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.
In just six months, Liebherr-Transportation Systems completely reconstructed two manufacturing lines after a fire at its Tsarimir location in Bulgaria. The lines were also significantly upgraded. From...
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Synthetic fuels will play a central role in air transport and ocean shipping. The combustion of these new fuels will, however, produce new emissions. The sensors from SICK reliably measure these emissions.Welcome...
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Orfer Oy is a leading supplier of packaging and automation systems for the food industry and is located in Finland. A 3D vision solution jointly implemented with SICK ensures that all bread rolls are correctly...
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Victorian British industrial history met state-of-the-art 21st Century digitilisation from SICK to deliver a surprising sensing solution high in the windy moors of West Yorkshire. Wayne Morrison has...
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The containers filled with falafel or hummus specialities whiz by at lightning speed. But how much is actually currently being produced and how much is still needed to satisfy all the incoming orders?...
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Tracking and identifying luggage with laser, camera and RFID based solutions: an overview of SICK's offerings for airport logistics. For a passenger returning from a trip, loss of luggage is a source...
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Thanks to green packaging made with recyclable, biodegradable material from renewable sources, it is possible to reduce the carbon footprint associated to production and logistics. For the industrial...
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Tracking data and collecting information are the keywords for efficiency in the digital world. An overview of the main code readers available on the market today. Codes, in the purest sense of the...
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The decarbonization megatrend is causing evolutionary changes in the energy sector. Energy sources and the rate of used energy supplies are changing rapidly. We observe that existing power plants are modifying...
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The Photoheyler hoeing systems of the consultancy firm Planungsbüro Heinrich are revolutionizing automated weeding. They enable the specially shaped rotors on the tractor attachment to remove weeds...
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Generating compressed air consumes large quantities of electricity, making it one of the most expensive resources used in production. The sharp rise in energy prices seriously affects companies, including...
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Thanks to production data integration, processes can be monitored and improved. Have a look at SICK's proposal. With the advent of Industry 4.0 and process digitalization, companies have a huge wealth...
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Condition monitoring makes it possible to continuously monitor the status of sensors in waste management plants. Now let's see how. By condition monitoring we mean a particular approach to maintenance...
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Sensors, data, analytics, artificial intelligence, autonomous driving. These are some of the characteristics of a digitalized and efficient logistics hub. An overview of SICK solutions. Logistics...
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Handling products in Industrial enviroments requires maximum precision. This is the reason why SICK develops safety solutions for forklifts. Efficiency and productivity on the factory floor are crucial...
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Thanks to the integration of safety sensors, AGVs and AMRs optimize loading and unloading procedures, ensuring environmental awareness and safety for people. The need to reduce production times -...
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107 young tech talents, 23 teams, 48 hours, and countless cups of coffee: SICK Solution Hackathon 2023 brought together the inventive spirit of students and start-ups from all over the world with leading...
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Industry 4.0 opens the door to new production processes by implementing automation and robots: Industrial Mobile Robots (IMR) are an example. Digital transformation has opened the door to new ways...
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There are about 51,500 kilometers of asphalted roads in Finland. Around 8,000 kilometers of the roads were in poor condition at the end of 2022. The underlying causes of the damage can be determined with...
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On many machines, electro-sensitive protective equipment (ESPE), like safety light curtains and safety laser scanners, are used as safeguards where a physical guard would be unsuitable. This could be,...
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The most important approach for reducing CO2 emissions in the oil and gas industry is the separation of carbon dioxide, and its transport via pipelines or ships. In the future, more and more pipelines...
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While everyone is chatting about Artificial Intelligence (AI) language models, the really interesting things are happening in industrial applications. The possibilities and the opportunities created by...
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The metaverse: By this we mean a digital, three-dimensional, interactive space in which the physical and virtual world merge into one. As an “industrial metaverse”, it opens up for us new possibilities...
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