Faces of Interface Featuring James Richardson
Born in Arizona but growing up in the rural area of Cotton City, New Mexico, James Richardson was only exposed to the opportunity of a career in engineering after moving back to Arizona. After graduating as his high school class Salutatorian in 1995, he started college in Eastern Arizona. He later moved to Mesa in 1999 where he took a…
Load Cell Test Protocols and Calibrations
In the Interface Load Cell Field Guide, our engineers and product design experts detail important troubleshooting tips and best practices to help test and measurement professionals understand the intricacies of load cells and applications for force measurement devices. In this post, our team has outlined some helpful advice for testing protocols, error sourcing and calibrations. The first step in creating test…
Interface Partners with Manufacturing Representative Firm GenTek
In a move that enhances its ability to expand premium force measurement solutions to a growing number of customers in the Southeast, Interface today announced a new partnership with manufacturer’s representatives GenTek Inc. GenTek focuses on providing technology solutions to strategic customers in a range of industries, from military and defense to aerospace and commercial sectors across the Southeastern United…
Test and Measurement for Electric Vehicles
Among the many technologies that are making a significant impact on our society over the last few years, very few compare to the impact of electrical vehicles. As the world addresses climate change, investments in electric vehicle technology have risen greatly across nearly all the world’s largest vehicle OEMs. Investments in this vehicle market segment are global. According to a…
Force Measurement Solutions for Mobility Markets
One of the tenets in addressing urban mobility is innovation. As populations grow around the world, addressing how people get from here to there is part of a challenge and opportunity. Investments are growing in this sector, as experts and designers look to how to increase efficiency and performance in vehicle markets. Interface has long been a supplier of test…
Understanding Uncertainty in Load Cell Calibration
In force measurement testing, accuracy is the most critical factor in ensuring the data you collect can help to identify challenges, failures and opportunities in the product design and development cycle. Here at Interface, we have mastered the art of load cell accuracy by employing a vertically integrated manufacturing process that allows us to control the development of our products…
ConvexBT Load Button Load Cell Featured Online at Sensor Tips
Interface’s newest product release, ConvexBT, is featured in the Sensor Tips, the respected online resource publication for electronics engineering challenges of today and tomorrow. Featured in the post “How can a load cell force sensor be used in increasingly smaller end products?“ Randy Frank notes: “A smaller form factor is frequently on the must have list for many next generation products.…
The Anatomy of a Load Cell
Have you ever stopped to think about what makes the things we use everyday work? At Interface, our engineers think about what makes up an Interface load cell on the production floor and in our design lab every day. Whether we are manufacturing a new load cell or speaking to a customer about how it can help solve their test…
Interface Customer Satisfaction Survey Results for October 2020
Two times a year, Interface conducts our formal Interface Customer Satisfaction Survey. The survey is sent to valued customers and partners to listen and learn. The results allows us to prioritize feedback on how we can continuously improve. It is paramount to Interface that as we engineer and build the world’s leading force measurement solutions, we earn our customer’s confidence by…
Faces of Interface Featuring Mark Bliss
For our newest edition of Faces of Interface, we had the opportunity to talk with Mark Bliss, senior application engineer, with our manufacturer’s representative, Minnesota Measurement Engineering. Minnesota Measurement Engineering (MNME) works across a wide variety of industries throughout Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Western Wisconsin, and Iowa. They help engineers specify sensing, testing, and measuring products that best fit…