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SICK’s Opens Doors of its Industry 4.0 Smart Factory to PPMA Visitors
27 September 2019
SICK is inviting show visitors to gain an exclusive behind-the-scenes insight into its pioneering industry 4.0 smart sensor production facility in Germany. For the first time SICK’s 4.0 Now factory will be opened to UK industry...
Using interactive links, visitors can learn about SICK’s real-world experiences of establishing a facility from scratch according to classic Industry 4.0 principles - demonstrating how companies of any size can achieve the benefits of a factory of the future, today!
The Industry 4.0 theme will continue on SICK’s stand (D64) with products show-casing the company’s latest Smart Sensor advances including Smart Tasks and Edge Processes that can communicate directly with the Cloud.
SICK’s range of PRIME photoelectric and contrast sensors will be among the high-performance and compact solutions specifically targeted at packaging machinery applications.
With SICK’s latest smart solutions for vision-guided robotics visitors can learn about easy set-up systems for pick-and-place processes, including 3D solutions such as the URCap and Beltpick for robot picking.
Further developments in its AppSpace platform to develop and pool software applications for smart programmable devices, such as their 2D and 3D vision sensors will be revealed, and the new 4Sight Automated Print Inspection System will also be on show.
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