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.
"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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For cleaning subway tunnels, the special equipment supplier Schörling has developed a self-propelled train, equipping it with intelligent sensor technology from SICK. In dark tunnels, this technology...
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When commissioning a production order in the production department, e.g. final assembly or engine production in the automotive industry, then various sub-quantities may have to be put together from the...
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Highways and other busy traffic routes are dangerous obstacles for animals living in the wild. Green bridges (wildlife crossings) connect the animals habitats. Roe deer, red deer, wild boars, and...
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Itella, the Finnish mail and communication company (formerly Finnish Post), has invested in new sorting and detection systems at several parcel sorting centers. As a first in this sector, combined...
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The Jiangsu Sha Steel Group is the largest private steel group in the Peoples Republic of China. For detection of oil and water pressures PBS pressure switches are being used. The transmitter, pressure...
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As the trend towards ever more powerful machines continues, ways of protecting them are also in need of constant development. Safe movement monitoring helps to keep risks to a minimum, as it not only enables...
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For a long time, it was a critical moment to both passengers and streetcar personnel when the doors of the Cobra series of streetcars in Zurich were closing. These vehicles featured a photoelectric sensor...
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Equipping adjacent machines with only one safety component is extremely economical. In the context of the Scanner Plus! campaign, SICK has adopted this approach as a mission, developing the Sim-4-Safety...
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Efficient flue gas cleaning is used in modern power stations. A secondary method used to reduce NOx is the SCR (selective catalytic reduction). Thanks to the unique SCR Bypass System from SICK, modern...
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