Tag Archive for: maritime

Interface Measurement Solutions for Shipbuilding From Hull to Deck
Interface’s force measurement technology is indispensable for modern shipbuilding. Load cells, torque transducers, and instrumentation help shipbuilders produce high-quality, safe, and reliable vessels, from testing materials for durability to ensuring the safe assembly of critical components. With ongoing advancements in maritime engineering, Interface continues to innovate, providing essential tools to meet the evolving demands of shipbuilding from testing rigging to materials.

Showcasing Load Pin Versatility and Adaptation
Interface Load Pin measurement devices provide real-time force and weighing data for performance monitoring, equipment quality control, operational support, and product safety. These load pins are used in energy, agriculture, manufacturing, aerospace, infrastructure and manufacturing industriy applications. Interface Load Pins are machined from high-tensile stainless steel and are suitable for all settings, including exposed environments such as seawater. They are used in heavy machinery in industrial factories and submersible energy generators in the ocean.

Measurement Solutions for Harnessing Aquaculture Innovation
Interface offers sensor-based products that aid in advancements, research, and modernizing various facets of aquaculture. Interface load cells are used in applications that regulate harsh maritime situations, such as fish farm mooring lines, salmon cage monitoring, hatcheries and feed management structures, and scales used in real-time seafood weighing.

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.

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.

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.

Outlining Force Solutions for Structural Outrigging
Interface provides load cells and wireless technologies for structural outrigging. Force measurement sensor technologies provide high accuracy measurement of the outrigging equipment in test and actual use. The applications range from integrating sensors into outrigger equipment to using load cells for real-time monitoring of physical structures using outrigger supports. Interface load cells are used by outrigging engineers, civil engineers and heavy equipment manufacturers, oil and gas, construction industry and marine equipment companies.

Rigging Engineers Choose Interface Measurement Solutions
Interface 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.

Interface Acquires LCM Systems
Interface, Inc. is the world’s trusted leader in technology, design, and manufacturing of force measurement products. We are pleased to announce that we have recently acquired LCM Systems Ltd, a market leader in specialized load measurement solutions utilized across industries by customers worldwide. The acquisition of LCM Systems accelerates Interface’s growth in global test and measurement by adding critical engineering and manufacturing expertise with an international presence. Interface has been a long-time partner of LCM Systems. Working together to supply high-accuracy and quality measurement solutions to Interface customers, we both understand that the market is growing and dependent on LCM's expertise and manufactured products, including load pins, load shackles, tension links and specialized measurement sensor solutions.