Electric vibrating motors have a bigger impact on your life than you might think. You may not realise it, but many of the items you use every day will have come into contact with one during the manufacturing process.

These motors can be found in fields as diverse as food, chemical and plastics, but it is in the manufacturing and construction industries where these motors find particular application. They are commonly used for hopper evacuation, producing foundry mouldings and for vibrated product flow assistance.

Vibrating hoppers and vibrating feeders are widely used in manufacturing to transport both large bulky material and smaller components. This method of transportation is preferred because the vibration working together with gravity is particularly effective at carefully moving materials when compared to more labour intensive manual techniques.

Vibration has proven to be particularly good at positioning small components to ready them to be gripped mechanically by automated equipment. This technique is commonly seen in the area of electronics assembly where tubes of ICs are added to a machine feeder by an operator and are then vibrated along the feeder and into position, ready for the machine head to capture them and place them into position on the printed circuit board.

A similar idea can be seen on a larger scale in the construction industry. Vibrating screens are frequently employed to separate bulk materials by size. Aggregates, such as gravel, sand and crushed rock, can be sifted using vibrating screens, a task that would be highly labour intensive if conducted any other way.

Another vital task electric vibrating motors perform in the construction industry is compacting the soil in the foundations of cities' rail and road infrastructure and even in the foundations of the buildings people live in.

Some building materials rely more on electric vibrating motors than others to ensure their safety. Concrete is a well established building material, but if it does not properly settle in the form-work, pockets of trapped air and excess water can be left. These air pockets will cause defects and ultimately compromise the strength of the finished product. By vibrating the concrete before it sets, all of the air and water can be forced out of the wet concrete mix, leaving it to settle properly.

Contact a company like VSS - Vibration Systems & Solutions (Australia) for more information about electric vibrating motors and their benefits in various industries today.

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