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.
Who does not know the endless lines at the baggage counter of an airport? But help is on its way. Just as you can scan your own items at the supermarket today, it will be possible in future to check in...
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WTB12-3 Line photoelectric proximity sensors from SICK ensure 100-percent counting reliability in the counting and weighing machines for baked goods made by A&B Verpackungsmaschinen Manufaktur GmbH...
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Safety for automated guided vehicles on all paths and in all direction, combined with economic efficiency - this specification from the Spanish intralogistics provider ASTI is fulfilled by complete protection...
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In the context of plant modernizations, the Belgian French fries producer Lutosa cooperated with SICK to implement an intelligent concept at the plant in Leuze-en-Hainaut that provides maximum machine...
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Productivity of a machine is the key to efficient automation. Smart Sensor Solutions powered by IO-Link ensure consistency in automation networks, thus opening up potential for effective application solutions...
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The new MPA from SICK is the versatile solution for linear distance measurement and position detection of pistons in pneumatic drives. The analog positioning sensor delivers convincing performance due...
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More than 25,000 drivers decide each day to use the Liefkenshoektunnel. By doing so, they avoid traffic jams that often form on Ring 1 around Antwerp, Belgium. Today, the tunnel is the only toll road in...
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Using the function blocks specifically developed for integration of the AFS60 and AFM60 EtherNet/IP encoders into Rockwell controllers allows retrieving, reading, and partly writing (set and get) pre-installed...
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Navigating through interactive contents by movements of the hand like Tom Cruise in Minority Report - this is the dream that the Swiss Atracsys company has made a reality with the beMerlin LV. The LMS100...
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Hoisting walls are installations for lifting and lowering stage sets. In this connection, it is essential that the required path and position data be detected with great precision. ATM60 SSI absolute encoders...
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Anyone who believes to be part of the action in a 3D movie is well-advised to experience 4D cinema technology. Mobile cinema seats cause gravitational and centrifugal forces, among others, to impact the...
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Laser detectors from SICK already protect many museums, banks, public institutions, penitentiaries, and other important buildings. For these systems trigger alarm signals before break-ins can occur in...
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Safe and fast Internet connections, tamper-proof authentication methods, as well as intelligent sensors and controllers are the foundation of SICK Remote Services - the new service range offered for individual...
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Cutting, punching, and aligning - the KTM product family in the Prime and Core models offers tailor-made solutions for print mark detection and controlling of packaging processes, such as, e.g., positioning...
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The OD Mini is the ideal sensor solution when the issues that matter apart from precise measuring of small distances or detecting position changes in the µm range include compact construction size,...
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The LFP Cubic TDR level sensor works according to the principle of guided radar and is used, among other things, in containers of water treatment and purification plants or in tanks for hydraulic oil...
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In the testing processes for wireless radio modules of a producer known worldwide, the LECTOR®620 image-based code readers from SICK very reliably identify even poorly printed Data Matrix codes on...
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HAPs HelpRobot is a mobile and flexible robotics solution for handling tasks in the semiconductor industry. This robot, from Dresden located HAP GmbH, is being used at Infineon Technologies in Dresden...
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With its art treasures spanning seven millennia - from the earliest civilizations in ancient Egypt to the end of the eighteenth century - the Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna ranks among...
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Not only is the Igelsta plant one of Swedens largest biomass power plants; situated in a very scenic location near the entrance to the Baltic Sea, the plant received recognition as the Building of the...
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At the distribution center of Brazils market leader in the clothing sector, Lunender, tops and other items of clothing are identified from the top: with ICR880 image-based code readers - supplied and put...
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The Vienna Secession exhibition center, a union of visual artists, is presenting the Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt as part of its exhibition entitled "Close-up - Gustav Klimt / Gerwald Rockenschaub...
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With the FLOWSIC150 CARFLOW, SICK is offering an ultrasound exhaust flow meter for test bench applications in the field of automotive research and development for more than 10 years. Based on this...
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The PLB500 robot guidance system from SICK is the efficient, flexible, and easy-to-integrate solution for precise position determination of randomly placed parts in bins and boxes. On the first...
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