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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Interface Measurement Solutions Support Smart Cities
/in Blog /by Jamie GlassInterface load cell technologies are used in the design and development of smart cities. Force measurement data is valuable for assessing and improving the overall efficiency and sustainability of a city. Load cells are versatile and essential tools for a diverse range of smart city applications. They provide accurate and reliable measurements that can be used to improve safety, resource management, and sustainability. Interface load cells can be used to measure a variety of parameters in smart city development and management, from water resources to recycling. They are used in all types of building material and structural tests.
Force Measurement Testing Improves Products and Consumer Safety
/in Blog /by Jamie GlassInterface sensor technologies are used every day for product testing to ensure quality performance and consumer safety. Our load cells are used to test various consumer products’ weight, torsion, tension, compression, fatigue, impact, and materials. Interface specialists in force, torque and weight testing solutions work with product designers, testing labs, and manufacturers to improve their products using our precision measurement devices.
How Load Cells Are Transforming the Construction Industry
/in Blog /by Jamie GlassInterface force measurement solutions are used for all types of construction applications from bridge and high-rise building projects, to foundation load tests and structural monitoring. Our load cells and instrumentation are used in crane and heavy lifting operations, material testing and equipment calibration.
Interface Solutions for Heavy Equipment
/in Blog, Infrastructure /by Jamie GlassInterface force measurement solutions play a crucial role in the design, testing, and use of heavy equipment and vehicles including excavators, bulldozers, loaders, cranes, lifts, mixers, pavers, and compactors. Many considerations in designing heavy machinery are mandated by force limitations and equipment performance testing. Measurement for testing and monitoring come from our high-accuracy load cells, load pins, tension links, load shackles and other weight, force and torque measurement products.
Rigging Engineers Choose Interface Measurement Solutions
/in Blog /by Jamie GlassInterface supports rigging engineers who design, plan, and oversee the rigging of heavy loads by providing high accuracy measurement solutions. The use of load cells to measure the weight of heavy loads, such as cranes, ships, rockets, theater equipment and machinery is on the rise. Rigging engineers use the data from load cells, load pins, load shackles, and tension links to ensure that the loads are not overloaded and that the rigging systems are properly designed for each use case. This often requires pairing the high accuracy sensor with instrumentation, and for versatility wireless telemetry systems are useful for rigging engineers.
Innovative Interface Lifting Solutions
/in Blog, Infrastructure, Maritime /by Jamie GlassInterface lifting solutions are utilized to accurately measure the weight or force being exerted on the lifting equipment. Our lload cells, load pins, tension links, wireless technologies are integrated into cranes, hoists, and lifting devices to provide precise load measurements. Interface lifting solutions apply to equipment and machines used at construction sites, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, transportation locations, healthcare facilities, and maritime docks. Lifting applications can vary, such as loading and unloading goods, positioning heavy equipment or machinery, transferring patients in healthcare settings, or lifting materials for construction purposes.
Tension Load Cells 101
/in 101 Series, Blog /by Jamie GlassInterface tension load cell are a type of force sensor used to measure tensile forces in materials, structures, or machines. They are used to measure the maximum load that a material can support without fracture when being pulled or stretched under the applied load. With our proprietary strain gages manufactured inside the load cell sensor, it measures the deformation and converts it into an electrical signal.
Benefits of Proof Loading Verification
/in Blog /by Jamie GlassProof loading is a critical test that is performed on sensors or load cells to verify their performance and accuracy under extreme conditions. Engineers may need to request proof loading verification to ensure that the sensors or other measuring devices […]
Entertainment Venue Force Measurement and Monitoring Solutions
/in Blog /by Jamie GlassThere is a great deal of critical sensor technology used to design, build, and monitor venue infrastructure and the public before and during events. Venues management, architects, product makers and engineers take inordinate steps to protect people from bodily harm, […]
Crane Safety Requires Precision Measurements Ship to Shore
/in Blog /by Jamie GlassMaritime companies include businesses and governments that develop and utilize hardware to support shipyards, marine terminals, cargo and trade support, exploration and defense, fishing, aquaculture, seafood processing, commercial diving, energy infrastructure and platforms, along with marine transportation. There are multiple […]