RS and Banner Engineering enable reliable package detection

Banner's new B25 wide beam sensor provides superior performance across a wide beam to support surging growth in the material handling, logistics, and packaging industries and is available now at RS.

FORT WORTH, Texas, June 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- RS, a high-service global product and service solutions provider for industrial customers, offers Banner Engineering's new B25 wide beam sensor. This industrial photoelectric sensor is designed to provide superior performance across a wide beam and get more packages to the right place at the right time, which is essential to supporting surging growth in the material handling, logistics, and packaging industries.

The global material handling, logistics, and packaging industries are experiencing significant growth. Valued at $1.24 trillion in 2024, the global packaging industry is projected to grow to a value of $1.69 trillion by 2034. Similarly, the global material handling and logistics industry is currently projected to grow from a valuation of $3.93 trillion in 2024 to $5.95 trillion by 2030. Ensuring that packages are at the right place — from filling to delivery — is paramount for effectively supporting this growth, and Banner's new B25 wide beam sensor can help.

Banner's new B25 wide beam sensor reliably detects the leading edges of targets as thin as 3mm within its wide 25mm beam, regardless of shape, position, or material. It quickly and accurately detects targets made of dark, shiny, translucent, and otherwise challenging materials, as well as those with inconsistent edges like folds, holes, or open flaps, which can cause competing sensors to switch on and off repeatedly, or chatter, and generate a noisy, unstable signal. As such, the B25 is ideal for detecting packages like mailers or polybags, improving the precision control of package flows, and enhancing sortation efficiency and accuracy.

This new high-performance photoelectric sensor also features an intuitive, user-friendly design engineered to make setup, installation, commissioning, and maintenance quick and easy. Users can configure the sensor with a single pushbutton, a remote input wire, or an IO-Link interface. With another simple button press, they can teach the sensor to ignore the effects of belt flutter and seams. The B25 also makes it easy for users to adjust variable sensitivity settings to optimize the reliable detection of challenging targets and reference integrated LED lights to monitor the amount of light blocked by targets and view device status. Additionally, the integrated multi-channel cable routing on the bottom of the sensor housing cleanly routes cables away from the sensor, regardless of how it's mounted.

The new B25 wide beam sensor supports a detection range up to 2m (6.6'), utilizes a 10–30V DC supply voltage, offers push-pull with IO-Link and PNP outputs, and features a 100mm (6") PVC-jacketed cable terminated with a four-pin M12 quick-disconnect connector.

To learn more about the new Banner Engineering B25 wide beam sensor, visit the RS product page and the Banner Engineering landing page. For more information about the complete RS portfolio of Banner Engineering products, including other photoelectric sensors, please visit the links embedded here. For expert insights into timely and relevant sensor topics, check out Banner's contributions to the RS Expert Advice Series.

For assistance identifying, procuring, deploying, and maintaining Banner Engineering sensors optimized for your industrial automation applications — spanning manufacturing, packaging, and beyond — please contact your local RS representative at 1.866.433.5722 or reach out to the RS technical support team.

About Banner Engineering
Banner Engineering is a global leader in the field of industrial automation. Banner's sensors and vision, LED lights and indicators, remote I/O, connectivity technology, industrial wireless, monitoring solutions, and safety products are used by companies large and small, from industry leaders in the Fortune 500 to innovators just entering the market. Companies all around the world use Banner's award-winning products and solutions to increase efficiency, reduce costs, safeguard equipment, and protect personnel.

About RS
RS is a high-service global product and service solutions provider for industrial customers, enabling them to operate efficiently and sustainably.

We operate in 36 markets, stock over 830,000 industrial and specialist products, and list an additional five million relevant for our industrial customers, sourced from over 2,500 suppliers. This extensive range supports our customers across the industrial lifecycle of designing, building, and maintaining equipment and operations. We enhance their experience through a tailored service model, leveraging our efficient physical, digital, and process infrastructure sustainably. We combine a technically led and digitally enabled approach with an exceptional team of experts; ultimately, it's our people that make the difference.

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