
Sensors and industrial image processing
Sick and MVTec deepen strategic partnership
The leading automation technology and industrial image processing companies Sick and MVTec Software are intensifying their strategic cooperation.
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Sensors and industrial image processing
The leading automation technology and industrial image processing companies Sick and MVTec Software are intensifying their strategic cooperation.

Last year, sales of industrial robots exceeded the 486,000 mark, a new record. And this development is not stopping in other areas either: more and more simple, monotonous tasks have long been automated by robotics - and not just in large-scale industry.

SPS, which took place in Nuremberg from November 8-10, 2022, once again proved to all participants how relevant the platform is for the entire automation industry.

After the last edition of the Intec and Z industrial trade fairs could only be held as a virtual event due to the coronavirus pandemic, preparations for the face-to-face trade fairs from March 7 to 10, 2023 at Leipziger Messe are now in full swing.

Over 1000 exhibitors and a good visitor response at the start of the fair.

Components such as IO-Link master modules from ifm can be installed decentrally directly on the machine or system. For the power supply, the company will be presenting new power supply units with IP67 protection and an IO-Link interface at the SPS.

Sick is presenting sensor innovations for the industrial digital transformation at this year's SPS. At the trade fair stand, visitors from all sectors will get an overview of solutions for holistic safety and robotics applications, concepts for greater transparency in the operational flow of goods as well as vision and ID offerings.

Data generated by automation systems often remains unused. An edge-to-cloud IIoT solution makes it possible to access this valuable information.

In the course of digitalization, there is rightly a lot of talk about cybersecurity. But safety technologies have also made great progress with this development. Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Lumme, Product Manager Extreme at Steute Technologies, explains these developments in an interview with Andreas Mühlbauer.

In order to digitalize a company holistically, it is fundamental to network the office level with the production level. The challenge lies in linking the individual systems.