Integrated Measurement Solutions Elevate Design and Enhance Functionality

In today’s fast-evolving innovation landscape, precision and accuracy are essential, especially when measuring force, torque, and weight. This applies to all phases of integrating sensors into new product designs and retrofitting existing equipment or components with measurement capabilities.

Interface, a pioneer in load cell design and integrated measurement devices, has been at the forefront of this innovation, offering cutting-edge solutions for diverse applications.

Our integrated measurement solutions ensure the safety and reliability of machines, products, and processes across various industries. We provide measurement devices for integration in sectors including aerospace, energy, medical and healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, and industrial automation. Our sensor technologies are seamlessly integrated into diverse products and machines, from lifting equipment to consumer goods. This adaptability ensures our solutions can be tailored to your unique requirements.

Why Choose Interface Load Cell Technology for Measurement Solutions?

Strain gage load cell technology provides precise, real-time force or weight measurement data for various applications. Integrating these devices, such as our Mini Load Cells, transforms new products, existing machines, and components into intelligent systems. Real-time data enables predictive maintenance, optimizes performance, and enhances safety. The load cell isn’t just a sensor; it’s the catalyst for intelligent design and functionality.

Our custom-designed measurement solutions seamlessly integrate into various applications, fostering innovation and ensuring reliability. Integrating sensors offers numerous advantages when the goal is to ensure that a product or part performs as designed, with reliability and durability. These include performance enhancements, increased safety, lifespan improvements, material and structural monitoring, and quality assurance.

Interface Integrated Solutions

Standard, Engineered-to-Order and Custom

Interface understands that every project is unique. We offer various load cells, including LowProfile models and multitudes of shear beams, bending beams, s-types, and load button designs for integration programs. This customization empowers you to get a measurement solution that meets your precise requirements and integration specifications.

Partnerships

Precision is the cornerstone of Interface’s products, which is one of the primary reasons we are preferred as an integration solutions provider. We work with our customers to design measurement products through all phases and iterations to create the best solution for their needs. We build long-term integration relationships by ensuring our sensors’ high quality, accuracy, and reliability. When their design requirements need an upgrade, we create the next version together. Many of Interface’s integration customers are decades-long partnerships.

Environmental Adaptability

Every integration has unique challenges. These measurement devices often operate in challenging conditions such as extreme temperatures, submersible situations, heavy vibrations, or exposure to harsh conditions. Interface designs its load cells to withstand these environments without compromising accuracy. For instance, many of their load cells come with built-in temperature compensation and overload protection. Our load pins and load shackles are ideal for ruggedized integrated solutions, such as lifts, subsea equipment, maritime, and heavy machinery.

Cranes Adopt Integrated System to Measure Performance

Interface’s integrated solutions are flexible and applied across multiple industries. From integration into hardware used for testing aircraft components to monitoring the accuracy of medical devices, Interface has a long history of creating sensors that fit our customers’ exact requirements.

A great example of integrated solutions in real-world situations is how Interface helped test and monitor a crane application. This heavy equipment manufacturer chose four Interface products to create an integrated solution for their industrial cranes. This fully integrated measurement system allowed the customer to obtain data from various forces and on different axes to test each part of the lifting mechanism. This data helps improve product quality and ensure user safety in operation, multiple environments, and worldwide. The products involved included:

• Stainless Steel Load Pins
• Tension Load Links
• Load Shackles
• WTS Modular Telemetry System Wireless Handheld Display

In an era where precision is the key to innovation, integrated measurement solutions from Interface offer unparalleled accuracy, reliability, and efficiency. As industries evolve, so will the need for advanced systems that can precisely measure force, torque, and weight. Here is a summary list of Interface products used for integrated measurement solutions.

• Low and High-Capacity Load Cells
• Column Compression Load Cells
• Compression-Only Load Cells
• Miniature Load Cells
• Column and Rod End Load Cells
• Load Cell Load Buttons
• S-Type and Beam Load Cells
• Sealed Load Cells
• Stainless Steel Load Cells
• Multi-Axis Sensors
• Wireless and Digital Outputs
• Torque Transducers
• Flange Style Torque Transducers
• Hex Drive and Square Drive Torque Transducers
• Load Pins
• Load Washers

We help our customers achieve this by seamlessly integrating our sensor technologies into their products, machines, parts, and process ecosystems. Benefits of partnering with Interface for integrated solutions:

• Experience
• Extension to Your Team
• Expertise in Engineering Integration and OEM Solutions
• Build Capacities and Capabilities
• Manufacture in US HQ
• Trusted Partner with a Winning Track Record
• Highly Customized Designs Balancing Cost and Capability

Whether you want to upgrade a product or machine design with sensing capabilities or embed a sensor into your latest invention, contact Interface Application Engineers to discuss the options in products and systems that can help you.

Embedding Sensors in Products Webinar Recap highlights many options for optimizing and enhancing products and equipment using sensor technologies. Check out the benefits outlined in our white paper, OEM Solutions: Turning an Active Component into a Sensor.