There are two types of strategies when it comes to safety. The first can be implemented by a verbal or written command, such as a change to a reporting procedure or a new training program. The second requires a change in human behavior—a far more difficult undertaking. Human factors initiatives tend to fall squarely into this second bucket.

1. Building the Base Supplier: Teradata Applications: Teradata offers both blanket data warehousing and pre-built logical data models designed for the airline industry. Think of it as the difference between buying a physical warehouse and buying the warehouse with pre-cut, industry-specific shelves in it, says Peeter Kivestu, Teradata's director of travel industry and marketing solutions.

The projected three-year market for heavy maintenance visits (HMV) and C checks on Airbus A330-series widebodies is among the smaller of those tracked for major airframes, but it remains attractive at just more than $1 billion, split nearly evenly between -200 and -300 models and concentrated among a handful of carriers.

You can't manage what you can't measure. That dictum is repeated so often, that you may tune it out. But performance metrics and key performance indicators (KPI) are a critical component to a lean MRO or Six Sigma initiative.

1. The Aircraft Converter Supplier: Aeronautical Engineers Inc. (AEI) Location: Miami

In the coming years, aircraft maintenance data will likely shift to cloud storage, which is simply a much more economical way of storing, sharing, managing and using data.

Washington Impact of Fuel-Tank Rule Deadline Extensions Unclear

Lucerne, Switzerland From Test Flights To Fees Concerns In an industry as dynamic and as driven by technological innovation as aviation, it is only natural to witness an evolution of the regulatory framework. Europe, of course, is not immune and, even if most of the recent regulatory efforts have been in the field of flight operations, the maintenance and engineering component of the aviation business also has had to adapt to a set of regulatory changes.