No need for panic with the ERIKS Hose Asset Management Van

When they're poorly maintained or managed, industrial and hydraulic hoses can lead to problems ranging from energy inefficiencies, unplanned downtime and lost production, to catastrophic failure, environmental contamination and even critical health and safety risks.

But arriving at your site with a van loaded with equipment, hose and know-how, ERIKS can help you take care of a vital part of your production processes. A part that's often the weakest link, and often overlooked until it's too late.

Know your hoses

Maintaining your hoses in good condition starts with knowing what hoses you have, and where. Only when you fully understand your hose assets can you establish a planned maintenance and management scheme to keep them in optimum condition.

And when a hose or hoses needs replacing - either as part of a planned maintenance regime or in an emergency - then knowing your hoses will help the engineer to know which replacement to bring, so production can be back up and running much faster.

However, when ERIKS' application engineers attend a customer's site, all too often there's no-one with a proper overview of hose assets. So part of the ERIKS Hose Asset Management chargeable service is a comprehensive review of your industrial or hydraulic hose.

And if you take advantage of ERIKS' cloud-based Hose Maintenance System, you'll be alerted in good time when the hoses are next due for testing, and the ERIKS van will arrive with a test rig, ready to pressure-test your hoses on site.

At the end of testing, and after any necessary replacements have been made, ERIKS will also provide the appropriate certification.

Maintain, manage, manufacture

For your hydraulics systems it's different hose, same problems. Most customers are unaware of the age and condition of their hydraulic hoses, and unsure which hoses do what.

As a result, instead of hose maintenance, they have hose emergencies, where an oil leak can mean unplanned downtime and an expensive emergency call out at best, or an environmental or health and safety incident at worst.

ERIKS' answer is to undertake planned maintenance before hose problems reach a head, by putting a hose control solution in place. The planned maintenance can be carried out during a scheduled shutdown, for example, when all hydraulic hoses can be assessed, reported on and replaced if required.

The next step is a comprehensive hose review, providing information as the basis for putting an hydraulic hose asset management system in place.

The review will assess age, condition and function of all your hydraulic hoses, and tag them with colour-coded tags: green, for assess as safe until next survey; red, for replace as soon as practicable.

With all your hoses catalogued and placed on a personalised Hose Asset Management database, all future maintenance can be carried out to a plan, with the support of the ERIKS hose van. And no need for sirens.