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.
This year, the focus was on digitalization, robotics, logistics and safety. Even if on-site events were the exception and online events the norm, you could still meet us on many occasions. We...
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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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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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GO BEYOND. Discovery #12 A lot of data is not used. But even existing machines and plants can be upgraded with modern sensor and communication technology. Bring your data to light with the TDC. It...
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It’s wobbling concerningly, but this stacking on top of one another is unavoidable due to lack of space. The automatic stacking of goods in a bulk storage area continues to pose technical challenges...
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GO BEYOND. Discovery #11 Upgrading of SMEMA Eguipment made easy: "The Hermes Standard" is a modern machine-to-machine communication protocol, tailor-made for PCB assembly lines. With its...
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GO BEYOND. Discovery #10 Packaging technology has the highest demands on dynamics and availability. Every avoided unscheduled downtime allows the customer to significantly save on operating costs...
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What began in 2015 with the Audi A8 is now standard for all production processes at Audi in Neckarsulm in Southern Germany. From body shop to delivery, all models carry a “personal ID” with...
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RoviMo® is the world’s first fully electric, CO2 emissions free autonomous multi-purpose robot for large green spaces. The idea for an autonomous robot vehicle for maintaining sports fields,...
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GO BEYOND. Discovery #9 Safety Laser Scanner Visualization is the fastest way to visualize data from safety laser scanners. The ideal software solution for visualizing and analyzing all diagnostic...
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DS Smith, a worldwide leading provider of sustainable packaging solutions, paper products and recycling services, needed to upgrade an end-of-line monitoring solution to automate a labor-intensive process,...
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GO BEYOND. Discovery #8 Ensuring sustainability and reducing energy consumption are crucial in practically every industry. Since the company was founded 75 years ago, SICK AG has been developing sensor...
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More efficiency in the warehouse through automation: This is one of the requirements of customers on Jungheinrich. Using safety components from SICK, the intralogistics specialist Jungheinrich is transforming...
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Fabian Schmidt, Head of Digital Manufacturing at SICK, explains how, for him, a “growth mindset”, meaningful digitalization and delivering promised benefits are connected...
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GO BEYOND. Discovery #7 Anyone who wants to integrate IO-Link devices into controls and access device parameters or collect diagnostic information in the process has to program many acyclical requests...
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