Monitoring Tools vs Visual Inspection – The advantage of proactive hydraulic hose maintenance
It’s often thought that hydraulic hose failure can’t be predicted, and as a fairly inexpensive component, many Production Managers accept failure as unavoidable. Equally, it’s common for hydraulics users to pre-emptively replace hoses which are still in safe working order, wasting unnecessary time and money. While the low cost of a hose itself belies the considerable expenses associated with oil clean-up and replacement, adopting a ‘run-to-fail’ policy also fails to take into account the significant health and safety hazards associated with burst hoses. For these reasons, it is important to take a proactive approach to hydraulic hose maintenance. In fact, there is always an indicator that a hose will fail, enabling maintenance engineers to act in time…
By Terry Davis, National Technical Manager, Brammer
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