It’s almost time to ring in the New Year, but first we wanted to take a look back at 2019! Here's a quick recap of nine manufacturing industry reads from the SICK blog in 2019. Top Applications of Safety Light Curtains Opto...
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Webinar: The Latest Trends in LiDAR
From robotics to the factory floor, LiDAR technology is commonplace in industrial automation. In recent years, LiDAR technology has become more heavily used on autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). But there are many other...
Tailor-Made Production Makes Industry 4.0 Possible
Are you ready for the factory of the future? Look no further than SICK’s factory in Freiburg, Germany where Industry 4.0 comes to life. State-of-the-art sensor solutions have been implemented to improve manufacturing processes...
Taking a Safe Step toward Industry 4.0
Achieve optimum safety and productivity for autonomous mobile robots and collaborative robots Modern manufacturing has become an information-transparent environment. It is designed to facilitate asset management and increase...
Technical Training: Deracking with Robotics
With robotics automation, an efficient, cost-effective, and accurate production line is possible. Robot guidance systems help eliminate expensive and labor-intensive processes, allowing workers to perform tasks of greater value...
Cobots: Your New Automation Partner
Sensors help control the collaborative robots of the future The ongoing development of small, powerful, and flexible robots that collaborate with humans is progressing in leaps and bounds. These robots, often referred to as...
Safety Light Curtains Are More Than a Commodity
See all of the safety light curtains capabilities to collect and communicate data from your manufacturing processes In 1951, Dr. Erwin Sick presented the first wooden model of a light curtain at a trade fair in Munich, Germany...
2D vs. 3D Machine Vision: Which One is Right for You?
Do you know the difference between 2D vs. 3D machine vision? Both types of vision sensors make notable improvements to industrial automation processes by performing positioning, inspection, measuring, and reading tasks with a...
SICK’s outdoor safety laser scanner named finalist for 2020 Engineers’ Choice Awards
Every year, Control Engineering magazine names finalists for innovative and new products in industrial automation. The Engineers’ Choice Award is an annual reader-choice program, created to provide Control Engineering readers...
Universal Robot Language Leads to More Effective Human-Robot Collaborations
Open source robotics framework used in industrial and non-industrial applications Effective communication isn’t just important between humans. Communication between humans and machines, robots and machine controls, and...