INDUSTRY UPDATE
Real-Time Plastic Bottle Recycling Monitoring Application Helps Meet
European Sustainability Goals R
esearch from Euromonitor International indicates that
SICK’s Smart Light Tower Sheds Light on Efficiencies S
ICK has reimagined the industrial light stack as a versatile and customisable Smart Light Tower that
can be easily set up with a wide range of parameters to communicate the real-time operational and maintenance status of machinery. The SICK Smart Light Tower exploits the benefits of
IO-Link so that both machine builders and end users can easily program real-time displays and audible signals to support wide-ranging operational, maintenance, and management goals. The SICK Smart Light Tower can be easily installed via a single cable and an IO-Link Master, and programmed through an intuitive graphical interface with a standard PC. The SICK Smart Light Tower uses three operating
modes: signal light, level meter, or animation to communicate the run status of machines and alert operating personnel to maintenance tasks or emergency conditions. It can be fitted to a wide variety of fixed machinery, as well as on mobile vehicles such as AGVs (automated guided vehicles) and AMRs (autonomous mobile robots), offering the benefit of long-distance
visibility to enable a management overview of several machines over a production or logistics hall. “Setting up a SICK Smart Light Tower is limited only
by your imagination,” explains Charlie Walker, SICK’s UK Product Specialist – Presence Detection. “Where traditional light towers are restricted by a modular assembly of different colours at set positions, the SICK Smart Light Tower has 20 sets of LEDs that can be programmed to display any of 21 colours, either illuminated continuously or flashing, strobing or pulsating at user-selectable frequencies. “IO-Link connectivity offers the cost saving benefits
of using unshielded cables and fewer input and output cards. The Smart Light Tower can be quickly integrated into the PLC program to display higher-level management and performance data. We have even demonstrated its ability to indicate a real-time calculation of overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).”
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consumers around the world purchased an estimated 583.3 billion PET bottles in 2021. Most of these bottles will end up in landfills or the ocean, where they pollute the soil, waterways, and atmosphere. Plastic marine debris in particular has an acutely detrimental effect on marine ecology and causes considerable damage to the environment. In an effort to mitigate this crisis, Germany began using deposit return schemes that encourage public PET bottle recycling in 2003. As many as 38 other countries have implemented similar schemes. Advantech began working with one of a number of European companies participating in this trend in 2018. They hoped this collaboration would produce
recycling solutions that help more organizations protect the Earth. Yuan Lee, Product Sales Manager at Advantech
Europe, pointed out that easing participation is the key to improving PET bottle recycling rates. Improving the convenience of recycling, and ensuring access—at any time, from anywhere— necessitates the deployment of numerous recycling machines and the utilization of IoT technology.
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