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Hose Routing

and

Hose Kitting

What if hose installation was the easiest part of your build?

Most OEMs

still measure, cut, clean assemble, and fit hydraulic hoses one at a time - on the shop floor, under schedule pressure, using valuable skilled labour.

That approach quietly drives:

  • Extended build timelines

  • Rework and inconsistencies

  • Engineering bottlenecks

  • Hidden labour costs that never show up on the BOM - but do on every earnings report.

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OEM Cost Advantages:

In one recent example, 205 hose assemblies that took three shop days to fabricate internally were delivered by MultiFlow Solutions as a complete, production-ready kit...

with thousands of dollars in recovered labour time.

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If your engineering or production teams are still assembling hoses manually, we should talk.

Beyond the BOM 

The BOM captures what the hose and fittings cost to buy....

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) captures what it costs to engineering, build and support.

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Beyond the bill of materials, hydraulic hoses quietly drive a significant portion of the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a machine.

Engineering time, skilled shop labour, production delays, rework, and installation variability rarely appear on the BOM... but they show up in build schedules, margins and throughput.

THE SHIFT: Moving hose routing and hose kitting to MultiFlow

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By combining engineered hose routing with digitally driven hose kitting, MultiFlow Solutions shifts hose work upstream, removes manual fabrication from the shop floor, and converts a traditionally variable process into a predictable, repeatable operation.  

FOR MOST OEMS: 

The result is a lower total cost to build, faster installations and a more consistent end product, that optimizes hydraulic performance, durability and operational lifecycle.

Hydraulic hose should be engineered - not improvised.

Most hose failures don't originate in the hose - they originate in routing decisions and assembly variability.

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MultiFlow works upstream of production to:

  • digitally route hose and tube assemblies for optimal bend radius, motion and load

  • eliminate twist, abrasion, and stressed connections before the first hose is built

  • deliver complete, labelled hose sub-kits matched to machine assemblies 

and typically at much lower overall cost for the OEM.

THE SHIFT: Moving hose routing and hose kitting to MultiFlow

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When hose routing intent is defined digitally, produced digitally, and then carried through to installation, the impact on build time and consistency is immediately visible.  

 A short technical discussion often reveals where time, cost and variability can be engineered out.

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