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.
Frozen fish specialties are a solid alternative to fresh fish. But where was the fish caught? And how? Femeg, a German producer of frozen fish specialties, has the answer: QR codes on frozen...
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The Chinese railroad network carries an average of 42 million passengers every year, making it the world's busiest transportation service. In the past, rockfalls and debris avalanches falling onto the...
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Every year more than a million fall accidents are registered per year.The medical product developer BAAT Medical has built a unique fall simulator, which is equipped with safety components from SICK,...
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The deTec2 Core safety light curtain from SICK represents yet another feat in the new deTec device generation. After launching the deTec4 Core, which is certified for PL e or SIL3, last year, the sensor...
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The new Lector620 OCR image-based code reader is the ideal solution for reading and identifying printed plain text in packaging applications. Lector620 OCR reads best-before dates and batch numbers,...
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Optimalog was founded in 2006 and develops specialized automation software for PCs. They are currently developing a robot that can fully automatically cultivate an agricultural research park for the French...
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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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