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Production logistics get smart
Closing the circle - Sensor solutions in production logistics - even for the smallest spaces in production


Outdoor safety
Overcome boundaries
Achieving a high level of productivity is a primary concern of our customers, not only for indoor but also outdoor applications. The fields of application range from monitoring hazardous areas in the “outside world” right through to interconnected logistics processes inside and outside buildings.

Working together as equals
Sensor solutions for robotics
Humans and robots are working more closely together. Sensors help robots make more intelligent decisions and give them the ability to sense objects, the environment, or their own position. Thanks to sensors from SICK, robots perceive more precisely - the prerequisite for close collaboration. For all challenges in the field of robotics: Robot Vision, Safe Robotics, End-of-Arm Tooling, and Position Feedback.


Industry 4.0 is picking up speed
Sensor solutions for mobile vehicles and carts
Automated flexibility for mobile vehicles and carts: Our modular solutions portfolio for mobile platforms now makes it possible to implement line guidance, navigation, positioning, environmental recognition, security and load handling with ease.







Select your solution
You will find the right applications here
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Collection and disposal of waste wood
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Cutting saw and pallet handling
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Edge banding machine
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Finger jointing
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Infeed and profile measurement
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Log sorting
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Panel dividing saw
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Planing and profiling
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Robot handling and intermediate buffer
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Saw line
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Sorting timber
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Storage and handling
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Storage and transport
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Stripping veneer
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Throughfeed drilling technology and CNC machining center
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Varnishing machine
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Wide-belt sanding machine
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Width cutting
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Overview

Achieving more with intelligent sensors
Trends & news

Cutting-edge technology - SicoCam with SICK AppSpace
Costly manual measurement of raw chipboards is a thing of the past. The SicoCam inline board measurement system from Siempelkamp Logistics & Service GmbH now measures wooden composite boards in a continuous cycle. It also includes four programmable InspectorP65x high-performance cameras from SICK and SICK AppSpace. They supply measured values for calculating the board size and adjusting the saws. This increases the quality of the manufactured boards, decreases the amount of rejections, and boosts productivity. It also improves workplace safety.

Stacking always results in chippings
Sawdust and wood chips make the use of conventional safety sensors more difficult in automated wood-processing plants. Sensors are nonetheless expected to perform their tasks in terms of operational safety with both reliability and precision. One of the leading parquet manufacturers in Europe, Bauwerk Parquet, therefore uses the microScan3 safety laser scanner to make their stacking robot safe. Its innovative safeHDDM® scanning technology makes it immune to wood chips.
Challenges

Safety
The harsh environments in the wood industry, where flying wood chips, splinters and sawdust pose a particular challenge, demand reliable, intelligent and flexible safety solutions. With its wide range of safety technology, SICK is able to guarantee the highest possible operational safety. SICK also offers a comprehensive range of services including advice, assistance during commissioning, as well as training and education. These help optimize productivity in the wood industry, and avoid machine downtimes.

Quality control
The natural properties of wood, and the fast and interconnected production processes require a broad product portfolio of object localization, identification and measurement devices. Reliability is an important requirement for each of these different processes, which poses a highly challenging task for quality control. SICK's distance sensors, 2D and 3D vision sensors, and vision systems support nearly every type of object monitoring.

Track and trace
SICK's innovative solutions for material identification and material tracking make it possible to implement a transparent flow of information and material along the entire value-adding chain in the wood-processing industry. This enables a wide variety of manufacturing processes to be synchronized, thereby allowing individualized and networked production in fully automated production lines.

Flexible automation
The trend towards small batch sizes and meeting individual customer requirements necessitates flexible and also automated production lines. The intelligent and communicative sensors from SICK make this kind of customized manufacturing possible in a mass production environment. By using state-of-the-art sensor technologies and fully integrating them into the control level, the machine production processes can be configured down to the sensor level.