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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An autonomous transport robot that complies with all safety requirements, ensures an interruption-free material flow, optimizes internal logistics processes, lowers operating costs and works in outdoor...
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Inline quality control in battery production is a highly sought-after but also very demanding task in this complex process. This applies to various levels of battery manufacturing: electrode, cells, modules...
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For more than a decade SICK has been developing innovative software solutions for the demanding world of battery production. In this interview, Clifford Cox, an experienced safety expert at SICK, provides...
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To get things moving with automation, something also needs to move – automatically – in machines and systems. Movement alone is not sufficient, however. Robots, tool and packaging machines, industrial...
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Manufacturing electric vehicles requires close monitoring of fire hazards and the individual components that can cause them. By collaborating with infrared camera manufacturer FLIR, SICK was able to combine...
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In the complex production process for batteries used in electric vehicles and energy storage systems, sensors are required at many stations. They provide signals to control processes, protect assembly...
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Companies are increasingly faced with the challenge of making processes more efficient, designing more modular machines and reducing maintenance costs. The intelligent use of sensor and process data plays...
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SICK has been supplying quality assurance solutions for battery manufacturing for more than ten years. The company is now using the experience it has gathered to join forces with European battery manufacturers...
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The recycling division of Smurfit Westrock, a leading provider of paper-based packaging, faced challenges in accurately detecting and measuring heaps of waste paper in their bunkers. This information is...
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Continental and SICK have joined forces to achieve transparency in incoming goods at the automotive supplier’s facility in Regensburg. Building on a test version, the two partner companies gradually...
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Safe autonomous pallet transportation, maximum space utilization and high process efficiency – the robotics start-up Filics has developed a double skid system for logistics applications that is setting...
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The digitalization of logistics demands innovative approaches in order to raise efficiency, transparency and safety to a new level. This was achieved impressively at thyssenkrupp Rasselstein: Using state-of-the-art...
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Logistics companies face constant demand for fast and accurate parcel delivery. In order to meet the needs of its customers while also offering best-in-class performance, DB Schenker needed to modernize...
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As a producer of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) for transporting airplane modules during the production process, AIT demands absolute precision. For that reason, their customer-specific heavy-load AGVs...
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Processing bales during long working days can be a boring and exhausting task for farmers. New Holland, a leading manufacturer of agriculture machinery, sees the opportunity to automate the baling processes...
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Modern collaborative robots make it possible to efficiently automate production processes for which, until recently, this was still considered impossible. Thanks to the close collaboration between robot...
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Mobile robots – whether it be automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems or autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) – are playing an increasing important role in mobile intralogistics because they significantly...
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The best ideas come about when open-minded and hands-on people come together. It is in those moments that flashes of inspiration arise – moments that we create through collaboration with colleagues, customers...
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“Less costs and space requirements, a high level of investment certainty – as well as machine safety – in the electric drive technology area, HIPERFACE DSL is opening up a wide variety...
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JTA Connection from Finland is a leading supplier of tailored automation solutions for production and logistics. A key element: mobile robots that perform demanding tasks, such as the transport of goods,...
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Simple, networked, efficient – these are important keywords on the path to achieving automated PCB mounting. As a provider of sensor-based applications, SICK is familiar with the requirements of...
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Messer Austria in Gumpoldskirchen, Lower Austria produces gases for a range of applications from industry to medicine. There are many potential hazards at the site, so the company has to minimize all kinds...
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In an industrial landscape where logistics and outdoor applications are becoming increasingly autonomous, a robust edge-based software solution is essential. How can one develop an autonomous perception...
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The world is undergoing change. Digitalization is amplifying and accelerating this change in society and industry and having a significant impact on functional safety in the world of production. Dynamic...
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