Guide To Suppliers

SICK has launched the world’s smallest safety laser scanner, the nanoScan3, designed for easy and economical integration into the smallest of machine designs, particularly for automated guided vehicles, carts, mobile platforms and service robots.

SICK is inviting PPMA Total Show visitors to gain an exclusive behind-the-scenes insight into its new Industry 4.0 smart sensor production facility in Freiburg, Southern Germany.

With a hygienic stainless-steel housing exclusively developed to meet stringent pharmaceutical industry requirements, the SICK TWINOX4 safety light curtain is resistant to aggressive cleaning and decontamination regimes.

A collaboration between SICK and AutoCoding Systems has resulted in the launch of the first fully-automatic smart vision inspection system for printed coding and marking on food, pharmaceutical and other consumer goods packaging.

With the launch of its Safe EFI-pro System, SICK has delivered standard industrial Ethernet-based safety network integration for highly-adaptive and dynamic safeguarding in automated production and logistics environments to SIL 3/PLe.

SICK has extended its LMS Bulkscan laser scanner offering, so that more users can benefit from non-contact, continuous measurement of volume and mass throughput of bulk materials on conveyor belts.

With the introduction of its SES and SEM absolute encoders, SICK has delivered a motor feedback system with the standard Hiperface interface that takes precision and reliability to the next level for hollow shaft motors and direct drives.

SICK’s modular solutions portfolio for mobile platforms now makes it possible to implement line guidance, navigation, positioning, environmental recognition, security and load handling with ease. From small AGVs or AGCs (automated guided carts) to specialised AGVs, the sensor solutions from SICK cover the entire spectrum of automated guided vehicles.