H18 SURESENSE
PHOTOELECTRIC SENSOR
Product Introduction
WHAT IS IT?
H18 SURESENSE PHOTOELECTRIC SENSOR
 H18 SureSense is a complete family hybrid of M18 mounting photoelectric sensors.
 SureSense delivers best-in-class performance and includes on-board diagnostics for easy setup.
 SureSense should be your first choice to detect any object.
▸ H18 SureSense key messages:
― Signal Strength Light Bar – For optimal performance at all times, the light bar immediately lets you know when maintenance or
alignment is an issue.
― Configurable – With so many standard options to choose from, you can virtually configure these sensors to exactly meet
customers’ needs. Made in the USA, these options are all available for quick shipment.
― Reliable/Durable – Constructed with SICK’s proprietary VISTAL housing, the sensors, including variants that are rated IP 69K,
stand up to the most punishing environments.
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H18 SURESENSE
SIGNAL STRENGTH LIGHT BAR
Fast and simple installation
 Immediately know when your sensor is aligned to the optimal position
▸ Long distance through-beam and reflex
▸ Optimal alignment helps in applications with vibrations, shock and airborne contaminants
Immediate feedback about object reflectivity with proximity sensors (BGS and Energetic)
 Continuous visual indication of signal strength
 Real-time feedback about the sensing stability based on the adjusted switching point
Signal strength light bar optimizes setup
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H18 SURESENSE
CONFIGURABLE
Easy model number configuration
Standard Model Configuration
 “Build your own sensor”
▸ Choose from a list of outputs, cables, connectors,
software, light type
▸ No limited list of PNs to choose from
Respond quickly to customer requests
 Immediately build a new model number and price
 Configure and ship new variants within 5 days when
defined in standard model configuration
Who to contact:
 Configure product – Applications
 Price and Availability - Inside Sales
SICK will respond quickly to replace high variability of competitive units
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H18 SURESENSE
RELIABLE & DURABLE
VISTAL housing – stands up to rugged applications
− Highly rigid fiberglass reinforced plastic that is 9 times stronger
than typical plastic sensor housings
IP 69K ingress rating – built to last in extreme conditions
− 100 bar high-pressure jet cleaning
− 16 liters per minute
− 80 °C water temperature
− 100 mm distance to unit under test
− Test with spray angle of 0°, 30°, 60°, and 90° with the unit
under test rotating (5 revolutions per minute)
SICK will respond quickly to replace high variability of competitive units
Date
Name | Event | Confidential
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KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS
H18 SURESENSE PHOTOELECTRIC SENSOR
Feature
Benefit
One sensor for all your
applications
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Flexible mounting, great optical performance and AC/DC
all wrapped into one
Signal strength light bar
Key differentiator!
Competitors do not have this feature
Configurable
Reduce installation complexity
Reliable/Durable VISTAL and IP 69K
69K
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Detect any object with one sensor family
Standardize mounting designs, setup procedures,
part numbers and suppliers
Eliminate the need for different sensors, mounting
to solve AC voltage needs
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Fast and simple alignment
Continuous visual indication of signal strength during operation
Optimized to improve performance in dusty, washdown
environments
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Modular design and local production, ensures quick delivery on the products you need
products you need
Efficiently replace many different sensors with one sensor family
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Withstands extremely harsh environments, reducing replacement costs and downtime
SureSense - the one sensor for all your applications
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PHOTOELECTRIC SENSORS
PRODUCT FAMILIES – FOCUS PRODUCTS
Value
Complete offerings
W12
W27
W9
W4
WLL180
H18
WTT280L
W18
W2
W15
Z
ELF
GR18
H18 Suresense is SICK’s latest complete sensor family
with LED, infrared and laser
Performance & Offering
SureSense is your first choice for nearly any application
H18 SURESENSE
TARGET APPLICATIONS
Material Handling
▸ Reflex Versions
― Sortation
― Conveying
― Lane full detection
▸ BGS/Energetic Versions
― Right angle transfer
― Cross belt sorters
▸ Through-Beam Version
― Shoe sorter
Quick installation, easy alignment, high reliability
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H18 SURESENSE
TARGET APPLICATIONS
Consumer goods:
▸ BGS and Reflex Versions
― Case packing, Cartoning, Palletizers, Stretch wrappers
▸ Clear Object Versions
― PET bottle detection
― Filling & bottle detection
▸ Laser Version
― Cocked cap detection
― Open flap detection
SureSense – clear objects and small targets
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H18 SURESENSE
TARGET APPLICATIONS
Machine Building
▸ Robotic handling – presence detection
▸ Machine tool – tool and target detection
▸ Lumber & woodworking – dusty environments
SureSense – reliable performance in tough conditions
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COMPETITIVE POSITIONING
PRODUCT POSITIONING VS. COMPETITION
 SureSense is the product to take market share from
competitors
▸ Better performance than Banner and AB at competitive
cost point
▸ Wider product offering and better performance at lower
cost point than Keyence
 SureSense will help you win by:
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Delivering the widest hybrid sensor product offering
Offering the family at a competitive cost point
Creating meaningful differentiation
Improving the “non-product” offering
SureSense delivers market leading performance
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H18 SURESENSE
COMPETITIVE COMPARISON
SICK
Banner
AB
Keyence
IFM
P&F
SureSense
Mini-beam
World-Beam
RightSight
PZ-G
PR-G / LR-Z
OG
ML17
Thru-Beam
25m
30m
20m
20m
40m
30m
20m
20m
Thru-Beam Laser
60m
4m
3.5m
Sensing Mode
Technology
15m
Reflex
Polarized
6.5m
3m
3.5m
Reflex Laser
Polarized
12m
Reflex
Non-Polarized
6.5m
5m
Reflex
Clear Material
0.1 - 3m
1m
Reflex
Clear
w/AutoAdapt
Yes
Diffuse
Energetic
1m
0.38m
Diffuse
FGS
0.3m
0.2m
Diffuse
BGS
0.3m
0.3m
Diffuse
BGS laser
0.4m*
0.25m
Diffuse
Fixed-Distance
3m
10m
6.5
0.8m
4.5m
4.2m
1m
1m
0.7m
1m
4.2m
6.5m
0.5m
0.45m
0.24m
0.1m
0.2m
0.1m
0.25m
50,100,150,200mm
0.049m
0.043m
0.043m
Status Indication
Light Bar / LED
LED
LED
LED
LED
LED / Display
LED
LED
Enclosure Rating
IP67 / IP69K
IP67
IP67
IP67 / IP69K
IP67 / IP69K
IP67 / IP69K
IP67
IP67
Operating Temp
-40 to 70 C
-20 to 70C
-20 to 50 C
-25 to 70C
-20 to 55C
-20 to 70C
-25 to 60C
-20 to 55C
Housing Material
VISTAL
ABS
ABS
PUV
ABS
Zinc
Zinc
ABS
Pot
Buttons
Buttons / Pot
Buttons / Pot
Pot
Pot
Buttons
Pot
Adjustment
*NOTE: BGS laser - 0.125m at launch,, 0.4m early 2016
Detect any object with a single family
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
H18 SURESENSE PHOTOELECTRIC SENSOR
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Where does this product fit in the existing family offering?
▸ SureSense compliments the W4, W9, W12 families with a full optical offering in a M18 hybrid mounting design. Additionally with an AC rating, the H18 is
ideal for retrofit applications and compliments the W2000, W27, R-Sensor and G10 AC/DC offerings.
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What customer needs does this new product address?
▸ Reliability & performance - IP 69K and VISTAL housing stands up to the most challenging applications. In addition to improved reflex and through-beam
performance, the signal strength light bar provides visual indication of setup – this results in shorter installation and in greater reliability for machine
performance.
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Are there specific applications we should be focused on for this launch?
▸ Any machine builder or end user, especially clear material and small targets requiring laser. AC applications, including retrofit, in addition to customers
who prefer not to use a Class II (100 Watt) DC power supply.
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What pain points should I question for users of competitive products?
▸ Customers who use multiple sensor families/suppliers to solve different applications: Would they benefit from reduced mounting and setup complexity?
SureSense offers a complete family.
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Does this product have specific diagnostic capabilities for early visibility to potential downtime?
▸ Marginal excess gain health output can activate a remote alarm.
▸ Signal strength light bar provides visual indication of operating environment, flashing status LED provides visual warning when signal strength is
degrading or signal is marginal (flashing LED).
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CONTACT INFORMATION
• Please visit www.sickusa.com/suresense for more information about SureSense photoelectric sensors,
including catalog# 8018449.
For specific inquiries, please call 1-800-325-7425 and contact the following departments:
• Inside Sales - for price, availability and general technical questions.
[email protected] 800-325-7425 dial 1, 2
• Customer Service - for order status
[email protected] 800-325-7425 dial 1, 2
• Industrial Sensors Application Engineering - technical issues
[email protected] 800-325-7425 dial 2,1
• Product Management/Product Marketing – for all other issues
800-325-7425 dial 0
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MANY THANKS FOR YOUR
ATTENTION.
ADDENDUM
H18 SURESENSE PHOTOELECTRIC SENSOR
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
PRODUCT FEATURES
SPECIFICATIONS
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SURESENSE PRODUCT OVERVIEW
A Complete Sensor Offering
Detect Any Object with One Sensor
Photoelectric Proximity Sensors
• Laser, LED and Infrared
• Energetic, Background Suppression and Foreground
Suppression
Small Objects
Photoelectric Retro-reflective Sensors
• Laser, LED and Infrared
• Polarized and non-polarizing filters
Uneven, Shiny Objects
Through-beam Photoelectric Sensors
• Laser, LED and Infrared
Transparent Objects
Advanced Sensor Technologies
VISTAL
Housing
IP 69K
PinPoint LED
Laser
AutoAdapt
Technology
: Name (Date)
SIRIC ASIC
Technology
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SURESENSE FAMILY
PRODUCT FEATURES
One sensor family for all applications – proximity, reflex, through-beam, clear material
• Signal strength light bar ensures optimal alignment
Top and Rear Power and
Switching Indicators
• M12, M8, pigtail, flying lead and micro ½-20 (AC/DC)
• Laser, red LED and infrared light spots available
Infrared
Red Light
Red Light w/polarizing reflector
Laser Class 1
HSE
Thru-Beam
HL18
Reflex
X
X
X
X
X
X
HTE18
Energetic
X
X
HTB18
BGS
HTF18
FGS
X
X
X
X
• IP 69K rated VISTAL housing (fiberglass reinforced plastic)
• ECOLAB certified
Potentiometer
- Sensitivity Adjustment
- Time delay On/Off
- Teach (clear object only)
Hybrid Mounting Design
(Front and Side Mount)
Signal Strength
Intensity Bar
Premium features typically only found in high-end sensors
H18 SURESENSE FAMILY
TECHNICAL FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS
Sensing ranges (Laser light)
• HL18L
• HSE18L
• HTB18L
Laser Type I 12 m (max. range)
Laser Type I 60 m (max. range)
Laser Type I 400 mm / white (90%); 150 mm / black (6%)
Sensing ranges (PinPoint 2.0 red light)
• HL18
6,500 mm (max range); 5,000 mm (operating range) on PL80A
• HL18G/T
3,000 mm (max range); 2,500 mm (operating range) on PL80A
• HSE18
25 m (max range); 20 m (operating range)
• HTB18
300 mm (90% white); 150 mm (6% black)
• HTF18
300 mm (90% white); 150 mm (6% black)
• HTE18
600 mm (90% white); 200 mm (6% black)
Sensing ranges (infrared light)
• HSE18
• HTE18
20 m (max range); 15 m (operating range)
1,000 mm (90% white); 250 mm (6% black)
Power supply
• 10 … 30 VDC Red LED, InfraRed and Laser
• 21.6 … 240 VAC/VDC Red LED and InfraRed
Output specification
• PNP
• NPN
• Complimentary NPN and PNP
• Health output
• Alarm output
Adjustments (Opt. selection with two of the following)
• Sensitivity adjustment
• LO/DO switch
• On Delay
• Off Delay
• Teach (with AutoAdapt sensors only)
Electrical connection
• Flying lead cable – 4-wire
• M8, 3-pin and 4-pin
• M12, 4-pin
• Micro ½-20, 4-pin (Available with AC/DC only)
Temperature range / Robustness
• VISTAL™ housing material
• Enclosure rating: IP 67 / IP 69K
• -40 °C … +70 °C
Certifications
• CE
• cULus
• ECOLAB
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