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.
Solvents are used e.g. in paint shops and coating lines and being disposed in exhaust air decontamination systems. This process creates gas mixtures, the concentration of which must be analyzed to prevent...
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To maintain clean air, harmful emissions such as waste gases or dusts must be qualitatively and quantitatively recorded and kept to an absolute minimum. As the only provider of in-situ measurement technology...
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When public and industrial buildings or private houses need to be secured against intrusions, jailbreak, theft, vandalism or terrorism, structural measures or protection by security guards often...
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There is not a farmer in sight in the Van Aart family's barn. Yet the cows are still standing in line to be milked. Ever since the two MR-S1 milking robots arrived from BouMatic Robotics in Emmeloord,...
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Even things not graspable are now detected reliably: Infrablack object with only 1 % diffuse light reflection can be detected dependably at a range of up to 50 mm. Innovative technologies constitute...
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Assan Hanil is one of the leading automobile suppliers in Turkey. The company produces automotive accessories in its 30,000 m2 factory. For the protection of personnel in the paint shop's hazardous area...
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A flexible system for hazardous area protection on tire curing machines ensures optimum safety, efficiency, and ergonomics for the tire manufacturer Continental. As part of an international project,...
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Reliably detecting transparent items in translucent packages - at B. Braun, manufacturer of medical products, the Inspector I40LUT vision sensor manages what conventional image-processing solutions...
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The latest technologies from SICK enable the TranspaTect MultiTask photoelectric sensor to manage without any reflectors and instead utilize machine components as a reference surface when detecting transparent...
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For identification of inbound pieces of baggage, Istanbuls Ataturk Airport relies on automatic track and trace systems from SICK. In this way, it was possible to improve transparency and traceability of...
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In semiautomatic cable twisters of the Komax Wire Company several wires were twisted into a more compact strand. Twisting has the benefit of preventing the transmission of interference pulses into...
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The strength of the Flexi Soft Designer configuration tool is that it enables users to create easy and straightforward configurations for the Flexi Soft safety controller. Only three steps are needed (hardware...
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Exact level measurement in heavily foaming media - no problem for the LFP Inox level sensor. The measuring principle of guided radar provides for utmost reliability; the hygiene-level design of the...
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When protecting hazardous areas of robot work cells and assembly lines in car body construction, the S3000 safety laser scanners from SICK with integrated PROFINET IO interface are the preferred choice...
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Everyone knows that unpleasant feeling that comes over you when an elevator jerks as it slows down and comes to a halt with a low rumble. State-of-the-art elevators offer maximum ride comfort: almost silent...
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Time and space are money. This is why it is of special importance in intralogistics to make best use of the warehouse space available. The STILL GmbH is a producer of forklift trucks and intralogistics...
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Container terminals operate on a 24/7 basis, so the demand on availability is extremely high. Collisions involving the boom of ship-to-shore cranes and ships pose the greatest risk in daily operations...
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The partnership between OCME and SICK is a success story and a guarantee for extremely high-quality solutions. Due to the development of laser-guided transport vehicles, OCME automated the entire final...
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Nobody loves their speed skating as much as the Dutch. Winter is a succession of one competition rapidly following another. Needless to say, it is extremely important not only to the competitors, but also...
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"Louise" has an important job in the cement plant Holcim in Siggenthal, Switzerland. She is a bunker discharger in such a way as to achieve optimum discharge of limestone and marl as well as...
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Red lights in front of the tunnel often means poor air quality in the tunnel. Tunnel operators try to avoid such situations with continuous monitoring of visibility in road tunnels. While the market offers...
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Over the past few years, the number of people suffering from food allergies has risen significantly. To ensure that every pack really does have on the inside what it states on the outside, vision sensors...
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Hermes is one of the leading logistics and trading services providers operating across Europe. Every year, Hermes manages hundreds of millions of shipments and movements of goods at its logistics centers...
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More than 400 different pressed parts form the basis of the body-in-white of a BMW 3 Series. For this purpose, at the Munich Presswerk II of the BMW Group every day sees the processing of about 600 tons...
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