14 Nov 2023
What is a Force Gauge?
Force gauges may not be the most familiar term to engineers and quality control professionals. When asked the question of how to measure force, people might think of load cells, or perhaps think of tensile testing machines or materials testing machines. People could be forgiven for not realizing that force gauges were relatively basic before the dramatic changes in the digital revolution of the 1980s and 1990s. And today, they still play a unique and subtle role that can be difficult to define precisely.