SICK's company history

Flexi Loop: The unique, remote integration design of the Flexi Loop allows SICK to meet the demand for cost-saving cascading of safe switches and sensors within a machine.

DeltaPac: For more efficiency and quality in the packaging industry: The DeltaPac multi-task photoelectric switch combines Delta-S technology®, two high-resolution energy scales, SIRIC® and distance measurement. The sensor detects object contours with radii of up to 20 mm regardless of direction thanks to the four operating modes that can be selected with a click.

GHG-Control: Measuring greenhouse gases instead of calculating them

FLOWSIC500: The world's first ultrasonic compact gas meter for gas distribution.

EKS/EKM36: New motor feedback system with digital HIPERFACE DSL interface.

MERCEM300Z: Advanced mercury monitoring system with improved sensitivity.

Color Ranger E: The world's first high-speed 3D camera with high-performance color measurements.

Navigation based on natural landmarks.

High-end CCD sensor with integrated illumination.

Smallest safety laser scanner S300.

IO-Link: Continuous communication through innovative sensor/actuator interface.

RFID systems make it possible to identify objects without visual contact between reader and object to be identified.

3D camera sensors.

First high-safety, camera-based safety system for presses.

New generation of photoelectric switches: Sensor array with place- and time-triggered measurement of both the object to be detected and especially the environment.

 Proximity laser scanner with dynamic protective field switching for automated guided systems.

High-speed 2D code reader. 

Teach-in vision sensor.

Miniature cylinder sensor.

Safety bus system.

First photoelectric switch for detecting light sections of a laser line on a 32 x 32 pixel field for determining the shape and position of objects.

First budget photoelectric switch based on time-of-flight technology.

First photoelectric switch with Teflon-coated housing for the electronic and process industry.

First bar code reader with integrated autofocus based on time-of-flight technology.

Smallest fully extrusion-coated magnet sensor

First photoelectric proximity sensor which is insensitive to ambient light sources.

SICK modular advanced recognition technology (SMART) makes it possible to identify even damaged bar codes.

First time-of-flight device for positioning items in high-bay warehouses.

First photoelectric switch with ambient light.

First miniature photoelectric switch with background suppression.

First application of a proximity laser scanner for volume measurement.

First luminescence scanner in the field of automation technology with UV LED.

First color sensor.

First area scanner in safety category 3 for protecting hazardous areas.

First distance determination with laser light on the time-of-flight of pulses principle.

 First in-situ diode array spectrometer for sulfur oxide, nitrogen oxide, and ammonia.

Carbon monoxide measuring device for monitoring emissions in road tunnels.

First volume flow measuring device based on the ultrasound time-of-flight process.

First in-situ gas measurement device for sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide (filter correlator).

First area scanner with V-shaped, rotating beam and special reflector in safety category 2 for protecting hazardous areas.

Introduction of the semiconductor diode for the transmitter beam in photoelectric switches and proximity switches.

First safety grid curtain for controlling protective hoods on eccentric presses.

First color-ring code reader for detecting colored ring codes on ampules.

Fiber-optic cable for detecting small objects when space is tight.

 First luminescence scanner for detecting luminophores in objects.

 Bar-code identification of packing lists, folding boxes, tins, tubes, etc. in the pharmaceutical industry.

First curve control device for guiding a duplicating milling machine according to a construction diagram – the predecessor of today's NC milling machine.

First optical height scanner for regulating filling levels.

First weft winder monitor for very thin knitting thread (autocollimation principle).

First rapid optical counter with display and integrated target value definition for quick detection of small objects.

First optical-electronic flue gas monitor based on the autocollimation principle.

 Static accident prevention light curtain with hollow mirror, without mirror wheel.

• A printed mark control device for the packaging industry
• First light curtain for accident prevention on production machines