Smart Precious Metals Vault

The challenge

• Vault operations are manual, labor-heavy, and risky; errors are expensive.

• Workforces are aging — in many vaults fewer than 30% of staff are under 50.

• Full inventory counts take hours and tie up the whole team.

How it works

• Intake — automated intake with vision + weighing encodes form, ID, and weight.

• Store — modular storage units scale up or down to the site.

• Order — the head-office system generates pick / pack / outbound orders automatically.

• Fulfill — smart picking, packing, and outbound via hoist, gantry robot, and transport units.

• Inventory — "what you see is what you get" visual management plus a sampling module with full trace.

Key capabilities

• Vision + weighing monitor encoding, form, and weight through intake and daily operation.

• Five smart modules — Smart Combining, Smart Transfer, Smart Allocation, Smart Shelving, Smart Demand.

•  Labor efficiency — the pick area runs with ~2 operators; accounting needs ~2 after digitalization.

• Inventory speed — at a regional vault deployment, a full count dropped from ~6 hours to ~30 minutes.

• Risk & cost — eases aging-workforce pressure and cuts physical strain and error exposure.

• Modular & scalable storage that grows or shrinks with the site.

Proof points

• Operating at a regional precious-metals vault in eastern China (Shaoxing), with measured inventory time cut from ~6h to ~30min.

• Integrates with the bank's next-generation head-office system for automated order generation.