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.
SICK supplies image-based code readers and vision sensors for fully automated position and assembly control as well as for visual guidance of robots. This equipment features in a system for screwing airbag...
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Now with the new deTec4 Core and deTec2 Core safety light curtains, the protection of hazardous points and access points is easier than ever. The newest member of the deTec4 Prime family adds additional...
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How can we harness modern technology in a way that will allow people to collaborate with business even more intelligently, efficiently, and sustainably in the future? SICK has applied 2D laser scanners...
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With the new 3D vision sensors in the Visionary-B and Visionary-T product families, SICK is offering innovative 3D snapshot technologies for use in industrial applications.The Visionary-B CV uses stereoscopy...
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Powerful technology, easy commissioning, intuitive operation: With the TriSpector1000, the benefits of 3D vision really are at your fingertips. Integrated image analysis makes configuration easy. And the...
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The Glare by SICK is offering bright prospects in the battle against falsification and tampering in the field of medicinal product packaging. The innovative glare sensor was developed in response to the...
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Drivers fit summer or winter tires to their vehicles as appropriate for the time of year. They expect suitable and safe tires that will exhibit ideal rolling, braking, and endurance characteristics at...
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The automotive industry takes advantage of tailor-made solutions for the automated identification of objects in virtually every process in the production and supply chain. RFID (radio-frequency identification)...
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Regenerative Thermal Oxidation (RTO) systems use combustion to remove harmful gas components from exhaust air, the majority of these being pollutants resulting from corrosive components in chemical processes...
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Dutch production company Stage Entertainment continues its successful series, earning three musical prizes for Billy Elliot - The Musical. Silicon Theatre Scenery (STS), based in De Kwakel, Netherlands...
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The new standard for reliable detection with an extended sensing range cannot be measured with a conventional yardstick. After all, with sensing ranges from 5 cm to 3.8 m, no object goes undetected...
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Packing foodstuffs, regardless of whether they are raw and fresh or in their final, packaged form, involves a high degree of automation nowadays. To broaden the scope of opportunities in picking applications,...
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The GM901 gas analyzer monitors carbon monoxide during the roasting process, thus preventing potential explosions which could be caused by high concentrations of gas in the roaster. And thanks to laser...
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Greater cost-effectiveness through increased productivity - swissQprint is setting a new benchmark with its new Nyala 2 large-format printer. This is also made possible by the machine's smart safety concept,...
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Most of us enjoy the great taste of nutritious tomatoes - as pure and fresh crops, tomato sauce, or with pasta. Around 20 million Australians eat 22 kg of processed tomatoes per head annually. Founded...
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The L29 single-beam photoelectric safety switch, developed especially for the packaging manufacturer MULTIVAC, stops dangerous movements safely if someone reaches into the forming station in a thermoforming...
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Even in the largest parking garages, spaces are limited. But what can we do when the barriers open of their own accord and grant access to everyone? The specialists from Card Service AG, based in Muri...
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You need a measurement expert if you want to take safe and accurate measurements of the concentration of hydrocarbons during production processes. The flame ionization detector has proved to be a successful...
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Measuring dust emissions is easy - if one has the right measuring equipment. When it comes to choosing the right measuring device, one has to look at both the properties of the medium to be measured and...
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Public bodies ask for full and accurate reports: has the company in question adhered to the limits for environmental emissions at fossil fuel power plants, hazardous waste incineration plants, and...
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A company that builds a parking lot for its employees has different requirements for it than a public parking lot. The basic requirement in such cases is it can be used safely and comfortably by authorized...
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As a secure shipper in accordance with the German Aviation Security Act, a company that sends air freight to the USA must protect the goods from being accessed by unauthorized parties. As a non-certified...
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Emissions trading requires facilities that generate greenhouse gases to take their own measurements and draw up reports concerning the volume of emissions that they produce. The EU directive that took...
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On the outskirts of the Dutch village of Duizel lie the administrative buildings and production halls of ATD Machinery B.V. It is here, in the buildings of the cigar manufacturer Royal Agio Cigars, that...
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