Expensive to slob with the hose
All the black on the "projectile" is dirt and particles from
the brand new hydraulic hose, which has been shot
through.- I simply don't understand it. It takes in reality so little
for the quality to be right, and it has great consequences to slob
with it. Even so, we experience all the time that companies don't
think in quality and cleaning, but purely on the price, when they
buy hydraulic hoses. Ultimately, it becomes more expensive for the
end customer, who often must change the hoses on his machine.
Arne Iversen is a little frustrated. As CEO in the hydraulic-
and transmission company Dani-tech, he witnesses, that
the save rush in the Danish companies frequently leads, that
there is being compromised so much with the quality of hydraulic
hoses, that you ultimately are left with an more expensive bill -
and maybe even with damaged materiel.
Therefore Dani-tech has now launched a campaign that shall
inform all the company's customers about, what quality - and
particularly cleaning - means for their materiel in the long
run.
Your customer and your reputation pay
- So, as you can see, we can sell you everything, says Arne Iversen
and points beyond resolved Dani-tech
warehouse filled from floor to ceiling with roll after roll of
hydraulic hoses in all sizes, varieties and qualities.
- The question is what you need it to - and where. If you
choose, for example, the cheap version here,
so it is fine if your machine is running inside and not exposed to
large amounts of dust or sunlight.
But you mount it on an outdoor machine, you can count on you to
change it again very soon - and that it
would have been a lot cheaper for you to choose a snake that was
designed for outdoor use from the start.
There are many companies who do at the moment - choose the cheap
solution that really is the expensive solution.
- It's understandable that you want to save, but it's just not
the right place to do it. The hoses are extremely important for
machine operation, and are influenced by many things - so beware of
short-term solutions. It may well be that it saves money now and
here, but the user of the machine will pay for it, and ultimately
it gives a bad reputation to deliver poor quality.
Goodbye maschine
But the worst is not actually choosing hoses of poor quality - the
worst is to slut with the cleaning of the assembled hydraulic
hoses. It can cost the whole machinery of life.
- When you cut and mount hydraulic hoses, automatically rubber
and metal particles are collected in them.
Particles in the hydraulic oil destroy the machine - and more
microscopically it is, the worse it is. It can wear out pumps,
motors, valves and cylinders in record time, and we must indeed
wonder about the few dollars you saved on cleaning outweigh that
going out and investing in brand new equipment for several years
before the time, points out Arne Iversen.
Has it already destroyed your hydraulic system, Dani-tech is
happy to deliver a new, but it is according to Arne Iversen not the
point. The point is the need to think of cleaning, because it gives
long life of components and systems.
- We supply everything, so we earn good money at it, regardless
of what people choose. We would just like to see that people where
perhaps more critical to quality, maybe chose a hose which cost
25-40% more, but got a life that is 3-5 times longer. There must in
reality so little to so that it becomes a much better business for
companies. And reputations around high quality are all shown need
in these times, where Asian products are flooding the market, says
Arne Iversen.
Read more about how to select the right hydraulic hoses
under "Need
to know about hydraulic hoses"
