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.
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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Every day natural gas flows in great quantities through pipelines or into storage facilities. Precise gas quantity measurement is of the utmost importance, as even very small measurement errors could result...
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Vision sensors usually inspect the quality of a product - whether in industrial production or in food-processing companies. However, the sensors from SICK's Inspector product family can also be used in...
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Providing highly accurate, reliable and fast 3D measurement datas of stationary objects with a wide field of view, ScanningRuler allows robot systems to locate parts in advanced picking applications and...
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Inden is the third strip mining site in the Rhineland brown coal mining district after Garzweiler and Hambach. The mining field is approximately 4,500 hectares in size. Its coal seams are up to 45 m thick...
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Satisfaction has never been so quick: Minimized effort required for setting, high-level of detection reliability, flexible 360° alignement, and with optional Q-Lock fastening system mounted in...
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Under the product name of ZoneControl®, SICK supplies intelligent sensor solutions for object detection on accumulating roller conveyors. In this way, one can effectively relieve the automation system...
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ALMA stands for Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, a terrestrial space observatory in the Chilean Atacama desert, more than 5000 meter above sea level. It consists of about 66 individual radio...
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When design engineers become euphoric, there must be a good reason. Perhaps the latest safety controller from SICK that cleverly incorporates advantages? It is so safe and intelligent that a new word had...
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Counting impulses and detecting changes in speed one step earlier based on acceleration - this combination unprecedented on the market is provided by the SAM inductive proximity sensor from SICK. ...
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South Africas largest electricity producer ESKOM has set itself a significant task: to continuously monitor its dust concentration levels and, at the same time, meet the requirements stipulated by the...
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