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.
Pieces of plastic in chocolate bars, bacterial contamination of cream cheese, falsely declared ingredients in pasta-based ready meals – a food product may be recalled for any number of reasons. As...
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Confined spaces, tiny objects, and tailored component designs - these are some of the challenges faced when producing electronic components and devices. Intelligent solutions from SICK are exactly the...
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Under the motto “Driving your industry 4ward”, SICK presented its own smart factory at the Hannover Messe 2017 for the efficient production of batch size 1 and showed what is already possible...
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Where most of the contrast sensors reach their limits, the KTS and KTX offer more applications, more areas of use, more flexibility. They incorporate more than just the reliability and availability of...
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Parts of the so-called smart factory are already reality: workstations can coordinate their processes and functions with one another. In other scenarios, production structures are based on autonomous units...
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Angela Merkel’s visit to SICK’s stand provided a highlight right at the start of this year’s Hannover Messe. The German Chancellor stopped off at SICK’s stand during her mandatory...
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The promise was made, and we kept it: For the first time, SICK installed two ultrasonic gas flow meters from SICK in a permanent series connection for a German power supply company. Additionally, the gas...
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Everybody’s talking about Industry 4.0 but few know what it is all about. Bernhard Müller, responsible for Industry 4.0 on the Management Board, and Dr. Kay Fürstenberg, Manager of the...
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Human-robot collaboration (HRC) describes a work scenario in which humans and automated machines share the same workspace and work within it simultaneously. Driven by Industry 4.0, this model promises...
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SICK has more than 30 years’ experience in the field of vision technology. This expertise is exploited in the continuous development of innovative and intelligent solutions for identification, positioning,...
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The networking and availability of data are central features of the digitalization of industry. Data thus free themselves of software and hardware structures, and become independent economic goods. This...
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Reliable function under the toughest conditions - that is the promise from the heavy-duty sensors from SICK. Different product families are available depending on the individual application requirements;...
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In virtually every country, quality requirements are increasing, innovation cycles are getting shorter, and wage costs are rising. As a result, demand for robot-based automation solutions is growing within...
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Demand for electronic components is constantly growing, in turn increasing the quantities involved in PCB production. To ensure that the connections to the periphery are secure, wire connections are no...
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Within the electronics industry, the optimization of products and processes is vital to creating the intelligent solutions of the future. End products are entering new dimensions in terms of their performance...
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Every amateur cook knows that you have to use the right oil and fat for optimum results. As well as having basic cooking skills, the cook needs to know that an oil bottle or packet of cooking fat actually...
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Cermex, a company based in Corcelles les Cîteaux, is the cardboard packaging division of Gebo Cermex, one of the world market leaders in the packaging line industry. It has developed a high-performance...
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When it comes to automation solutions, there are two wishes at the top of every company's list: An increase in productivity and less strenuous work for the employees. Georg Fischer in Herzogenburg (Austria)...
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An adaptable machine concept that can be scaled up to meet changing requirements and, if necessary, converted to perform new tasks and installed in new locations - that is the philosophy behind the BFM...
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SICK supplies sensor solutions for almost every possible application in the metal and steel sector, even in the world of analytical measuring. The companys latest innovation is METPAX300, a customized...
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No matter what the weather, you will find countless reach stackers in use at every port. The rugged Visionary-B CV 3D vision sensor with snapshot technology by SICK supports reach stacker operators with...
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Producers of building materials want to ensure that their products are of the highest quality possible, and in the production of special bricks for blast furnaces - which are particularly susceptible to...
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Virtually all system operators need to operate machines efficiently even when batch sizes are small, when products and formats need to be changed frequently, or when packaging varies in terms of design...
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Consistent quality, very few rejects, reliable part and batch tracking, added transparency: The use of vision sensors for quality control directly in the production process offers a number of benefits...
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