Sensors

Smart sensors have become indispensable to modern industrial transportation systems: RFID devices ensure a seamless identification solution in line with Industry 4.0 throughout the entire value creation process. Complete transparency and planning certainty will play an increasingly important role for companies in the future. SICK produces sensors that have to resist challenging target applications with […]

95% of all the industrially produced flat glass today is made using the float glass process. In this process, molten glass is continuously fed into a bath of molten tin. Due to its lower specific weight the molten glass floats on the smooth tin surface, and on a long tin bath forms a uniformly thick […]

During automated packaging, high-speed thermoforming lines produce transparent plastic blister- rays from continuous reel-stock material. Transparent-object sensors with patented UV technology detect the presence of the transparent plastic sheet as it is unwound, ensuring the material is correctly tensioned as it enters the loading station. False detection is avoided, ensuring reliable operation with little or […]

In highly automated systems in intralogistics and production, precise monitoring and measurement of distances is essential for smooth running in daily operation. Distance sensors are used for this purpose in, for example, stack height measurements, quality assurance in assembly lines or for positioning of vehicles. We offer a comprehensive product range of optical distance sensors […]

Volumetric Linear Safety Barrier The LBK System has been designed for use around hazardous machinery and robot automated areas providing perimeter or area access detection. An affordable SIL2 Volumetric Linear Safety Barrier, the LBK System is built around FMCW radar smart sensors, with dynamically configurable presence sensing areas (warning +danger). Suited for application where smoke, […]

For the detection of welding seams, contrast or color sensors would seem to be the proper solution, because in most cases the welding seam optically shows a clear difference from the surrounding product surface. In everyday practice, however, it turns out that these methods involve frequent readjustment and reparameterization. On the one hand this is […]

Typical application solutions for automatic high-lift trucks, platform vehicles and tractor vehicles Automated guided vehicles (AGV) must transport material or goods from A to B quickly, safely and autonomously. Depending on the application and type of material to be transported, an automatic high-lift truck, a platform vehicle or a tractor vehicle may be best suited. […]

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