Companies that wish to remain competitive and compensate for the shortage of skilled workers will count on increasing the flexibitlity of their automated processes. Evaluating and transporting safe data plays a decisive role in this. With IO-Link Safety and the new safeIDS sensor, SICK offers an innovative solution for combining safe and non-safe data. This opens up a raft of new possibilities for robotics, the packaging industry and machine tool manufacturers for making their automated processes more agile by flexibly adapting the machine parameters.