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Year in Review of Top Interface Solutions and Applications

Interface is at the forefront of innovative use cases and applications, providing quality devices worldwide to gather precision measurements. Interface unveils the top industry solutions, product use cases and applications that define force measurement in 2023.

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Interface Engineered Solutions for Lifting Webinar Recap

Interface webinar Engineered Solutions for Lifting details force, torque, and weighing measurement products in lifting equipment like cranes, movers, rigging, simulators, drones, and medical devices. During this recorded webinar, experts provide tips for lifting, technical considerations, industry applications, load cells, instrumentation product reviews, and engineering recommendations for troubleshooting and preventing overloading. Sensors are central in lifting equipment to maintain safety, quality, compliance, and efficiency. Interface provides a useful product selection online resource for lifting applications.

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Force Measurement is Fundamental in Material Testing

Interface load cells, multi-axis sensors, and data acquisition systems are used for material testing. Common uses of force measurement in material tests include applications to measure hardness, torsion, strength, compression, bending, shear, impact, creep, fatigue, and nondestructive capabilities. It is common to have our 1200 LowProfile load cells installed into material testing machines at test labs and onsite. We also supply a variety of miniature load cells and load pins for material testing, depending on the type of equipment and environment used for tests.

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Conveyor Belts Use Load Cells to Keep Things Moving

Interface force measurement solutions are used for conveyor belt design, testing, monitoring, and maintenance systems. Load cells can monitor the load distribution across belts on a production line, ensuring balanced operation, alignment, and preventing the overloading of individual components. Sensor-enabled conveyors are critical in construction, mining, manufacturing, logistics, maritime, and agriculture heavy equipment, systems, and machinery.

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Seaside Ports are Optimizing Efficiency and Safety Using Interface Sensor Technologies

Interface supplies measurement solutions to infrastructure and equipment makers for seaside ports, global trade shipping companies, and waterway terminals that heavily rely on quality measurement solutions. Our sensor technologies are used in cranes, gantry systems, lifting reach stackers, hoisting equipment, winches, anchors and mooring lines, plus weighbridges and scales. Ports turn to Interface for accurate load cells, load pins, shackles, tensions links, submersible solutions and wireless instrumentation.

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Interface Solutions Aid Pharmaceutical Industry

Interface has a long history of providing precision measurement solutions for pharmaceutical R&D, prototyping, testing, manufacturing, packaging and monitoring use. The science used in the pharmaceutical industry depends on quality measurement of force and weight. Interface load cells are designed for these types of precise requirements. Learn more about our pharma applications and products.

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Interface Load Cells Propel New Torsional Force Measurements for Wind Energy Project

Interface energy case study reveals how Interface load cells were used by the PTB in Germany to develop, calibrate and test the world's largest machine that measures torsional forces related to wind turbines. Learn about the products and the remarkable project led to new measurement capabilties for alternative energy production.

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Digital Instrumentation 101

Interface offers several types of digital instrumentation devices that transform load cell and strain bridge input into digital data output in numerous protocols and bus formats. Learn about digital instrumentation used in test measurement and why engineers prefer digital.

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Force Makes the Circular Economy Go Around

Interface load cells and instrumentation are used in different facilities and resource manufacturing processes within the circular economy. Our sensor technologies help to measure and monitor forces, loads, and weight within the tools, robotics, and machinery used to optimize resources. Our sensors are also commonly used to test new products for material strength, fatigue lifecycle, quality, and function.