Abstract: In order to reduce the consumption of cigarette paper and filter rods in cigarette manufacturing, a metering system was designed for ZJ112 cigarette maker. The system included a cigarette paper metering module and a filter rod counting module, and adopted high-speed counting, multi-sensor coordination and data conversion technologies to quantify the consumption of cigarette paper and filter rods with in a shift. The quantity data were uploaded to a host computer and written into the Historian database through InTouch. The system was tested on cigarette brand "Mount Tai (Red General)" manufacturing, the results showed that:1) The maximum relative error between the metered value and actual value of cigarette paper consumption was 0.059%, and that of filter rods was 0. 2) The system facilitated to further analysis of the unit consumptions of cigarette paper and filter rods and their consumption at machine shutdown. It was found that the both unit consumptions were positively correlated to the times of machine shutdown. The system provides technical supports for analyzing cigarette paper and filter rod consumption accurately and promoting machine efficiency.