Explore our latest innovations and discover SICK's success stories as one of the world's leading solutions providers for sensor-based applications. The SICK Sensor Blog helps its readers stay up to date on the latest advances in automation, ranging from production plants to processes and logistics systems. It’s time to lift the veil on the world of digital transformation.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Digital transformation. These are daunting words for some companies. It's no wonder that a few of them are still holding back on acting. With its new learning modules...
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SICK opened the gates to the 4.0 NOW factory in Freiburg in 2019. Since then, not only have groups of visitors gained exciting insights into production there, but also Joachim Schultis, Head of Operations...
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The future is here: Industry 4.0 applications are concrete and already a reality. Mobile platforms and their reliable control are an important part of this development. Automated guided vehicles, AGVs...
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The machine builder BalTec has developed a novel electrical riveting machine. The previously pneumatic drive has been replaced with servomotors, which make the connection technology much more efficient...
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Quality control is becoming ever more important. In the food industry, guaranteeing use-by-dates, in particular, is of the utmost importance to manufacturers – as demonstrated time and time again...
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The requirements on extractive gas analysis are demanding. Not only on the quality of the analysis, but also the availability and functionality of the highly sensitive devices used. This is of great importance...
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The maritime energy revolution is officially in swing and has now reached an ambitious level. The sensors from SICK measure the CO2 emissions from combustion processes and are approved for emissions reporting...
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A quick look at what’s in store for the robotics industry in 2020 together with Paul Szeflinski, Founder & President of IAS Inc. in the US The robotics industry has grown continously...
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The columns of safety. The racks of the Czech high-bay shelving system manufacturer Obchodní společnost KREDIT, spol. s r.o. move as if by magic. The technology is familiar from the small, light...
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SICK has been developing sensors for over 75 years. During that time the company has always been a little bit ahead of the times. We spoke to Christoph Müller, Senior Vice President for Industrial...
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Optimizing your palletizing and depalletizing efforts requires careful planning – and possibly even some Tetris skills. Boxes of all different shapes and sizes are stacked on top of one another,...
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Spain’s largest LNG provider Enagas experienced unexpectedly high BOG boil-off gas losses (unaccounted for gas in energy balance) at its Huelva plant. This was due to significant turbulence caused...
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The little big saver. Energy efficiency and energy transparency are playing an increasingly important role in factory automation. What is already an established driver of innovation for process automation...
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Logistics processes are becoming more complex every day. Transparency is therefore increasingly becoming a decisive requirement for raising the efficiency and productivity of logistical processes. Against...
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Fluid Power from SICK: Know today what will happen tomorrow. These are intelligent sensors and applications in the field of hydraulic and pneumatic industrial drives. In many areas, they contribute to...
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Machines are learning to think. Deep learning is a machine learning technique − and the most significant future technology in artificial intelligence. SICK transfers this key technology to its...
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Safety laser scanners are powerful devices for complex applications. With a vast number of choices in the market with regards to range, connectivity, size, and robustness, there are many variables to consider...
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In the railway museum in St. Petersburg, two S300 Mini safety laser scanners from SICK secure a modern multimedia installation. Thanks to these devices, a video wall 4.5 m high moves over the entire travel...
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SICK supplies a wide range of solutions for logistics, process and factory automation along the value-adding chain. On behalf of the many other industries and complete solutions, SICK has selected four...
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A groundbreaking collaboration between SICK and AutoCoding Systems has resulted in the launch of the first fully-automatic smart vision inspection system for printed coding and marking on food, pharmaceutical...
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Since 2008, the SOCAR Company has set up an extended network of CNG stations spaced around 200 250 km apart in an attempt to link up different locations in Turkey such as Izmir, Istanbul, Ankara and Mersin...
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Tough on the outside, smart on the inside: The W4 Inox Smart Sensor is the optimal choice in all situations where objects have to be detected under harsh conditions, sensors have to be as small as possible...
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Not all publicity is good publicity – particularly the publicity found on www.lebensmittelwarnung.de. The website of the federal states and the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety...
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Fluid Power from SICK. These are intelligent sensors and applications in the field of hydraulic and pneumatic industrial drives. In many areas, they contribute to the optimization of processes and improved...
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