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.
It all starts with a piece of metal. In the body shop, the rear part of the vehicle represents the first stage in creating a customer’s specific order. Step by step, the car at long last starts to...
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The big preview for the Hannover Messe 2018 took place on 6 February 2018. 170 journalists from all over the world were invited to the preview. Selected exhibitors were able to present their new products...
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Up to now, functional safety technology in automation has mostly been implemented separated from fieldbuses and Ethernet networks. But the next microScan3 generation sets new standards: The microScan3...
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At the site of the High Moselle Bridge in Zeltingen-Rachtig in Germany – the largest bridge currently under construction within Europe – a team from Trier University of Applied Sciences are...
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In the Netherlands, natural gas is a key source of energy and accounts for nearly half of the total energy mix. As we enter a new era in terms of energy, an intelligent approach to gas production is crucial...
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Fitness or health apps read data from fitness wristbands or smartwatches and provide information about the current performance of the user. The apps also provide additional services such as digital manuals...
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For Industrieservice Schach, working with SICK as a one-stop supplier is paying dividends both technically and financially. Based in Nürtingen, Germany, the company uses state-of-the-art sensor technology...
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Goods flows multiply for Christmas business, and logistic systems face major challenges every year - in production and trade, as in the area of dispatch services. The final link in the logistical chain,...
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Costly manual measurement of raw chipboard is a thing of the past. The SicoCam inline board measurement system from Siempelkamp Logistics & Service now measures wooden composite boards in a continuous...
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Managing the future with "Sensor Intelligence.": At SPS/IPC/Drives 2017, SICK once again presented exciting trends and innovations. During recent years, digitalization and networking in production...
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Especially when it comes to Industry 4.0, integration capability and consistency are important features of intelligent and future-proof communication structures. That is why SICK offers several options...
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At SICK, sensor data travels by bus: Fiber-optic sensors and distance sensors are connected to a WI180C-PB fieldbus module and integrated in PROFIBUS systems. The communication module enables quick access...
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Fully-automatic watering systems, placing robots for the potted plants, climate computers for perfect ambient conditions or picking of different plant types. The flower industry now uses automated high-tech...
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A garbage truck driver is faced with challenges on a daily basis, including illegally parked cars, narrow roads, irritated motorists, heat, cold, and thunderstorms. It does not have to be like this any...
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Small, but a global leader all the same: Ehrler Prüftechnik Engineering GmbH (EP-E) has crafted a remarkable reputation in the field of high-precision testing and calibration systems. A preferred...
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Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and automated guided vehicle systems (AGVSs) play a major role in increasing the flexibility of production and logistics processes. Used individually or in groups, these...
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The rapid pace of progress in electronics and sensor technology is determining the level of innovation in mobile machines today. The manufacturers and users of agricultural and forestry, construction and...
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Wanna bet that ... you can use an excavator shovel to place the tone arm of a record player precisely between two songs on a record, or hang up six socks with two excavators in the space of four minutes?...
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Multimillion-dollar damage that occurs during aircraft ground handling leads to high insurance payouts every year. As a result, ground handling services are encumbered with higher insurance premiums.In...
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Agricultural machines are exposed to extreme situations which require a high degree of ruggedness to withstand. Only the tough - and the giving - prevail. IMB inductive proximity sensors make a major contribution...
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The Old City Harbor of Tallinn is one of the busiest on the Baltic Sea. The wish to control the steadily increasing traffic volume and to improve the experience for passengers has prompted the port operator...
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Now there is no need to go without ultrasonic precision and fall back on other mechanical measurement techniques in the event of a mains voltage failure. The back-up batteries in the FLOWSIC-X gas flow...
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With mobile machines, accidents often occur when maneuvering and backing up on construction sites, in surface and underground mining, and in agriculture and forestry, as well as with special and municipal...
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Delayed, damaged or lost baggage is more than just a nuisance. It reduces customer satisfaction and constantly generates costs. The IATA Resolution 753, which will soon come into force, is to change all...
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