Force gage may not be the most familiar term to engineers and quality control professionals. When posed with the question of how to measure force, a load cell may come to mind, or, on the other end of a spectrum, a tensile tester or materials tester. One could be forgiven for not being aware of force gages, as they were relatively basic until the digital revolution changed things dramatically in the 1980s and 1990s. And today, they still serve a unique and subtle purpose that can be difficult to neatly define.

Force gages are available in a range of capacities and resolutions to accommodate a wide variety of applications.