How Professional Maintenance and Repairs Benefit Your Hydraulic Equipment

Hydraulic equipment experts can support your valuable hydraulic pumps, hydraulic cylinders and other hydraulic accessories in many ways. Five of the most important advantages include:

1. Improving the overall reliability of your hydraulic pumps and hydraulic cylinders – Hydraulic pumps and hydraulic cylinders are as valuable as they are reliable, and hydraulic systems have a tendency to develop issues if they aren’t properly maintained. By delaying professional maintenance, your hydraulic pumps and cylinders are at risk of wear-related performance decline.

   On-time preventative maintenance can identify potential failures before they cause extended downtime, saving your operations money and potentially preventing a serious safety mishap. Your operators need to trust their hydraulic equipment to perform at their best, and professional maintenance ensures that valuable trust.

2. Minimizing downtime when your hydraulic equipment does experience a failure – Preventative maintenance will stop many failures before they take out your hydraulic pumps and hydraulic cylinders, but every system will eventually need repairs. When they do, working with a professional hydraulic technician will ensure your hydraulic equipment is quickly returned to service. Downtime is money for hydraulic equipment operators, and a well-resourced hydraulic shop can expedite repairs to keep that downtime to a minimum.

   Further, botched hydraulic equipment repairs are always a possibility if they aren’t performed by an expert technician, and botched hydraulic system repairs will greatly increase the downtime and cost of restoring the hydraulic pump’s or cylinder’s performance.

3. Ensuring worn components are identified and replaced before a failure occurs – Proactive component replacement is recommended before wear causes a complete failure. When hydraulic parts fail, they can cause additional issues that lead to a more catastrophic failure. For example, if the wiper seal in a hydraulic cylinder fails, it will quickly introduce contamination into the system.

   During a full hydraulic system inspection, your technician will check for any signs of component wear. This includes seals, bearings, gears, valves, connectors and hoses – along with the hydraulic pump’s body and hydraulic cylinder rod.

   By identifying and replacing worn components before they fail, you’ll avoid many routine causes of hydraulic system downtime.

4. Optimizing your hydraulic equipment’s performance and efficiency – Hydraulic pumps and hydraulic cylinders will experience a drop in efficiency if the equipment isn’t properly maintained. Hydraulic pumps will take longer to come up to pressure and may have difficulty maintaining those pressures. Hydraulic cylinders will handle roughly as they stroke, may stroke inconsistently, or stroke off-center, resulting in additional wear and damage.

   This manifests as a drop in efficiency and performance. With regular, professional hydraulic equipment maintenance, an expert technician can identify those minor issues that aren’t enough to cause a failure, but enough to reduce efficiency. This will ensure your hydraulic equipment maintains a higher baseline of productivity – along with your operations in the field.

5. Providing peace of mind that your hydraulic systems are properly supported – If you or your operator teams know that your hydraulic equipment assets need maintenance, it can negatively affect your operators’ approach to handling the equipment. Hydraulic pumps and cylinders may be sidelined or may be operated at reduced speeds to prevent a potential failure. There’s also the constant distraction that comes with equipment you may not be able to trust.

   Consistent hydraulic equipment maintenance means better performance and better reliability, but that’s not all. It also provides the peace of mind that comes with hydraulic equipment you can trust. In industries where a single failure can be catastrophic for worker safety, you can’t put a price on that peace of mind.