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.
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Within the electronics industry, quality and precision are key factors when it comes to intelligent production concepts: The only way to ensure high levels of quality - from the individual components right...
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The darker the object, the harder it is to detect as the distance increases. But penguins in the Antarctic can now keep their black tailcoats on when a drone hovers overhead and the integrated laser scanner...
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In many industries, challenging ambient conditions of all kinds are part of everyday production. The systems and sensors that are responsible for keeping the production process safe have to be specially...
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Industry 4.0 is more than advanced automation. Machines that simply operate more quickly would be Industry 3.5 or 3.6. The fourth industrial revolution, however, takes place on the data level. The idea...
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With industrial parquet manufacturing, fine wood flooring became affordable and available to anyone. The European parquet industry now produces over 80 million square meters of parquet flooring every year...
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Flück, a firm specializing in conveying systems and special-purpose equipment, has modernized a winding and binding machine using sensors and control technology from SICK. At the Geberit...
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Automated and flexible production processes are the answer to increasing quantities, smaller batch sizes, and high production speeds. Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and their smaller relatives, automated...
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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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