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.
Where there used to be manned forklift trucks driving about loading truck trailers with boxes of chips, the new Joloda loading system pushes 42 pallets into an extra-long truck in one fully automated operation...
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Tea with a pure, natural taste: That is every tea drinker's dream. And now, thanks to the Italian company TEAMAC, that dream can become reality. The machine manufacturer provides environmentally friendly...
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The Industrial Internet is only made possible thanks to intelligent, communicative sensors: With its Smart Sensor Solutions, SICK places great emphasis on the use of state-of-the-art sensor technologies...
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Up to 3,000 cheese products an hour are weighed and given the correct label in the new production line at the Arla Food dairy in Götene. Autolabel AB, a print and apply machine manufacturer based...
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Wind power plants and solar parks are now an integral part of a sustainable energy management strategy. The wind and the sun are reliable sources of energy. Sensors from SICK play a role in ensuring that...
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With the production of oil, the Russian government has recognized the potential to enhance its environmental protection credentials and improve energy efficiency. This also includes making good use of...
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Garbage that is burned and converted into power, district heat, and ash releases significantly fewer climate-damaging gases than garbage deposited in landfills. However, the practice of thermal recycling...
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With the CPS modular machine concept, the pharmaceutical product division of Bosch Packaging Technology offers intelligent complete solutions for packaging, serializing, aggregation, and the provision...
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Weighing system is a traditional solution in mines industry in China for calculating the mines outputs and shipping. Such weighing system easily fails and even outputs incorrect results when itwas used...
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Thanks to their consistently modular machine concept, the top-loading machines produced by Schubert in Crailsheim, Germany, are among the most flexible solutions of their type. Despite the functions...
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In industrial systems or chemical parks, organic substances can enter these wage systems or surface water during filling processes or repairs. To prevent this, waste water must be reliably inspected for...
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When it comes to achieving climate protection objectives or making fundamental improvements to our operational performance, there are many aspects to analyze and evaluate. The approaches to this are particularly...
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Imagine traveling down one of the major classic routes on the bicycle owned by Belgian legend Albéric Briek Schotte - the ledereen Flandrien expo will make this dream a reality for cycling...
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Gas analysis, dust monitoring, flow measurement meet all requirements. High availability of CEMS measurement for exact reporting in a remote desert location in Chile. SICK realizes a multi-component emission...
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With the new horizontal accumulator the Netherlands based conveyor system manufacturer Polyketting is bringing about a miniature revolution in the industry. Now even bottles, other totes and packages with...
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Coal is China's most important source of energy, and harmful emissions must be significantly reduced. SICK has captured the Chinese power plant market with its first class measurement technology. ...
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Supply chains and logistics processes form a key component of the value added chains of many industry sectors and fields. Just as it does for economic development, the logistics sector also plays a key...
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A container ship consumes an average of approx. 50 tons heavy fuel oil for each day at sea, depending on the ship's size, load, and how it is operated. Proportional amounts of carbon dioxide, sulfur...
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Ceilings, walls, floors, skids, and car bodies - there's nothing but metal behind the CPD dryer 2 at Mercedes-Benz in Rastatt. The conditions in which the SICK UHF-RFID devices for wireless identification...
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Anyone ordering sirloin, rib-eye, or tenderloin steak in a restaurant in Europe is most likely being served quality beef from Goedegebuur, a beef specialist in Rotterdam, Netherlands. More than 170 employees...
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Loading and unloading in ports is constantly fast paced, while at the same time, safety is the highest priority. Preventing collisions with ship parts by monitoring port cranes can be particularly challenging,...
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Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are used for moving materials and equipment, and operate without a driver on board. Using an automatic control system, they supply product lines and transport goods between...
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Latexco is one of the worlds leading manufacturers of latex components for the bedding industry. The various sizes of latex mattresses, pillows, and mattress toppers made on its three production lines...
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The control station of a coal-fired power plant receives an alarm signal. A gas analyzer is supposed to keep harmful emissions to a minimum, although this clearly doesnt seem possible at this very moment...
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