Overview: The document provides a comprehensive overview of SICK's sensor systems and services for industrial safety technology, emphasizing the integration of safety solutions throughout the machine lifecycle.
Competence and Quality: SICK is a leader in sensor technologies, offering high-quality safety solutions that include consultation, commissioning, and after-sales service, focusing on easy integration and comprehensive service.
Service Solutions: SICK offers international service solutions such as inspections, upgrades, maintenance, repair, and training to ensure safety and efficiency throughout the machine's lifecycle.
Safety Devices: The document details various safety devices including safety controllers, light curtains, laser scanners, and switches for applications like hazardous point protection and area protection.
Opto-Electronic Protective Devices: Recommended for processes requiring operator intervention, these devices enhance productivity and ergonomics while ensuring safety.
Safety Camera Systems: The V4000 Press Brake is highlighted as a camera-based safety system for bending presses, providing protective area monitoring.
Safety Light Curtains: Used for finger and hand protection, these curtains integrate machine functions and are applicable in presses, robots, and woodworking machines.
Single-Beam Photoelectric Safety Switches: These switches provide electro-sensitive access protection for robots, processing units, and high-bay warehouses.
Multiple Light Beam Safety Devices: Offering electro-sensitive access protection, these devices are used in robots, palletiser systems, and woodworking machines.
Safety Laser Scanners: These scanners monitor programmable areas without separate reflectors, suitable for stationary and mobile applications.
Safety Switches and Control Units: SICK offers a range of safety switches and control units for safe position monitoring and protection against manipulation.
Safety Operating Devices: These devices ensure safe shutdown of hazardous movements and activation of critical machine functions.
Integration and Networking: SICK provides interface products for integrating safety systems into automation environments, facilitating low-outlay integration.
Safety Relays: Designed for category 2 to 4 safety tasks, these relays are reliable, rugged, and easy to install, applicable for emergency stops and other safety-related components.
Specifications and Features: The document outlines safety controllers and network solutions for safety tasks of categories 2 to 4 according to EN 954-1, featuring easy interconnection, simple configuration, modular expansion, and diagnostic functions.
Products: Highlighted products include UE10–UE49 safety controllers, UE440/UE470, UE410 Flexi, and UE4470, with network solutions supporting DeviceNet Safety™, PROFIBUS/PROFIsafe, AS-Interface Safety at Work, and Ethernet.
Applications: Solutions are applicable for connecting opto-electronic protective devices, electro-sensitive and electromechanical safety switches, and actuators, suitable for press applications and safety evaluation devices.
Safexpert Software: Safexpert® software assists in compliance with the European Machinery Directive, simplifying documentation, saving time and costs, and integrating supplier components for safe machines.
Safety Project Management: Safexpert® versions include Basic, Compact, and Professional, offering safety project management, CE guidelines, hazard analysis, and document management.
Global Presence: SICK AG has a global presence with subsidiaries in numerous countries, providing comprehensive safeguarding solutions for personnel and machinery, setting new standards in safety technology.