From construction and manufacturing to logistics and healthcare, the importance of efficient and secure lifting operations cannot be overstated. Embracing sensor technologies is crucial in achieving optimal results.
In recent years, cutting-edge equipment using force sensor technologies has sparked a revolution in the field of lifting solutions, empowering operators, manufacturers and equipment designers with unprecedented precision and control. By seamlessly integrating force sensors into lifting equipment like cranes, hoists, robotics and machines, industries possess the ability to accurately measure and monitor the forces exerted during every lifting operation, elevating productivity and ensuring the highest levels of safety.
Interface Lifting Solution Products:
Our load pins, load shackles, and tension links provide precise load measurement capabilities, allowing operators to accurately determine the weight of the load being lifted. This information is crucial for ensuring that the lifting equipment remains within safe working limits and prevents overloading situations that could lead to accidents or equipment failure. Interface sensors provide vital force data to identify patterns, detect anomalies, and predict potential issues with lifting equipment and other lifting applications.
The Transformation in Lifting Success
Interface’s force sensor technologies are a necessity in innovative lifting solutions, offering a wide array of benefits and applications. Interface’s load cells, load pins, load shackles and tension links that are strategically embedded in lifting devices, such as cranes, hoists, and robotic arms, measure the forces experienced during the lifting process with high accuracy. By employing our force sensors, operators can obtain real-time feedback on the weight, tension, and pressure exerted on the lifting equipment, allowing for better load management and preventing overloading or potentially hazardous situations.
Our sensor technologies have significantly transformed the way heavy loads are managed on the line, in the warehouse, on the dock, for transportation and in industry specific applications. Multiple lifting activities, from hospital lifts to robotic arms used in packaging, all can achieve enhanced safety, increased efficiency, and improved maintenance practices. The implementation of these technologies marks a transformative step forward in the quest for more precise and controlled lifting operations, ensuring a safer and more productive future across various industries. Check out our new Lifting Solutions Brochure for more information.
Lifting Applications:
- Bridge Construction
- Crane hoisting
- Loading and unloading ships, trucks, or airplanes
- Pallet stacking
- Mining and extraction
- Offshore equipment transportation
- Turbine Installation
- Construction
- Railway lifting and positioning
- Cargo handling
- Patient Hoisting
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The Importance of Load Cells in Oil and Gas
/in Blog /by Jamie GlassInterface load cells are used in many facets of oil and gas, including to ensure safe lifting, enhance equipment integrity, provide accurate measurements in field operations, and even assist with optimal storage tank management. Our energy solutions include load cells that are used on rigs, downhole projects, extraction tools, and field support systems. We offer products ideal for harsh environments, extreme temperatures, and even submersible projects. Learn about our dry cell technology and IPCD product for downhole operations.
Load Cells Elevate Gantry Crane Performance
/in Blog /by Jamie GlassInterface load cells, load pins, tension links, wireless telemetry systems, and instrumentation devices are used for gantry crane safety monitoring, alert systems, overloading protection, retrofitting old equipment, and accurately measuring the tension, force, and weight during lifting operations.
Seaside Ports are Optimizing Efficiency and Safety Using Interface Sensor Technologies
/in Blog /by Jamie GlassInterface supplies measurement solutions to infrastructure and equipment makers for seaside ports, global trade shipping companies, and waterway terminals that heavily rely on quality measurement solutions. Our sensor technologies are used in cranes, gantry systems, lifting reach stackers, hoisting equipment, winches, anchors and mooring lines, plus weighbridges and scales. Ports turn to Interface for accurate load cells, load pins, shackles, tensions links, submersible solutions and wireless instrumentation.
A Great Force for Crane and Hoist Solutions
/in Blog /by Jamie GlassLCM-made products in Interface’s 35,000-plus catalog include Load Pins, Tension Links, and Shackles. This includes options for standard products, engineered-to-order, completely custom, ATEX, submersibles, and wireless solutions. Interface and recently acquired LCM Systems offer our customers powerful and diverse measurement devices for hoisting, winching, lifting, subsea, infrastructure, and industrial manufacturing applications.
Year in Review of Top Interface Solutions and Applications
/in Blog /by Jamie GlassInterface is at the forefront of innovative use cases and applications, providing quality devices worldwide to gather precision measurements. Interface unveils the top industry solutions, product use cases and applications that define force measurement in 2023.
Digging Into Interface Mining Industry Solutions
/in Blog /by Jamie GlassInterface products are essential for designing, testing, and utilizing mining equipment, machines, components, and systems. Our load cells, instrumentation, torque transducers, multi-axis sensors, load shackles, and tension links are used in tools and equipment for the mining industry. Interface measurement solutions help to optimize mine structural supports, digging equipment, and lifting processes to reduce wear and tear on equipment and prevent overloading, which can lead to costly downtime and maintenance.
Interface Engineered Solutions for Lifting Webinar Recap
/in Blog /by Jamie GlassInterface webinar Engineered Solutions for Lifting details force, torque, and weighing measurement products in lifting equipment like cranes, movers, rigging, simulators, drones, and medical devices. During this recorded webinar, experts provide tips for lifting, technical considerations, industry applications, load cells, instrumentation product reviews, and engineering recommendations for troubleshooting and preventing overloading. Sensors are central in lifting equipment to maintain safety, quality, compliance, and efficiency. Interface provides a useful product selection online resource for lifting applications. Watch to learn more.
Universal Load Cells 101
/in 101 Series, Blog /by Jamie GlassInterface Universal Load Cells offer the ability to measure both tension and compression forces. They are versitile force measurement solutions used for all types of applications that need to measure force, weight and shear. Interface’s Model 1200 and 1201 Series IO-Link Universal Load Cells are pancake style load cells that are IO-Link compatible with an open standard serial communication protocol that allows for the bi-directional exchange of data from sensors and devices.
Outlining Force Solutions for Structural Outrigging
/in Blog /by Jamie GlassInterface provides load cells and wireless technologies for structural outrigging. Force measurement sensor technologies provide high accuracy measurement of the outrigging equipment in test and actual use. The applications range from integrating sensors into outrigger equipment to using load cells for real-time monitoring of physical structures using outrigger supports. Interface load cells are used by outrigging engineers, civil engineers and heavy equipment manufacturers, oil and gas, construction industry and marine equipment companies.
Engineered Solutions for Lifting Webinar
/in Virtual Event /by Jamie GlassInterface’s technical webinar Engineered Solutions for Lifting details measurement devices used in lifting equipment, machines, and vehicles to improve operations and safety. Interface load cells and instrumentation are used to operate cranes, hoist heavy objects, and measure forces in infrastructure projects. Interface experts answer how load cells are used in safety monitoring for lifting equipment. Learn about Interface sensor products suited for integration into existing equipment and test and measurement projects.