Each seminar session is taken by one of the SICK product specialist team - each with many years experience in their field:

Industrial Sensors - Phil Dyas
Encoders/Distance Sensors - Darren Pratt
Vision Systems - David Hannaby, Neil Sandhu
Safety Systems - Seb Strutt
Bar Code Systems/RFid - Tim Stokes
Logistics Systems - Mark Harris

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This presentation explains some of the common mistakes and demonstrates new, flexible technology to overcome the most common problems, including a revolutionary non-muting light curtain.

With much speculation, and a lot of hype in the press, many of us are left confused about which technology to choose. This presentation explores the considerations one must make when deciding on an auto ident system and offers a brief explanation of the 3 main technologies.

Smaller production batches and more frequent product changeovers can have a detrimental effect on machine utilisation. This seminar investigates ways of speeding up the changeover process to ensure machine utilisation is maximised.

Could vision save your company money, improve your process or the quality of the products you produce? We will demonstrate through cases studies and live examples how and why vision can pay.

An unbiased introduction to the safety controls available to users today, together with application examples. The latest hardwired solutions, programmable controllers and distributed IO networks, based on open platforms such as Profibus, DeviceNet and ASI will be reviewed. New standards will be highlighted and the essential differences from BS EN 954-1.

SICK is your technology partner for sensors and identification systems to optimise material flow processes in sortation and warehousing. Profit from our experience and know-how to achieve the best results for your logistics and distribution systems. See the latest developments in identification capture and dimensioning technology and their applications.

Why are some registration marks more difficult to detect than others? What does the sensor actually see? How can I be sure that I can detect a new film? All these questions and more will be answered. This session will show you how to set-up the sensor both quickly and accurately.

This session will demonstrate how using 3D technology, instead of the traditional 2D approach, has improved quality and reduced costs in production and process applications by adding height, profile and volume to their inspection criteria. Covering the basic techniques involved and the options available to integrate these systems into production lines. Application examples showing how a number of companies have benefited from using 3D inspection.

The introduction of reliable, cost effective, non-contact high accuracy measurement systems which can operate at high speed enables the automation of product inspection tasks in a wide range of production processes. This seminar will focus on recent applications of this technology in the Automotive, Electronics, Pharmaceutical, Food and Beverage industries.

Bar code validation code quality and accurate sell by date information are all hot topics these days. With the major retailers relying on high first time read rates in their automatic sortation hubs, there are strict penalties for suppliers whose codes are unreadable. Another concern is the danger of supplying incorrectly labelled items when running similar shaped products on the same production line. Sick have solutions to prevent these mix ups and will be discussing ways to maintain bar code quality, ensure correct labelling and sell-by-dates.