Considerations for Steel, Stainless Steel and Aluminum Load Cells
In the world of force measurement and load cells, one size certainly does not fit all. There are thousands of different options for size and force ranges, and our load cell configurations vary widely based on the requirements of your project. Whether you are designing and testing products for the medical industry, or measuring force deep within a mine shaft,…
Interface Steps in to Support Medical Industry COVID-19 Innovations
The COVID-19 outbreak has hit everyone hard and many industries are rushing to adjust to this new world. One of the industries most impacted by the outbreak has been the medical sector. Hospitals are in a position of running dangerously low on supplies and equipment to treat the influx of patients coming through the doors for vital treatment. Fortunately, global…
Faces of Interface Featuring Ken Bishop
From the very beginning, force measurement has been a major part of Ken Bishop’s life. Growing up in Anaheim, California, his father worked for a company called Ormond, Inc., which produced load cells, rocket thrust stands, weighing products and scales. He got to know the people his father worked with and the cool technology they were working on. Therefore, it…
Interface Solutions for Robotics and Industrial Automation
As the manufacturing world continues to push towards the 4.0 Industrial Revolution, critical technology is necessary to ensure facilities are running as efficiently as possible. With advancements toward fully or semi-autonomous factories and robotics, manufacturers need to have total trust in their hardware and software to perform with precision in the assigned tasks. This requires collecting accurate and real-time data…
Load Button Load Cells 101
Manufactured devices, technology advancements and product designs are getting smaller and smaller as innovations demand less space to do more for their consumers. As engineers are designing products with miniaturized components, they also need high quality test and measurement solutions that produce accurate results within these smaller testing spaces. Interface has created a series Load Button Load Cells to meet…
Hazardous Environment Solutions from Interface
There are hundreds of thousands of engineers and manufacturers that spend their days working in hazardous environments. Whether its operating inside of facilities with large machines with intricate moving parts, working hundreds of feet in the air repairing a bridge, or deep within a mine shaft, these professionals put themselves in danger every day by the nature of their work.…
Introduction to Interface Application Notes
Interface has a long history of sharing valuable resources to help our fellow colleagues and customers with various use cases for test and measurement applications. Whether it be with our in-depth technical library, the Interface Load Cell Field Guide, free access to design files for our breadth of products, or industry case studies highlighting how our customers use Interface products.…
Faces of Interface Featuring Randy White
Randy White’s passion for the engineering and aerospace industry began to grow at an early age. His father served in the United States Air Force, where he was the Chief Mechanic on a B52 in Vietnam. Growing up in Princeton, Illinois, Randy’s father imparted his mechanical and technical wisdom upon his son, which was developed during his time serving in…
Interface Customer Survey for Spring 2020
Even during our “new normal” of operating during a pandemic, we know it’s important to reach out to our customer’s to let them know we want to hear from them. As we take extra precautions to operate as an essential service during these times, we want to gauge how we are doing in the eyes of those that are depending…
Evolving Urban Mobility Sector for Test and Measurement
Every day it seems we are inching closer to the Jetson’s utopia of flying cars, floating cities and robot butlers. Technology is evolving to the point where robotics and computers control most aspects of travel and mobility. That requires a lot of testing and dependency on accurate measurements for what is on the road and what is flying up above.…