Taking The Guesswork Out Of Hydraulic Hoses is how Diesel Progress describes the impact of Eaton’s breakthrough LifeSense hose technology. Featured in the magazine’s September 2011 issue, the article presents the technical background of the LifeSense development project and covers many of the important customer benefits this new product delivers to mobile equipment users.Eaton product marketing manager Doug Jahnke presented the LifeSense story with clear examples of both the inner workings of the technology and the ways LifeSense helps customers improve the productivity and safety of their mobile equipment.
“One of our hose engineers was in the lab … was getting the same feedback whenever a hose was about to fail. So we started a project working with Purdue University to try and expand on what he learned to confirm those consistencies.”
“… users who use a time-based replacement process would get 50% or more — and sometimes far more — life out of their hoses with LifeSense,” Jahnke said. “… preventive maintenance becomes more of a routine process, and when they do have a hose that’s been identified as going to fail, they can do it during the preventive maintenance time or they can just stop the piece of equipment and replace it without having downtime out of the blue.”
The article goes on to examine a few real-world examples of how LifeSense hose can save customers from the cost of unscheduled downtime while also improving the availability of their production equipment.
Also covered in this issue are the new coupling lines Eaton recently added with the acquisition of Hansen Couplings and Coupleurs Gromelle, plus the new FF-Series of flat-face quick-disconnect hydraulic couplings.
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