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Highly productive and dynamic automation depends on optimizing the flow of materials between individual processes. Achieving close to a continuous flow is the ultimate aim, including at the end of a production line where goods need to be packed, palletized and transferred for onward distribution. Sick’s Safe Portal is a pre-certified solution, originally developed for material transfer stations in automotive assembly. Courtesy: Sick, Control Engineering Europe

Safety, productivity can be compatible for machine control applications

Discrete Manufacturing

European Machinery Directive helps with safe machinery speeds