During the summer after my graduation from high school, I did some landscaping work for my uncle at his house. A few of my tasks included pulling out shrubs by tying them to a four-wheeler and speeding away, painting a chimney while suspended by a rope tied to a shoe horn and dredging the depths of a water channel to make the channel deep enough for a pontoon boat. All of those tasks were equally ridiculous, but the channel-dredging took the cake in terms of unpleasantness. I don’t know if you’ve ever smelled the bottom of a lake before, but take my word for it that there are smells out there that are worse than the worst smell you ever recall smelling.

What was worse than the smell, though, was the redistribution of the dregs. It had to be done by hand, shovelful after shovelful. My uncle decided that the slop from the bottom of the lake should be placed on his lawn, which at that point was barren, because he thought it would support grass growth (how that turned out is another story). The problem for me was that I was expected to distribute the material evenly. Humans just aren’t designed to do this. This is why humans have designed products to do it for them.

Vibratory process equipment is celebrated in the materials handling and processing industries because it is capable of evenly distributing large amounts of products in large quantities without interruption. I’ll admit that vibratory feeders wouldn’t necessarily have been appropriate for the task I was doing, they save similar headaches in materials handling processes throughout industry. Because they are easy to control, can operate on a continuous or semi-continuous basis and streamline materials handling processes, vibratory process equipment is invaluable in industry.