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.
GO BEYOND. Discovery #19 Realize the full potential of intelligent sensors: Applications for which it was previously very difficult to achieve consistently robust and repeatable quality inspections...
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The automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) from Steering Machines significantly increase productivity in industrial environments –thanks to the help of SICK sensor solutions...
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Applying labels to pallets in conventional logistics centers is a mundane, time-consuming manual task, not entirely without risk. Forklift operators must exit their cabs to label and scan every single...
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Swift, accurate handling of cartons, such as depalletizing and picking, has become even more crucial in these pandemic-stricken times. Amid global lockdowns, the logistics industry is burgeoning as the...
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More and more, autonomous robots are shaping our everyday lives and routines. They mow lawns, vacuum living rooms and clean windows, and can even do this non-stop if needed. But what MetraLabs has in its...
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Quality assurance through programmed imaging: The Schwabach company RIBE Anlagentechnik develops innovative assembly systems, including inspection systems, for bumpers. SICK´s machine vision helps...
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Electricity from renewable sources is subject to strong fluctuations and cannot be stored. The solution is a “workaround”: Green power can be used to create hydrogen which is transported and...
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GO BEYOND. Discovery #18 Decentralized decision-making, autonomous execution: IO-Link opens up the possibility for utilizing the functionality of intelligent sensors for automation in an easy and...
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With ever-changing healthcare regulations, the clinical diagnostics industry and its suppliers must be ready to jump through exacting hoops. Around the world there are numerous certification standards,...
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Rarely has a gap filler been so innovative: Robotics company Magazino developed the new SOTO, a supply chain robot for those in-between areas of production that have not been automated until now. Together...
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Cleanrooms in semiconductor manufacturing are clearly their domain: robots are the order of the day here in all their various guises. Track-guided, stationary or mobile, they assist with production and...
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GO BEYOND. Discovery #17 Logistics processes in warehouses and production are becoming increasingly complex. At the same time, the demands on process quality and productivity remain high. Asset localization...
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In 75 years, SICK has grown from a small southern German company to a global player with more than 10,000 employees. How can SICK maintain the balance between the global network and its local nodes? What...
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GO BEYOND. Discovery #16 Serialization codes are used in incoming and outgoing goods to check and comply with legal requirements. Such requirements vary from country to country - in the EU, for example,...
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In an intensive joint development process, SICK and its customer Syntegon Technology successfully designed the ideal light grid for the demanding sterile processes in the pharmaceutical industry. When...
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GO BEYOND. Discovery #15 New fields of application, new sensor solutions: The digital transformation of industry presents us with new challenges every day. In the development of concept sensors, customers...
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Dr. Sick would be 112 years old now, and still ahead of his time – with his aspiration to do good for the world and all people by means of technical progress. We celebrate our 75-year jubilee this...
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For many years now the Netherlands, and in particular the Dutch province of Zeeland, have been protected against North Sea high tides by the Delta Works. The Oosterschelde barrage has been playing an especially...
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is growing in demand as businesses look for more detailed real time data accuracy on their inventory while consumers care more about the product authenticity...
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GO BEYOND. Discovery #14 An old dream of mankind: predicting the future. At SICK, however, this has nothing to do with a dream. Rather, intelligent prediction models succeed with the help of the...
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A bundled light beam reveals the protagonists in the dark – or presents them in the best light figuratively speaking. What works on the stages of this world offers something of a blueprint for the...
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GO BEYOND. Discovery #13 SICK Solution World opened its doors for the first time in October 2021. Well-known exhibitors, pioneers and speakers, as well as anyone interested in digital transformation,...
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Mitsubishi Electric and SICK have been collaborating closely for a number of years and have just extended this successful cooperation: SICK is now an official partner in Mitsubishi Electric’s ...
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