of the operation. It reduces the difficulty of operating the machine, which is especially convenient for companies that need to frequently switch materials.

2.Materials in different industries can use the same equipment
Usually the same industry does not use materials from other industries for counting. But for the counting equipment manufacturers, this kind of universal equipment is very important. Such as the bottle cap, zipper, and screws of the corresponding size. Such a multi-purpose machine can not only meet more industries, easy to scale production, for the reduction of production cost is also very helpful.

Efficiency Equals Productivity -Setting Free Counting Machine are the Future

In the era of Industry 4.0, enhancing production efficiency is the core of enterprise competitiveness. Traditional manual counting and semi-automated equipment are not only time-consuming and labor-intensive but also prone to errors, especially in industries like hardware, pharmaceuticals, seeds, electronic components, and food, where the demand for high-precision, high-efficiency counting is growing. Our company leveraging machine vision and image recognition technology, introduces the “Setting-free Vision Counting Machine,” achieving truly “foolproof operation” and propelling production efficiency into a new stage.

Pain Points of Traditional Counting Methods
In areas where smart manufacturing is not yet widespread, many enterprises still rely on manual or semi-automatic equipment for counting and packaging, facing numerous challenges:

Manual Counting: Slow speed, prone to fatigue, high error rate, disrupting production rhythm.
Traditional Counting Machines: Require complex debugging and parameter settings, high operational barrier, need re-learning when changing materials, failing to meet the demand for simple operation.
High Costs: Hidden costs like employee training, equipment debugging, error correction, and rework increase the burden on enterprises.

Setting-free Counting Machine: An Efficiency Revolution
The One Electronics' independently developed Setting-Learning Vision Counting Machine completely revolutionizes the traditional model, achieving intelligent "Count Immediately Upon Pouring" operation
✅ No Debugging Needed ------ Automatically identifies and counts materials after pouring, eliminating complex parameter settings.
✅ Intelligent Adaptation ------ Handles parts of different shapes and sizes (like screws, seeds, pills) directly without changing algorithms.
✅ One-Button Operation ------ Supports total counting or quantitative packaging, meeting diverse production needs.
✅ High-Precision Guarantee ------ Achieves high-accuracy counting based on Zero-Learning algorithms.

How Does Setting-free Counting Empower Industries?
Industrial Manufacturing: Efficient Packaging for Fasteners, Hardware, Electronic Components
In the production of standard parts like screws, nuts, and plastic components, traditional counting methods are inefficient. The one setting-free counting machine achieves high-speed, precise counting of thousands of pieces per minute (special materials and models enable even higher speeds) and automatically completes packaging and labeling, significantly boosting shipping efficiency.

Agricultural Seeds: Precise Counting, Aiding Scientific Planting
The seed industry demands extremely high counting accuracy, where manual packaging is error-prone. The one equipment can automatically identify seeds of different particle sizes, achieving quantitative packaging, helping agricultural enterprises reduce losses and improve standardization.

Pharmaceuticals & Food: Safe, Hygienic, Zero Errors
Tablets, capsules, food pellets, etc., have strict hygiene and accuracy requirements. Setting-free Counting Machine enables non-contact vision counting, avoiding contamination while ensuring precision, complying with relevant production standards.

Efficiency Equals Productivity - Setting-free counter is the Future
Under the wave of smart manufacturing, "simplified operation, efficient production" has become an industry trend. Leveraging over 50 patented technologies, The one Electronics deeply integrates machine vision with AI algorithms, enabling intelligent counting devices to be truly "ready-to-use out of the box," operable without training. This not only reduces labor costs for enterprises but also multiplies production efficiency, helping customers seize market opportunities.

Laundry pods counting packaging solution With the rapid development of household cleaning products market, laundry pods as a new type of washing products are widely welcomed because of their convenient use, accurate dosage and environmental protection characteristics. However, in the high-speed production line, the packaging counting of laundry pods faces many challenges.

The VX series vision counting machine plays an important role in the laundry pods counting and packaging production line. The following is a case of a well-known daily chemical enterprise customer. As shown in the following video,  VX8-3 vision counting machine is demonstrated.

Solution
The elevator is equipped with an 8-channel design to meet customer production requirements, such as 15 per pack/box, the speed can reach 40-50 per pack/box per minute,
At the same time, the channel combination counting can be used to achieve more quantity counting packaging, such as 40 per pack/box, and the speed can reach 15-25 per pack/box per minute.


Advantage for VX8-3 counting machine
1.Can count quickly and accurately.
2.Strong compatibility, whether single chamber, multi-chamber, can achieve counting.
3.The product information can be traced, and the whole set of equipment can be linked with the enterprise management system
4.Intelligent learning function to reduce parameter debugging time
5.Through the learning mode, the data of various falling postures of materials can be automatically obtained, and the accuracy of parameters can be checked through the verification mode. If there is an error, the parameters can be manually fine-tuned. A material only needs to be learned and verified once, and the next time it is used, it can be directly retrieved.

The counting machine can be paired with bag or box production line according to customer’s requirements.The following is a schematic diagram of the bagging and box production line.

The successful application of the

VX8-3 vision counter in the laundry detergent industry not only addresses the of traditional counting methods but also provides a reliable solution for the intelligent upgrade of the daily chemical industry. As algorithms continue to optimize and hardware performance improves, vision counting technology will play a crucial role in more niche areas, driving the packaging industry towards greater efficiency and precision.

How to Count Tiny Materials - Rhinestones

In the jewelry accessories, precision manufacturing and other industries, accurate counting and efficient packaging of tiny materials such as zircon, rhinestones, and micro bearings have always been a difficult point in the production process. In response to this demand, we launched the VB4-35-2 four-channel symmetrical vision counting and packaging machine, which can achieve 20-30 packages per minute of 100pcs through our multi-channel vision counting machine, it is greatly helping enterprises to improve production efficiency.

Symmetrical design of four channels, doubled efficiency

The small parts counting equipment adopts a double-sided dual-channel layout (4 channels in total). The materials are evenly distributed to each channel through the vibration plate, and the high-frame rate industrial camera synchronously identifies and counts them. The efficiency is increased by 300% compared with single-channel equipment, which is especially suitable for high-speed processing of tiny materials of 1-5mm.

Higher recognition accuracy

Equipped with a customized optical system, it can accurately identify easily interfering materials such as transparent rhinestones and reflective zircon

The AI algorithm automatically eliminates fragments and sticky particles, and the counting accuracy is ≥99.9%

Supports parameter presets for special-shaped materials, and switches between different product types with one click

Seamless connection with vertical packaging machine

Through the intelligent speed control module, it is linked with the downstream vertical packaging machine to achieve full automation of counting, bagging and sealing. The video measured speed is stable at 20-30 bags/minute (100pcs/bag), and the daily production capacity can be adjusted according to needs.

Typical application scenarios

Jewelry processing industry: packaging of rhinestones, zircon, and moissanite

Electronic components: quantitative packaging of micro-cores and ceramic capacitors

Medical consumables: counting of small-particle tablets, capsules, and other tiny medical consumables

Case analysis

After a Zhejiang rhinestone manufacturer replaced traditional packaging with VB4-35-2

Packaging efficiency increased from 8 packs/minute to 28 packs/minute

Labor costs reduced by 70%, and equipment investment recovered within half a year

How to order a vision counting packaging machine

Hefei The One Electronic Technology Co.,LTD is a professional R & D, production and sales of vision counting machine high-tech enterprises, its production of the one vision counting machine, relying on high-speed camera intelligent recognition technology, has helped many enterprises to solve the counting problems, such as seeds, plastic parts, candy, eggs, screws, laundry beads, capacitors, chips and so on.

Our company can not only provide counting equipment, but also provide customers with a complete set of counting and packaging equipment including counting,labeling, packaging (bags and box) finished products conveyor, so that customers can achieve full automatic counting and packaging.

How to order a vision counting packaging machine

Step 1: Contact with our business manager, identify the materials to be counted, and fill in the "Customer Demand form", including material information, packaging requirements, and so on

Step 2: send the material to the factory for actual machine measurement, this step is very important, only after the actual test, according to the test data statistics to get a clear counting accuracy and speed
Step 3: If the test accuracy and speed meet the requirements, the technical scheme design (preliminary) shall be made according to the specific needs (including the use scenario, bump requirements, site size requirements, etc.), then arrange the advance payment
Step 4: After receiving the advance payment, our engineer will start to refine the technical scheme, issue figure, procurement, assembly
Step 5: Commissioning, acceptance (online, can also be on-site acceptance)
Step 6: After acceptance, pay for the balance payment
Step 7: Delivery, remote assistance installation and commissioning

Our company's vision counting machine provides standard or non-standardized technical design services based on vision counting technology, so that the final equipment can truly fit your workshop use.

Our cooperation is based on the principles of equality, win-win, and respect for facts. If you have any questions about counting, please contact us!

Vision counting machine helps you solve the problem of expensive labor

With the increasing of labor costs, many enterprises began to find ways to save labor costs.

The customer said that they have 8-10 people in the counting and packaging process, and the packaging quality is also unstable. Therefore, they want to seek professional automatic vision counting machine that can reduce some labor for other links and improve packaging quality. Finally, after detailed demand docking, a customized vision counting machine was built based on the customer's packaging requirements, speed requirements and product characteristics.

The customer uses manual material collection and is equipped with a foot switch for discharging materials. If there are 30 pieces/package, the counting machine can reach 25 packages/minute.

If the speed requirement is fast and the budget is sufficient, an automatic packaging machine can be equipped with a signal docking with the counting machine to achieve full automation of counting and packaging.

We can do some calculations and see how the vision counting packaging machine can help you solve the problem of expensive labor.

Before customer use counting machine: according to the 8 people, packaging 2 people, the average one person can complete 2.5 packages a minute, then 8 people can complete 20 packages a minute. In 8 hours a day, 9600 packets a day.

After using our automatic vision counting packaging machine, according to the counting and packaging speed of 25 packages/minute, 2 people are required, one to load the finished product and the other to pack the finished product. To complete 9600 packages, it only takes 6.4 hours. The manual labor saves 6 people. If the salary is 60,000 RMB per year, the counting and packaging process can save 360,000 costs per year.

In addition, there are some hidden benefits:
1. If there is a shortage of quantity in manual packaging, it may cause customer complaints, affect the corporate image, and may lead to a reduction in order volume.
2. Since the vision counting machine will not be short of quantity, it can ensure packaging quality and customer satisfaction, and the corporate image is improved.

What are the mature counting and packaging solutions for laundry pods?

Laundry pods are being widely accepted by consumers and the market is slowly maturing, leading to mass production, sales, and marketing.

After the problem of forming laundry pod is solved, the next step is counting and packaging. The special shape of laundry pods requires not only precise counting but also protection of their appearance from wear and tear.

Our company mature VX8 automatic vision counting machine, after multiple cooperation accumulation in the laundry pods industry, has become very mature in counting pods. It can meet the counting efficiency and packaging requirements for bags and boxes, single or multi-chambers.
Here is an introduction to one of the counting and packaging solutions.

This is a typical case of a feeding device + counting + box packaging equipment. Other equipment such as a printer can be selected according to needs.
The counting efficiency can reach 40-50 bags per minute with 15 pods per bag. The number of pods per bag can be adjusted according to the actual production and packaging needs.  Get more multifunction counting packaging machine from https://www.visioncounter.com/

What information you need to know before accepting the counter?

As a manufacturing equipment company that designs and manufactures products in-house, we have customers visiting us both before and after sales. We have had many customers visiting our company recently to learn more about our products.

The figure below is the customer who come to accept the overall equipment. The overall equipment includes feeding and conveying equipment, vision counting machine equipment, packaging machine and labeling equipment.

We also have our customers in the Yangtze River Delta come to accept the vision counting equipment. The customer looked at every corner of the equipment very carefully and asked a lot of questions about the subsequent use of the equipment. Today we will summarize for you what information you need to know when handing over your machine.

First of all, we will have a dedicated one-to-one after-sales engineer to hand over the machine and debug it. Secondly, we will train on-site users, whether they are technicians or ordinary front-line workers. If you encounter other problems in the future, we can also provide video teaching, and software problems can be solved through remote control. In addition, there are also many handover details on the customer side. For example, the customer's technical team will come to our company to participate in machine training, in order to facilitate later use and maintenance work. Some companies even brought in senior technical engineers, who had a detailed understanding of the equipment structure, parts, counting, documentation, and packaging. Of course, we also have learning-free equipment for customers who don’t have senior technicians. The learning-free counting machine is the latest machine developed by our company. The operator can use it directly after receiving the machine. There is no need to create a scheme, and the operation is simpler.