Locally Available Hose Expertise
Choose Your Hose Wisely
Swagelok® hoses are available in a range of materials; including metal, PFA and PTFE; with options for the most challenging environments. After understanding your unique needs, hoses arrive fabricated and ready to install. Learn more about available hoses here.
A Hose Advisory service from Swagelok uses local field engineers to deliver global experience, improving the life and performance of hoses in your facilities.
Our local field engineers are trained hose advisors. They have completed detailed curriculum and practical training from Swagelok in order to with partner with you and deliver this expertise. They can look at the types of hoses available to you, as well as areas of concern or areas of improvement that you may have not identified.
- Do you have a system that runs high pressures, extreme temperatures or unique media and need to understand your options?
- Do you want a better layout, use of space or handling improvements?
- Are you replacing the same damaged or worn hoses too often?
- Can these hose-related issues cause potential injuries to your employees and/or damage the environment?
- Does your team have other priorities and day-to-day duties that prevent them from giving your hoses the attention they need and deserve?
The purpose for every area of discussion is to resolve issues before they happen and save your company time and money. That’s where we come in. Swagelok field engineers can provide the experience to troubleshoot the hose-related problems that may exist within your facility.
In addition to helping you understand your options, a hose advisor can deliver a preventative maintenance plan and will add hose-related problems that might be causing unplanned outages, leaks or waste.
What can you expect in a Swagelok Hose Advisory Session?
During hose advisory, we will perform an onsite inspection with you to best understand your needs and goals for improving your hose systems. After establishing goals that make the most sense to you and your team, your Hose Advisor will complete a visual inspection of the key areas that have been identified. Upon completion, you will be provided with detailed report that includes the following:
- A summary of overall findings and improvement suggestions for hose installation, inspection, and selection at your facility
- A personalized guide for hose inspection and preventative maintenance, tailored to address the findings at your specific facility
- Suggestions on potential replacement options for hose assemblies that may be a better fit for a particular application
- Tips and suggestions for preventative maintenance schedules for the specific applications at your facility
- A prioritized list of improvement recommendations for individually identified hose assemblies at your facility
Swagelok Hose Advisory Services was designed to make your job easier and to allow you to operate more safely and more efficiently, making your company more profitable. Our job is serve you not just as your local hose expert, but also as your high performance resource for fluid system expertise.
Hoses are too often considered an oversight and not as important as other areas of plant operations. Overlooking the very items that feed your process or keep the pressure on, can end up being an expensive issue that could have been easily avoided.