The packaging industry needs sensors and sensor systems that are designed for complex, frequently changing tasks, while meeting increasingly demanding brand protection, safety and documentation requirements. From the robust, IP69K photoelectric switches for detecting glass, through intelligent camera sensors for inspecting the position of packaging components, to complex laser systems for controlling loading robots – SICK systems meet your requirements in every way. With considerable advantages regarding performance, networkability and flexibility.
Identifying transparent objects (e.g. PET bottles), coping with contamination, detecting positions in the process, and all of this at high speeds – the robust sensors from SICK have been “at home” in rotative filling systems for decades and offer correspondingly optimized performance.
Composite cartons have proved ideal (because hygienic), nutrition-retaining, economical and logistically advantageous primary packaging of drinks, dairy products and other liquid foods. The steps from the box to correctly filled packaging are many and varied. Leading in the process – from start to finish: efficient sensor solutions from SICK.
The sensors in bag packaging machines control the cutting of the bags, regulate their filling, and check the sell-by date. The solution for the entire process chain is illustrated here using the example of cereal packaging.
Inserting a variety of chocolates correctly and rapidly in the right mix is a task whose solution requires a highly complex robot system. Motor feedback systems from SICK are ideal “feelers” for all pick & place robots.
Attaching small, thin labels and reliably checking them, even if they are strongly reflective is critical for a labelling machine. Photoelectric sensors and photoelectric proximity sensors provide the necessary sensitivity to allow them to shine in labelling machines – reliably at maximum work speeds.
The cartoning of articles is a complex process, in which SICK sensors take on the most varied of tasks. IO Link, the innovative interface from SICK, ensures maximum process efficiency and rapid, comfortable conversion during format changes.
The pharmaceutical industry cannot afford any mistakes – neither in primary nor in secondary packaging of medicaments. SICK sensors recognize all poorly printed codes and reliably inform the machine controller.