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RS, a global product and service solutions provider for industrial customers, offers Banner Engineering’s B25 wide beam sensor. This industrial photoelectric sensor is designed to provide 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 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 B25 wide beam sensor can help.
Banner’s B25 wide beam sensor 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 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 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 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.
