Safety scanners meet the challenge of fine wood flooring manufacturing

摘要

With industrial parquet manufacturing, fine wood flooring became affordable and available to anyone. The European parquet industry now produces over 80 million square metres of parquet flooring every year. To achieve this figure, there are stringent requirements for the systems used for automated wood processing. Sawdust and wood chippings are very challenging for conventional safety sensors, they are nonetheless expected to perform their tasks in terms of operational safety with both reliability and precision. One of the leading parquet manufacturers in Europe, Bauwerk Parkett AG, uses the new microScan3 safety laser scanner from Sick to make a stacking robot safe.