Hose advisory & optimization
Extending hose life and improving hose performance. Reducing maintenance, repairs, and replacement.
Reducing costly hose repairs
Swagelok Hose Advisors are trained to identify ways to enhance your hose selection, installation, inspection, and maintenance procedures to improve hose life and performance. We go beyond surface examinations to discover the underlying cause of failures or issues like kinking, selection, compatibility, length, and connections.
Swagelok recommendations help customers prioritize
We thoroughly inspect, then report in detail exactly how to make hoses perform better and last longer, so you get the best return. You get expert visual inspection followed by a detailed report with recommendations and replacement options. We deliver a preventative maintenance schedule and documented hose inspection steps for your specific facility. And we provide a hose register update (or new database) with our survey findings, in the format that works for you.
Detailed reporting and recommendations
A typical Swagelok report may run several dozen pages. It is designed as a detailed road map to increased reliability, decreased energy consumption, and reduced emissions due to component failures, installation errors, and incorrect product selection.
We offer local, accessible hose experts
We don't just hand off a report and wish you luck. Our Technical Support Team can provide expert hose selection and end connection selection support, as well as advice during installation and commissioning. We also offer best practices information regarding hose selection, installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
Benefits
Benefits of engaging Swagelok Netherlands for hose advisory include:
Longer hose life
Save money through proper hose selection and installation. An optimally routed hose and end connection combination will have a longer life.
Lower maintenance costs
Prevent costs associated with replacing the same problem hoses, scrambling to deal with unplanned downtime, and replacing wasted product.
Improved productivity
With less time sunk in troubleshooting, team members can focus on activities related to your core mission, like optimizing processes and output.
Progress toward safety goals
Keep your plant and processes safe, predictable and dependable. With leak-tight products and best practices, you reduce the risk of injuries and damage.
More accurate forecasts
Get a preventative maintenance schedule tailored to your facility. You'll know when systems will need attention and exactly what steps are necessary.
Actionable report
After our thorough survey, you receive detailed findings, prioritized improvement recommendations, and a hose register update or database.
What to expect
Often things progress as follows:
1. Consulting
Starting with a meeting or phone conversation, we gather information to understand the problem or goal. We want to learn about our customer's application, operations, and current challenge. Then we recommend next steps and provide a quote, if applicable.
2. Inspection
Swagelok-certified field engineers conduct an inspection of your facility to pinpoint issues. Our thermal imaging and ultrasonic equipment finds leaks as small as 1 x 10-3 cm3/s. We also note potential safety hazards, misapplication of components, and excessive wear or damage.
3. Analysis
Working with data and observations made onsite, we quantify each issue's impact on your operation. Advice reflects a range of considerations, such as issue location, severity, estimated cost; and effect on safety, emissions, system reliability/production capacity, and product quality.
4. Delivery
We deliver and discuss recommendations. Reports summarize what was evaluated and our top recommendations then show detail on each issue in an appendix. Customers have as much as time as they need to discuss the findings with our field engineer(s).