A Load Cell Is a Spring You Learn to Trust: A Guide to Strain Gauge Load Cells A load cell is a precision spring: a strain gauge load cell converts the elastic element's deformation under force into an electrical signal through bonded strain gauges and a Wheatstone bridge. Non-linearity, hysteresis, and creep all describe how […]
The Honest Answer that May Have Cost us a Million Dollars: Why Trustworthy Calibration Services Matter “You can’t handle the truth!” – Colonel Jessup, A Few Good Men Colonel Jessup was wrong about most things, but he was onto something: the truth is not always what people want to hear. Not long ago, a prospective […]
Force Measurement Traceability: Why Every Link in the Chain must Carry more Doubt than the One Above it "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link." Everyone knows the proverb. Force measurement traceability runs the proverb backward: every link in the chain must carry more doubt than the link above it, and a laboratory […]
