How to facilitate work in a warehouse with the use of magnets

Warehouses, and the magnets in them, are a fundamental pillar not only of industrial production centres such as factories, production plants and logistic centres; they also occupy a place of maximum importance along the entire transport chain from the time goods are produced until they are delivered directly to the final customer. The warehouses are present both in the final stores that distribute the retail products and in the large logistics centres where thousands of shipments from different companies and industrial sectors are organised, shipped and received.

The warehouse, which at first was little more than a space in which to leave the goods in those dead times between one journey and another or during the time that the sale is not yet closed, has evolved to become today one of the most technological centers that exist. Thus, in a current warehouse we can see that there are systems of the most advanced technology such as programs to classify and inventory in real time all the contents of the building, bar codes and readers that allow to classify and know the status of all goods at all times and allow their instant location through magnetic detectors in which magnets play a key role.

And it is that we could not understand the logistic system of today’s warehouses without the fundamental role that magnets play in it. Thus, goods arriving at a warehouse for the first time are labeled with barcodes and distributed mechanically to the different sections. However, it is in the warehouses of the final distribution stores, such as shopping centres, where magnets take on all their importance since they are not only used to label and inventory the different accessories and elements that are on sale; they also fulfil a security function.

The fundamental role of neodymium magnets

Neodymium magnets are often the preferred option to ensure security and prevent theft of different items from the store. When they are placed in the warehouse, they are attached to a magnet of one of the many forms and variants that exist that essentially fulfils the same function in all cases: to ensure that the detector at the exit of the store gives the alarm in the event that someone has taken the object without paying and avoids IMA magnets in security thus robbery. In addition, these types of magnets have evolved in recent times to make it increasingly difficult to separate them from the items to which they are linked if the right material is not available, with the increased security that this has meant.

It is estimated that the daily existence of neodymium magnets in store warehouses prevents and avoids a large number of thefts that would be responsible for large economic losses that, fortunately, do not occur today in that measure, so we can assert that the magnets play a very important role not only in the stores but throughout the economic chain.

Attending to the different types of magnets that we can see in the warehouses; we can observe that there are both steel impregnated cardboards and magnetic envelopes, magnetic paper or neodymium plasticized magnets. Although they all fulfil the same function, each of them can be specifically adapted to a very specific type of article, obtaining at all times the best quality-price ratio between the article to be protected in the warehouse and the magnet that protects it.