Nov 29 2010
Sick has incorporated its ultra-small photoelectric sensing units on accumulated conveyors for precisely detecting ap-free boxes. The company’s TGW sensing products are highly condensed and its high-performance, secure solutions are ideal for the detection of carton boxes.
Photoelectric Sensors
TGW is a leading material handling provider for production, order picking warehousing and distribution and along with their American unit, they have fabricated a control processing system for facilitating the easy maintenance of carton boxes. The system features a pneumatic, low dynamic pressure roller conveyor with a logic module, allowing the rapid removal of the boxes autonomously or in a chain, from the conveyor.
A sensing unit incorporated into the conveyor permits reliable operation, requires less space, eliminates complex installation and can be coupled straightly to the logic module. Sick has provided their user-friendly, tiny photoelectric sensors for use in TGW’s new systems.
Sick’s compact sized Z sensor series photoelectric sensors were collaboratively devised with TGW for identifying the cartons to satisfy all the pre-requisites for a condensed structure with least installation effort. The compact architecture of the photoelectric devices permitted optimal integration in confined areas in the rolling conveyor sections.
The in-built ASIC technology enables effective detection with secure background suppression and reliability. Apart from this the unique optical nature of the sensor supervises various directions enabling enhanced detection.