Improving Pre-Roll Potency and Consistency with Jiko+ Automation

In the competitive world of pre-roll production, precision is profit. Even minor variations in concentrate placement or density can compromise potency, ruin burn quality, and damage consumer trust. This issue is widespread: a recent study by the University of Colorado Boulder published in Scientific Reports revealed that nearly 44% of cannabis flower products tested were mislabeled, with the vast majority overstating their THC potency.

As the demand for premium, high-potency “hash-holes” (donut-style joints) accelerates, manufacturers face a critical challenge: how to deliver artisanal quality and accurate potency, at an industrial scale.

Jiko+ Automation from Sorting Robotics addresses these challenges with precision “hash-hole” (donut-style) infusion. Jiko+ precisely measures and inserts concentrates into each pre-roll core, minimizing the inconsistencies of manual methods, cutting waste, and ensuring consistent potency across every batch. This guide explains how Jiko+ ensures consistent potency, quality, and efficiency in pre-roll production.

What Makes Jiko+ Unique (vs Jiko Standard)

The journey to consistent, high-potency pre-rolls starts with recognizing the limitations of traditional infusion methods. Many facilities still rely on manual or standard Jiko machines, where even small inconsistencies in concentrate placement quietly undermine quality. Over time, these precision gaps can lead to uneven potency, waste, and slower production.

Jiko+ addresses these hidden inefficiencies with targeted innovations that elevate potency, precision, and output reliability.

Designed for Hash-Hole Pre-Rolls

Manual or standard infusion often struggles to maintain the “donut hole” core accurately, leading to inconsistent potency. Jiko+ automates this process with precision, creating perfectly centred cores every time. By consistently placing concentrate within the joint’s center, it reduces variability, preserves the outer flower structure, and ensures every pre-roll delivers the intended consumer experience. Achieving this level of US-based production quality and scale allows manufacturers to eliminate the human error associated with manual infusion while maintaining the high-end "craft" appeal of a perfect hash hole.

Handles Thick, High-Viscosity Concentrates

Standard machines can jam or underperform with dense concentrates like rosin. Jiko+ solves this by precisely controlling heat and pressure, allowing smooth infusion even with high-viscosity extracts. This reduces waste, avoids production slowdowns, and ensures each pre-roll maintains consistent potency, no matter the concentrate type.

Superior Throughput

Throughput suffers when machines can’t keep up with demand. Jiko+ can infuse up to 1,200 pre-rolls per hour, far exceeding standard Jiko speeds. Eliminating bottlenecks allows facilities to scale efficiently while maintaining uniform quality, resulting in faster turnaround and higher operational ROI.

Precision in Concentrate Placement

Even minor inconsistencies in depth or placement impact potency and burn quality. Jiko+ ensures exact placement in every pre-roll, minimizing rejects and maximizing efficiency. The result is a consistent, reliable product that meets both regulatory standards and consumer expectations, every batch, every time.

Why Hash-Hole Pre-Rolls Are So Popular

Optimized infusion parameters in Jiko+ ensure that cannabinoid content remains consistent across every pre-roll in a batch, addressing a common challenge in cannabis production where THC levels can naturally vary by 4–7% within the same batch. 

By standardizing temperature, pressure, and infusion timing, the system minimizes human error and batch-to-batch variation. This precise control ensures consistent results for consumers and supports full regulatory compliance through accurate potency documentation for each production run.

Here’s why hash-hole pre-rolls stand out in potency, flavor, and consumer appeal.

High Potency Through Concentrate Core

The central hash-hole significantly increases cannabinoid content per pre-roll compared to traditional joints. By embedding the concentrate in the core, potency is more uniform, reducing variability across batches. This ensures that every joint provides a reliable effect, supporting consistent dosing for consumers. For manufacturers, it also minimizes waste, as every milligram of concentrate is accurately used within the pre-roll, maximizing product efficiency and quality.

Preserving Flavor and Terpene Profiles

Rosin and other concentrates in the hash hole core keep their full flavor and aroma, making each pre-roll taste rich and smooth. Unlike uneven or poorly infused joints, the donut style method preserves these delicate flavors. This is why connoisseurs prefer hash hole pre-rolls; they deliver a consistent, enjoyable smoking experience every time, giving a premium feel and high-quality product in every joint.

Consumer Appeal and Market Value

Donut style pre rolls are viewed as premium, craft products, which gives them strong market appeal. The visual wow factor of a filled core attracts consumers and creates excitement around the product. This allows brands to sell these joints at higher price points and appeal to more discerning customers. With consistent potency, flavor, and presentation, hash hole pre-rolls are a high-demand and profitable product in the competitive pre-roll market.

How Jiko+ Helps Maintain Consistent Pre-Roll Potency

Ensuring consistent potency is one of the biggest challenges in pre-roll production. Variations in concentrate placement or manual dosing can lead to uneven cannabinoid levels and unpredictable effects. Jiko+ addresses these challenges by automating the infusion process with precision controls, reducing human error, and supporting repeatable results. 

Careful control of each infusion step ensures consistent potency, reduces waste, and supports reliable results every batch.

Precise Dosing

Jiko+ uses advanced temperature and pressure controls to deliver an accurate and measured amount of concentrate into each pre-roll core. This precision ensures every joint contains the intended cannabinoid levels, reducing variability between batches. By automating dosing, the system eliminates the inconsistencies of manual methods and allows manufacturers to maintain predictable potency and a uniform consumer experience for each pre-roll.

Minimized Loss

Manual handling of concentrates can lead to spills, waste, and uneven distribution within the pre-roll. Jiko+ minimizes these losses by automating the infusion process and controlling the placement of focus precisely. This ensures more of the product reaches the pre-roll, reducing material waste, preserving potency, and improving overall operational efficiency while supporting more sustainable, cost-effective production practices.

Consistent Retention

Optimized infusion parameters in Jiko+ ensure that cannabinoid content remains consistent across every pre-roll in a batch. The system carefully standardizes temperature, pressure, and timing, minimizing human error and delivering reliable results from batch to batch. This precise control ensures consistent results for consumers and supports full regulatory compliance through accurate potency documentation for each production run.

Repeatability

Once a custom infusion profile or “recipe” is created in Jiko+, it can be reused across multiple batches to produce the same high-quality results. This repeatable process simplifies scaling operations, reduces trial-and-error during production, and ensures consistency in potency, flavour, and concentrate placement. Manufacturers benefit from standardized processes, improved reliability, and the ability to maintain premium product quality at higher production volumes. Understanding how automation improves infused pre-roll consistency is the key to transitioning from artisanal, small-batch struggles to a reliable, industrial-scale output that consumers can trust every time they purchase.

How Jiko+ Delivers Consistent Pre-Roll Potency

Jiko+ helps pre-roll manufacturers maintain more consistent potency by automating concentrate infusion. By controlling temperature, pressure, and dosing, the system reduces human error, limits waste, and supports reliable dosing across every batch. These capabilities make it easier to produce uniform, high-quality pre-rolls while maintaining control over product potency.

Here’s how Jiko+ supports precision, minimizes loss, and maintains consistent potency.

Precise Dosing

Jiko+ uses temperature and pressure controls to deliver a controlled amount of concentrate into the pre-roll core. This ensures each pre-roll receives a measured dose, supporting uniform cannabinoid content across batches. By reducing variability compared to manual methods, precise dosing helps manufacturers produce consistent pre-rolls, supporting predictable potency and a reliable consumer experience every time.

Minimized Loss

Automation in Jiko+ reduces waste and spillage that can occur during manual infusion. By controlling the infusion process, the system ensures more of the concentrate is effectively placed in the pre-roll core. Minimizing loss not only helps maintain potency but also improves efficiency, making the production process more resource-friendly while supporting consistent product quality.

Consistent Retention

By using defined infusion parameters and custom profiles, Jiko+ supports more consistent concentrate retention across batches. Operators can store settings for temperature, pressure, and dose timing, allowing the system to repeat the same process for each pre-roll. This helps maintain stable potency across multiple runs and contributes to more predictable product outcomes.

Repeatability

Jiko+ allows manufacturers to save custom infusion profiles, or “recipes,” in its LAKA system. Once a recipe is set, it can be reused for multiple batches, helping standardize production and ensuring consistent potency. This repeatable process supports scaling operations while maintaining control over each pre-roll’s cannabinoid content and overall product quality.

Efficiency and Throughput with Jiko+ in Pre-Roll Production

Jiko+ helps pre-roll manufacturers boost production efficiency by automating the infusion process. With higher throughput, reduced labor requirements, and precise dosing, it enables facilities to produce more consistent, high-quality pre-rolls while reducing waste. These efficiency gains can improve operational performance and support faster return on investment.

Jiko+ increases speed, lowers labor, reduces waste, and improves ROI in several ways:

Speed Gains

Jiko+ can make hundreds to over a thousand infused pre-rolls per hour, far more than manual methods can. This higher speed helps manufacturers keep up with growing demand while maintaining consistent quality. Automation of the infusion process helps eliminate production delays, enabling faster batch completion and more reliable scheduling.

Labor Reduction

With Jiko+, a single operator can manage the machine, eliminating much of the repetitive manual work involved in pre-roll infusion. This reduces labor costs and frees staff to focus on other production tasks. Automating manual steps also lowers the risk of human error, supporting consistent quality while allowing facilities to operate more efficiently with smaller teams.

Reduced Waste

Jiko+ reduces concentrate loss through precise dosing and minimal handling compared to manual infusion. Accurately placing the concentrate into the pre-roll core ensures more product is used efficiently. This helps maintain potency, improve material efficiency, lower operational costs, and support a more sustainable production process.

Faster ROI

With higher throughput and lower labour requirements, Jiko+ can help pre-roll manufacturers achieve a faster return on investment. Many facilities recover their investment within about 12 months. Improvements in efficiency, consistent results, and reduced waste help operations realize financial gains more quickly while maintaining high product quality.

Integration, Scaling, and Quality Assurance of Jiko+

Integrating Jiko+ into a production line helps manufacturers scale efficiently while maintaining consistent quality. Its modular design allows multiple units to work together, and real-time monitoring provides visibility into performance, throughput, and maintenance. Built-in quality checks and regulatory tracking ensure each batch meets high standards with minimal disruption. Leveraging robotics analytics to optimize cannabis operations allows team leads to turn that real-time visibility into actionable insights, ensuring that as more units are added, the overall throughput scales without increasing the error rate.

Seamless Line Integration

Jiko+ integrates smoothly into existing production lines alongside other automation solutions, enabling a fully automated workflow. This streamlined approach reduces manual handling, maintains consistent pre-roll quality, and allows operators to manage multiple processes efficiently without slowing overall production.

Modular Deployment for Scalability

The modular design of Jiko+ allows manufacturers to scale production by adding additional units or combining with other machines. This flexibility supports growing demand, ensures consistent efficiency, and allows facilities to expand capacity without disrupting ongoing operations or compromising product quality.

Real-Time Monitoring

The LAKA production data platform tracks performance, throughput, and maintenance in real time. Operators can monitor workflow, identify bottlenecks, and proactively schedule maintenance, ensuring smoother operations, consistent output, and reduced downtime across all integrated pre-roll production lines.

Built-In Quality Assurance

Jiko+ uses visual and sensor-based checks to detect inconsistencies or defects during production. These built-in quality measures help maintain consistent pre-roll standards, reduce waste, and give operators confidence that every batch meets defined specifications.

Regulatory Readiness

Data captured through LAKA supports batch tracking, potency reporting, and audit trails. This helps facilities remain compliant with industry regulations, simplifies inspection documentation, and ensures each batch can be reliably traced from production to final distribution.

Simplified Maintenance

Jiko+ features predictable cleaning cycles and a lighter maintenance burden. This design helps operators maintain consistent pre-roll quality, reduces downtime, and ensures the machine continues performing reliably over time, even in high-throughput production environments.

Challenges and Considerations When Implementing Jiko Plus

Implementing Jiko Plus can bring significant efficiency and consistency benefits, but it also requires careful planning. Manufacturers should consider factors such as upfront investment, operator training, maintenance schedules, and concentrate compatibility to ensure smooth integration. Utilizing seamless integration of Jiko, Stardust & Omni into production lines allows facility managers to bridge the gap between initial setup and long-term profitability, ensuring that every automated component works in harmony with existing workflows.

Tackling these challenges from the start ensures the system runs efficiently and delivers the best possible return on investment.

Initial Investment

Jiko+ is a high-capacity, purpose built automation system, so its upfront cost plus integration with existing lines can be significant. Manufacturers should carefully assess ROI based on projected production volume and expected savings to justify the investment.

Training Requirements

While the Jiko+ interface is relatively user friendly, operators still need hands-on training to set up and optimize “infusion profiles.” Proper training ensures your team can consistently run the machine and achieve optimal performance.

Maintenance Needs

Even though daily cleaning is light, Jiko+ requires scheduled maintenance: lubrication, part replacements, and periodic checks. These maintenance tasks are necessary to keep the system running reliably over time.

Maximize Consistent, High-Quality Pre-Roll Production with Jiko+

Jiko+ reflects Sorting Robotics’ commitment to delivering scalable, top-quality automation for the cannabis industry. The system enables manufacturers to achieve consistent potency, accurate concentrate placement, and reliable premium product quality with every pre-roll.

Manufacturers gain significant advantages with Jiko+, including uniform potency, repeatable results, higher throughput, reduced labor, and improved material efficiency. Real-time monitoring and data capture further support informed, compliant operations, ensuring every pre-roll meets exacting standards.

To experience these benefits, book a demo or request a free assessment with Sorting Robotics and discover how Jiko+ can transform your pre-roll production process.

Frequently Asked Questions

What types of cannabis concentrates are compatible with Jiko+?

Jiko+ works with meltable concentrates like live rosin, decarbed rosin, distillates, and other high-viscosity extracts, ensuring smooth, precise infusion into pre-roll cores without clogging or compromising potency.

Can Jiko+ handle different pre-roll sizes and formats?

Yes, Jiko+ supports various pre-roll formats, including cones, blunts, and straight tubes in multiple sizes, helping producers maintain consistent quality and potency across products.

Is it possible to reuse infusion “recipes” or profiles in Jiko+?

Jiko+ allows operators to save and reuse custom infusion profiles, standardizing temperature, pressure, and dosing for repeatable results across multiple batches, ensuring consistent potency and quality every time.

Does Jiko+ offer real-time monitoring and remote control?

Yes, the LAKA analytics platform provides real-time visibility into machine performance, throughput, and maintenance, enabling operators to monitor, adjust, and control production remotely for efficient workflow management.

What kind of maintenance does Jiko+ require?

Jiko+ requires light daily cleaning, along with scheduled maintenance such as lubrication, part replacement, and system checks, to keep the machine reliable and ensure consistent pre-roll quality over time.