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Interface supplies products and solutions to innovators, engineers, builders and testing pros around the world. Our customers work in aerospace, automotive, energy, medical, industrial automation industries and test labs. If you are looking for inspiration or ideas, check out our solutions by industry. Our experts are available to help you get exactly what you need for measured success!

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Amusement Thrill Ride Engineering Needs Force Measurement

Theme parks and entertainment venues depend on sophisticated mechanical engineering to create immersive experiences while adhering to strict structural regulations. Safety and design engineers require precise measurements of force, torque,...

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Sensors Qualify Space Simulations Before Leaving Earth

The space industry is experiencing a renaissance driven by commercial ventures, ambitious government exploration programs, and expanding research initiatives that are extending humanity’s reach beyond Earth. As mission complexity increases,...

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University of Waterloo LARS Project Redefines Sonography Application

Sonographers must consistently apply and maintain precise force during imaging, often for extended periods, leading to high rates of physical strain and injury from repetitive motion and sustained pressure. The...

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Transforming Warehouses into Data-Driven Hubs

Warehouses rely heavily on automation and efficiency. Sensor technologies provide crucial data to transform manual processes into streamlined, automated systems. Measurement data allows advanced warehouse management systems to monitor performance,...

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Autonomous Systems in Harsh Environments Require Exact Force Measurement

As autonomy advances beyond controlled environments, engineers are increasingly deploying autonomous systems in extreme and unstructured conditions, including deep underwater, rugged industrial terrain, and high-load mechanical operations. As these systems...

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Digging Into Mining Advancements Using Interface Solutions

The global mining industry is experiencing a major shift as demand for rare earths and critical minerals like lithium, nickel, and cobalt grows. Rare earths are used in many modern...

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Smart Scales Embrace High-Accuracy Sensor Technologies

Advances in force measurement drive the technological evolution of scales. While traditional mechanical scales were limited to simple weighing, modern force sensors such as load cells have enabled many new...

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Textile Industry Transformation Requires Precision

The textile industry is undergoing a monumental transformation. Faced with surging global demand and an urgent need to modernize processes and significantly reduce waste, manufacturers are under immense pressure to...

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Sensor Technologies Advance Function in Varied Robot Types

As robots take on increasingly complex tasks from delicate surgical incisions to autonomous navigation in unpredictable environments, real-time, multi-dimensional force measurement is essential. The failure costs vary significantly by application,...

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Sensor-Driven Advancements Optimize Manufacturing

Modern manufacturing’s trajectory is undeniably toward greater automation, precision, and safety. To fully realize the potential of these advancements, integrating cutting-edge technologies at every stage of the machinery life cycle...

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Elevating Esports and Gaming Hardware and Venues

The esports and gaming industry has undergone an explosive transformation, evolving from a recreational pastime into a global entertainment and competitive powerhouse. This evolution requires a sophisticated infrastructure, including high-performance...

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The Force Behind Accurate Center of Gravity Testing

An object’s center of gravity (CoG) is the point where its weight is evenly distributed, functioning as a balancing point crucial for stability and performance. Accurate CoG measurement is essential...

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Advancing Medical Device Design, Testing, and Performance

Precision in medical device design, testing, and functionality is paramount. Medical devices, including robotic surgical tools, prosthetics, and diagnostic equipment, require precision, accuracy, and durability to ensure patient safety and...

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Force Sensor Applications in Heavy Machinery Testing and Monitoring

Interface heavy machinery manufacturers require real-time force, torque, and weight measurements. The challenges they look to address when designing and assembling these machines range from accurate capacity measurements to overload...

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Ensuring Certainty in Testing Labs with Precision Force Measurement

Test and measurement are the bedrock of engineering, manufacturing, product development, and research. Testing labs are where parts, components, and products are rigorously tested to determine quality, reliability, safety, durability,...

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Gopher Motorsports Takes Force Measurement Optimization to the Track

The automotive industry, especially in high-performance vehicles, is extremely detail-oriented, in which minor optimizations can go miles to make a positive difference in quality, reliability, and safety. For this reason,...

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Interface Supports Incredible Wind Energy Innovation

Energy innovation, in pursuit of clean energy and sustainability, is among the most critical areas of technological and scientific change for our planet. Organizations, scientists, and engineers around the world...

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Accelerating Automotive Excellence with Interface Testing Lab Solutions

In the world of test and measurement labs, automotive testing labs have been positively impacting consumers since the early inventions of moving vehicles. In fact, the automotive testing lab known...

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Vertical Farming on Earth and in Space

As we look towards the stars as a potential new frontier for human life, there are countless innovations to sustain life from these explorations. One of the most critical is...

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Advancements in Robotics and Cobots Using Interface Sensors

Sophisticated robotics use cases are growing due to robust investments in innovation and capabilities enhanced by sensors. The applications are universal across industries. Robotics are valuable for helping with two...

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Interface Delivers for Consumer Products

There are many phases and requirements that ensure consumer product performance, safety, and reliability. Force measurement devices validate and monitor products from concept to use. Sensor technologies, including Interface torque...

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Interface Sensor Technologies Enables IoT Capabilities

Across every manufacturing and electronics discipline in the world, organizations are trying to connect devices through the Internet. Many of these innovations are defined by an industry known as Internet...

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Interface Solutions for Growing Green Energy

Green energy investment is driving demands in renewals and to address climate change. Billions of dollars of infrastructure for alternative energies and innovations dependent on alternate sources like electric vehicles...

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Cranes and Lifting

There are countless applications that utilize lifting forces, from industrial equipment like cranes and forklifts to robotics used in manufacturing and medical devices. Force measurement sensors improve safety and the...

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Accuracy Matters for Weighing and Scales

Force measurement and force sensing play a significant role in most manufactured products today. The production of these goods frequently utilizes load cells and torque transducers in one or more...

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Interface Measures Fitness Equipment with Extreme Accuracy

Interface’s specialty is engineering force measurement solutions for testing and monitoring performance of parts and products that move and create force. One of the industries where performance and measurement is...

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Airplane Static Testing

Force measurement is a critical component in a wide variety of tests in the aerospace industry. This is because, force measurement tests are used from the design and development process,...

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Infrastructure Projects Rely on Interface

From dams to roads and bridges, the infrastructure industry is the backbone of our society and the need for sensor technologies used in the development and monitoring of these structures...

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Serving the Maritime Industry

Interface has been a longtime leader in the maritime industry. From hydrofoil testing to yacht rigging inspection, and even on the enormous cranes used on shipping docks, we provide solutions...

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Interface Solutions Used in Growing Agriculture Innovation

Agriculture remains at the heart and soul of American industry. Today’s version of the cultivating plants and managing livestock looks dramatically different than past decades of working the land. Technological...

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Coil Tubing Load Cells

Since 1968, Interface has been making world class low profile load cells. Interface has applied that expertise in creating our model 3400 family of coil tubing load cells. The 3400...

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Launching into Orbit with Interface

Space organizations play a critical role in allowing humanity to re-imagine the realm of existence—and no one understands this better than NASA. NASA’s latest efforts have been centered around human...

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Monitoring the Seismic Force of a Suspension Bridge

The array of use cases of force measurement are wide-ranging across many industries. Interface Mini Load Cells are frequently used to measure minute forces in precision medical devices, while our...

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Force Measurement is Reducing Waste and Automating the Consumer Packaging Industry

When we think about force measurement and its relation to product development, we often consider the aerospace, automotive or industrial industry. However, many of Interface’s customers use load cells and...

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Interface Ensures Premium Accuracy and Reliability for Medical Applications

Interface supports customers in some of the most hazardous and highly-regulated industries in the world, including aerospace and defense, industrial, automotive and medical. Although each market sector has its own...

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Automation and Robotics Demands Absolute Precision

One of the most significant trends occurring in product development across nearly every industry today is automation and the use of robotics to supplement human workers. The ability to implement...

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Force Measurement for Space Travel

Space travel is one of the most intriguing pursuits in modern culture and enormous investments have been made to reach the dream of navigating the final frontier. From government to...

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Aerospace and Defense

Highly regulated, complex, and vital industries rely on Interface for value, reliability, and accuracy in the full line of products we offer. Interface supplies precision force and torque measurement devices...

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Protecting Ultra HD Monitors

With the rising popularity of Ultra HD and 4K format video monitors, testing for video output quality is critical. These screens have a resolution of 3840×2160—four times the number of...

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Interface’s Crucial Role in Vehicle and Urban Mobility Markets

Our sensor technologies, including precision load cells and torque transducers, have been used in the design and testing of hundreds of thousands of vehicles including major automotive manufacturers and their...

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White Papers

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Interface Load Cell Field Guide

The creation of this instructional guide, Interface Load Cell Field Guide, was driven by a statement in Interface’s mission to always go above and beyond. We believe this informative reference is a helpful resource from the company that is recognized as pioneers...

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Eccentric Loading Analysis for SuperSC S-Type Miniature Load Cell White Paper

Interface introduced a revolutionary new product in our miniature load cell line in 2022. The product series is our SuperSC S-Type Load Cells, known as models SSC. The SuperSC (SSC) models are part of our family of shear s-cells. Traditionally, the s-cells...

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A Comparison of Torque Measurement Systems White Paper

Over the past 20 years, non-contact rotary torque measurement systems have become indispensable, especially for high rpm or long duration testing that damages transducers with bearings. To meet these needs, several systems have been offered by different manufacturers including the AxialTQ™ system...

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Interface Pressure Compensated Downhole Load Cell White Paper

The downhole environment poses many challenges for well-drillers, operators, tool-string designers, and other engineers creating value in the oil and gas industry. Making force measurements in particular poses some real challenges, and while there are solutions available, they fall short in performance,...

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Building a Championship Race Car

Interface takes great pride in being a leading solutions provider for these applications. Whether it’s for NASCAR, IndyCar, or even the amateur level, engineers rely on Interface. This white paper dives into force measurement as a vital requirement of the automotive industry...

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Torque Measurement Primer

This white paper was written by Interface's Keith Skidmore, and focuses on the basics of torque transducers. What is a torque transducer? Depending on the type, either a reaction or static torque transducer measures torque without rotating. This white paper dives deeper...

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Extending Transducer Calibration Range by Extrapolation

This white paper studies the concept of extrapolating the partial capacity calibration to full capacity, possibly thereby providing an increase in confidence in the extended range. Extrapolating is similar to forecasting and that idea helps one realize the liability of it. But...

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Shunt Calibration for Dummies – a Reference Guide

Shunt calibration is a technique for simulating strain in a piezo-resistive strain gage Wheatstone bridge circuit by shunting one leg of the bridge. Learn more in this white paper, as Interface experts in load cells and calibration detail essentials in shunt calibration.

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OEM Solutions Turning an Active Component into a Sensor

Interface create OEM custom force measurement devices that turn active components into sensors. Our new white paper details how it works, types of sensor technologies utilized by manufacturers and how real-time feedback improves product quality and reliability.

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Development of a Modular Fretting Wear and Fretting Fatigue Tribometer for Thin Steel Wires

Accuracy is fundamental in force measurement testing and precision is priceless. Gain a deeper understanding of the contributors to load cell accuracy in this new must-read technical white paper from the leaders in force.

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ConvexBT – The Most Innovative Load Button Load Cell

The revolutionary ultra-precision line of ConvexBT Load Button Load Cells uniquely uses multi-point calibration for testing force on miniaturized products and within confined spaces where accuracy is paramount to success and safety.

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Contributing Factors To Load Cell Accuracy

Accuracy is fundamental in force measurement testing and precision is priceless. Gain a deeper understanding of the contributors to load cell accuracy in this new must-read technical white paper from the leaders in force.

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Our industry experts partner with you to create unique solutions

Our skilled Applications Engineers help solve application solutions all for load, torque, multi-axis and force measurement needs. This additional service will reduce the amount of work you need to perform in your factory or develop your product. We provide you with traceable certification for your records. We offer extensive instruments including signal conditioners, PC interface modules, indicators and data acquisition equipment. Our accessories, such as load buttons, calibration adapters, thread adapters, clevises and rod end bearings assist with connecting and loading your load cell seamlessly. No matter what your solution needs are, the Interface team will share their experience with you to ensure that using our load cell and torque transducer products are easy.

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We Provide Complete Custom Solutions

Custom solutions from Interface are guaranteed with the same level of quality as our standard products and services.

  • Wireless Telemetry Solutions
  • Multi-Axis Sensors
  • Torque Transducers
  • Strain Gages
  • Load Cells
  • Test Stands
  • Instruments
  • Accessories
  • Testing Software