2026-05-12
How To Choose A Vision Sorting Machine For Fasteners
Disc, multi-inlet or conveyor? The choice comes down to workpiece size, weight, required faces of inspection and target output.
Start from the workpiece. Screws, nuts, washers and small stamped parts under 30mm run best on a glass rotary disc, where transparent transport lets cameras look at the top, bottom and side in one pass.
When the part is longer than the disc window, or when several part numbers must be screened at once, a multi-inlet platform gives multiple tracks and multi-surface imaging in a single machine.
Parts still attached to a stamping strip should never be de-reeled for inspection — an on-line strip inspection machine reads defects between punching and reeling, so scrap never reaches the next station.
Finally, match the output. A single-disc machine screens 300–1,200 pcs/min depending on part size; conveyor and multi-inlet machines reach up to 2,500 pcs/min.

