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No more long lines at the airport baggage counter: BAGXPress automatic...
Who does not know the endless lines at the baggage counter of an airport? But help is on its way. Just as you can scan your own items at the supermarket today, it will be possible in future to check in...
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Sim-4-Safety: world’s first safety design allows monitoring of up to four...
Equipping adjacent machines with only one safety component is extremely economical. In the context of the Scanner Plus! campaign, SICK has adopted this approach as a mission, developing the...
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Double winner in design contests: deTec4 Core safety light curtain combines...
Featuring pure functionality combined with convincing styling, the deTec4 Core safety light curtain from SICK won no fewer than two well-known design contests at once. The electro-sensitive protective...
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Preventing fall accidents: Unique simulator identifies causes of falls
Every year more than a million fall accidents are registered per year.The medical product developer BAAT Medical has built a unique fall simulator, which is equipped with safety components from SICK,...
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Parking in the future: Intelligent sensors control autonomous parking robot
Drivers are familiar with winding around annoying curves in the parking garage until finally sighting an open spot. If the driver has a plane or train to catch, this can be especially unpleasant. This...
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Intelligent determination between goods and people: E. Leclerc protects...
Actemium Logistics provides automated solutions such as picking, conveying and sorting, WMS integration for companies working in logistics. As a means of securing access to a palletizing system for E....
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Level measurement for bubbling, spattering media
52 dip tanks with 80 approach positions fed by three automatic carriages. That’s exactly what printed circuit board specialist Varioprint AG based in Heiden, Switzerland, has been benefitting from in...
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The „PLUS“ in machine safety: functional safety as added value
How to combine safety and productivity? What international developments are taking place in the field of machine safety and how is SICK responding to them? An interview with Dr. Georg Plasberg, Head of...
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Better and faster packaging processes for foil rolls
At its Apeldoorn site in the Netherlands, the Loparex Group – which operates around the world – manufactures top-quality foils for the medical, graphics, and composite materials markets, to name a few....
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Market leader for cigar production facilities relies on SICK
On the outskirts of the Dutch village of Duizel lie the administrative buildings and production halls of ATD Machinery B.V. It is here, in the buildings of the cigar manufacturer Royal Agio Cigars,...
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Detecting with ‘(through)sight’ – automating with foresight
Transparent plastic packaging, bottles made of glass or PET, ampoules, pipettes, flat, tubular, and hollow glass, films for securing loads on pallets: In many manufacturing processes, automators must...
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Heading towards the future
In many industries, automated guided vehicles and vehicle systems are making production and logistics processes more flexible. When these vehicles have to be controlled with greater efficiency and...
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FUNCTIONAL SAFETY IN HUMAN/ROBOT COLLABORATIONS
One of the major issues associated with Industry 4.0 is making workflows flexible and that includes closer interaction between humans and machines. Part of this current move toward more integrated...
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