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July 2021 Newsletter: FOCUS ON SAFETY

INCREASE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY WITH OUR SAFETY SOLUTIONS

DETEC4 SAFETY LIGHT CURTAIN CONFIGURATOR, MAKING PRODUCT CHOICE SIMPLE!

SICK's deTec safety light curtains are ideal for the protection of hazardous areas, hazardous points and entrances. And they come complete with Intelligent, state-of-the-art technologies. But how do you go about putting the correct system together? Watch how easy it is with our Safety Light Curtain Configurator.  The fastest way to your system configuration.

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SICK’S WORLD-FIRST SOLID-STATE SAFETY SCANNER FOR SMALL AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES 
The ScanGrid2 first multibeam safety scanner in the world to use safe, solid-state LiDAR technology, enabling small autonomous vehicles and line-guided shuttle systems to operate quickly and productively. Its compact design and smart functions also ensure quick and simple installation, configuration and diagnostics. Simply revolutionary!
 
SICK’S FLEXI COMPACT, NEAT AND COMPACT MID-RANGE SAFETY CONTROLLER
SICK has added the Flexi Compact to its portfolio of industry-leading safety controllers, featuring a modular, compact and scalable design that focuses on space-saving, responsive performance. Planning and commissioning a machine safety configuration is fast and efficient with the Flexi Compact using SICK’s free-to-use Safety Designer engineering tool.
 
INCREASE SAFETY OF PACKAGING MACHINES WITH THE MODULAR SAFEGUARD DETECTOR 
With packaging machines, there is a danger of the operator reaching through the empty magazine and into the machine while it's running, particularly when it comes to material transportation (e.g., for flat carton blanks). SICK's modular Safeguard Detector system stops this from happening with no loss of productivity. And at a lower cost compared to complex mechanical protection!  
 
THE NEW IQB2S: SICKS MINIATURE SAFETY INDUCTIVE IS A SNUG FIT  
The IQB2S family of inductive safety switches provides designers and operators with a unique non-contact device as small as a matchbox. Perfect for the smallest of machine spaces. It uses non-contact activation by metallic machine parts to achieve reliable, safe position, presence and area monitoring in commonplace production and logistics safety applications. 
 
CFSAT: NEW CERTIFIED FUNCTIONAL SAFETY TRAINING FOR TECHNICIANS
Would you like to have your Machine Safety knowledge accredited with a recognized safety qualification? SICK is now offering the certified CFSAT training course by SGS-TÜV Saar.  This comprehensive classroom based course taught by SICK machine safety experts is a well-thought-out combination of theory, practice and interaction. Dates: 17 -19 Aug.