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Craig Macklin

Is Improper Densification on Your Bulk Bag or Box Filler Costing You Money?

By Craig Macklin

When considering a Bulk Bag Filler or new Bag or Box Filling system, you will inevitably be presented with the option for densification.  Most typically, densification options from the filler or system manufacturers utilize industrial vibration under the container being filled to settle, compact, or densify the material.  As discussed in one of my previous blogs, the act of vibrating material to fit more in the container can be an excellent investment to reduce container and shipping costs and make bulk bags more stable and resilient to tipping during storage or transport. 

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Derek Stake

How to Save Cash in the Long Term: Protect Your Fabricated Vibratory Equipment

By Derek Stake

Great news! You decided to invest in customized fabricated vibratory equipment. Now it’s installed, working great, and you’re no longer dealing with costly, time-consuming material flow problems.  

What’s next? 

If you have worked with equipment in the past, you know that purchasing and installation is half of the battle. Whether you’re working with a vibratory feederscreenertable, or any of our vibratory equipment options, maintenance is crucial to protect your investment long term. That’s why our team of experts is here to make this process easy! We compiled the list below so you know what to inspect, how often to inspect it, and what type of damage to look for when conducting regular equipment checks.   

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Craig Macklin

5 Cool Industrial Vibrator Applications in 2020

By Craig Macklin

Industrial Vibrators and Vibratory Equipment can be used for so many different purposes that we never get bored working on customer inquiries to help them.  We get to work across dozens of industries with hundreds of material types and countless unique conditions, requirements, and problems.  So, it is fun to reflect on applications and problems we’ve solved near the end of a year.  This posting is just that, a moment of reflection and sharing.  Enjoy!! 

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Jack Steinbuch

How to Choose the Best Isolator for Your Vibratory Equipment

By Jack Steinbuch

Here at The Cleveland Vibrator Company, we’ve committed ourselves to providing the best solution to your material flow problems for over 95 years. We like to say, sometimes “off-the-shelf” is just plain “off,” which is why our goal is to build a tailor-made solution to fit perfectly into your operation and application. Whether you need specific dimensions to fit a vibratory table into your existing process, require vibratory screen deblinding technologies, or have particular isolators you would like on your vibratory feeder; we offer design flexibility for our fabricated equipment to fit your application.

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Mike Stratis

Does Industrial Vibrator Jargon Get You Down? The Vibration Experts Got You Covered!

By Mike Stratis

When it comes to terminology and lingo within the vibration industry, many times there are multiple names for the same piece of equipment. We will review what those are and explain what they mean.

Bin or hopper vibrators have many subcategories of vibrator types, just within this single product line itself. Let’s break it down.

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Air vibrator or pneumatic vibrators can be the following:

  • Piston type
  • Ball type
  • Turbine type
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Jack Steinbuch

Reduce the Noise Level on Your Vibratory Equipment

By Jack Steinbuch

OSHA specifies that a hearing conservation program should be in place when “noise exposure is at or above 85 decibels averaged over 8 working hours, or an 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA)”. This can be an issue for some vibratory equipment. However, we have selections available that will reduce noise levels which can result in many positives for your facility (OSHA).

For example, did you know investing in noise-reducing vibration can lead to an increase in productivity and overall safety? High noise levels can lead to short- and long-term physical damage including ringing ears, temporary changes in hearing, and long-term hearing damage or loss. But, less commonly known, it can also put a strain on your pocket by reducing productivity, contributing to poor communication and concentration, and can even contribute to workplace accidents by limiting your employee’s ability to understand speech (OSHA).

Since there is a wide variety of vibratory equipment, for this blog, we will focus on “brute force” vibratory equipment.  The vibrating body is directly installed on the equipment and is driven by a vibrator or dual motors, and the supporting structure is isolated from the vibrating body. Now let us look at potential ways to reduce their noise level:

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How to Adhere to Social Distancing Protocols & Promote Safety During a Pandemic Using Vibration 

By Cleveland Vibrator Team

In this pandemic, manufacturers have been called on to help make items critical to stopping the spread of, or help with the treatment of, the virus.  Namely, our nation needs an increased focus on the manufacturing of PPE, cleaning products, and ventilators.  Well, we at Cleveland Vibrator Company are a manufacturer. However, we don’t have the capability to make masks, sanitizers, or ventilators.  We are proud to be deemed essential and contributing to keeping the production and transportation of key goods intact.  But we want to be doing more to directly contribute to stopping the spread.  So, we were inspired to think of products and projects that have helped customers reduce the density of workers in a small area and could now apply to enable safe distancing on processing and production floors.  Here is a couple: 

Application #1: Bulk Food Packaging 

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Production conveyor line without the use of vibratory equipment – Cleveland Vibrator Company

In packaging bulk foods such as frozen onion rings, bagels, or meat patties, typically there is a step between the box filling station and the close and seal station to settle the product.  When the box gets filled with products, especially odd-sized items, the product tends to cone so that amount of product that by weight is supposed to fill the box, is in a mound that exceeds the height of the box.  Often, this settling is handled manually by workers standing shoulder to shoulder at the conveyor between the filling and close and seal to shake the boxes and get the products evenly settled.     Read More…
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What Is Fabricated Equipment Design Flexibility?

By CVC Team

Typically flexibility is a good thing, both in business and athletics as well as life in general.  For Cleveland Vibrator, flexibility often means having a number of choices available to solve a bulk material problem.  Our line of pneumatic vibrators ranges from the small VM-25 piston vibrator to the huge 1900 single impact unit and about everything in between to include ball vibrators, turbine vibrators, air cushion piston vibrators with friction reducing coatings for long life, to a complete line of pneumatic foundry vibrators.  If the best solution involves electric vibrators, Cleveland Vibrator has wide range of rotary electric vibrators available with operating frequencies between 900 and 3600 rpms with force outputs from 30 to over 40,000 lbf!  That’s some flexibility for sure.

What is fabricated equipment design flexibility? 

Designing Fabricated Vibratory Equipment that is built-to-spec requires a large amount of unique options best suited to fit the application and process requirements. Design flexibility is key for a successful install of vibratory equipment into an existent process. Read More…
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Mike Stratis

Vibratory Compaction Tables: 5 Things to Consider When Working Within A Budget

By Mike Stratis

Are you looking to add a vibratory compaction table to your facility’s manufacturing and shipping processes? If yes, great! We’d be glad to help put our experience to work and point you in the right direction. There are a few things to review during the buying process, each of which can impact the equipment’s overall cost.

For starters, what can a vibratory compaction table do? We commonly see the following reasons to include a table:

  1. Flatten the mound build-up, or pile, of material made from the filling station discharging into the center of the Gaylord, tote, box, or similar type packaging container
  2. Compact and stabilize bulk bags, FIBCs, or super sacks for easier stacking and handling before storage or shipment
  3. Fully or semi-automate packaging lines by integrating with rollers sections (CDLR and gravity) or belt conveyors
  4. Fill, weigh, and compact material
  5. Remove air bubbles in molds and cast products for improved structural and surface finish
  6. Lower labor hours and costs for packaging and processing lines
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Unique Design Options Available for Specific Vibratory Compaction Table Applications

By CVC Team

Recently on a long weekend, I took the “Behind the Scenes Tour” of the C.F. Martin guitar factory in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.  During the tour, the six of us in my group got to see pretty much the whole guitar building process from wood coming in the back door to the final setup of the completed instrument.  Along the way we spent a few minutes talking with the guy that actually hand selects the wood for all the Custom Shop guitars, the customer works with a Martin guitar distributor, customizes an instrument, and starts the process.  This gentleman reviews the order’s specifications and gets to look through Martin’s selection of some of the most beautiful wood you’d ever want to see to find just the right set to match up with the order.  Custom shop orders start with the basic guitar body style and build on from there, sort of like what Cleveland Vibrator does with its product line.  Cleveland Vibrator is very customer-driven; the customer knows their business, process, and goals, Cleveland Vibrator asks questions, listens, and often conducts testing, then offers a solution to accomplish those goals.  Similar to Martin Guitars on the “custom build your guitar” portion of their website, modifications to Cleveland Vibrators products are available.

FA Flat Deck Vibratory TableA good example of a product that is often modified by customer requirements is the vibratory table.  Basically, a table is designed to vibrate linearly in the vertical direction.  From this very basic concept, there is almost an infinite number of options and variables available to accomplish the customer’s goal, regardless of how simple or Read More…
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