With automated guided vehicles (AGVs), accuracy is critical for success. If the AGV can’t navigate to the exact location and perform a task, safety and productivity is at risk. The same can be said for a robot performing a task...
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How to Use a Safety Laser Scanner in a Vertical Application
Safety laser scanners are a versatile safety product for any manufacturing and production facility. Using the time-of-flight principle, the scanner calculates position based on the amount of time it takes for the laser to bounce...
Sensors for Selam
SICK AG Project Manager Gives Back to Children in Ethiopia At Selam Children’s Village, numerous people work to create a better life for the children in Ethiopia. SICK AG Project Manager, Carsten Rotzsch, is one of those people...
Fostering the Next Generation of Robotics and Automation Innovators
As the demand for robotics automation continues to grow, it has become increasingly important to provide support for small startups working to provide the industry with new and innovative solutions. As a result, SICK, Inc. is...
Retrofit Your Existing FLOWSIC600 Ultrasonic Gas Flow Meter with Gateway Technology
Currently, more than 3,000 of SICK’s FLOWSIC600 (FS600) ultrasonic gas flowmeters (now referred to as the “Classic”) are in operation in North America. As technology continues to advance and SICK works to continuously improve...
Five Comprehensive Sensor Services from SICK
As one of the world’s leading manufacturers of sensors and sensor solutions for factory, logistics, and process automation, SICK’s safety standards expertise, application knowledge, and services are unsurpassed. SICK supports its...
Cobots for a Smart Production Lines in Automotive Industry
How Continental, an automotive supplier, uses cobots to enhance production Much like other industries, the automotive industry is changing. With the increase in the variety of vehicle models, variants, and derivatives being...
Take your AGV outdoors
With the rise of AGVs in industrial automation, added flexibility to production flow is a growing need. But no longer do supply chain and logistics operations need to limit their processes to just indoors. SICK’s outdoorScan3...
Agricultural Robot Cares For 1,500 Plants
As the automation and robotics trend continues to rise in popularity, it is even permeating areas you'd least expect – agriculture. Founded in 2006, Optimalog develops PC-based specialized automation software, but is now...
Part localizer from SICK brings order to chaos
Testing and assembly specialist Kubik Automation from Baienfurt, Germany is putting SICK's part localizer, the PLOC2D robot guidance system to use in its new sCube assembly cell. The team of experienced industry experts...