Optimizing Engines Through the Lifecycle

Engine manufacturer plans to open a new GE9X components manufacturing facility in Singapore and will draw on ideas and concepts from its existing parts repair center in the city-state.

In November 2017, Middle River Aircraft Systems celebrated 20 years with GE, and the facility’s future has never looked brighter.

In December, GE Aviation and Praxair, Inc. opened a new facility for its PG Technologies business, which specializes in advanced coatings for jet engines.

Just as taxi service often improves when Uber and Lyft move into town, metal casting is being enhanced as additive competes with casting.

Understanding how Industry 4.0—including simulation, sensors and virtual reality—will transform aviation manufacturing and product life cycles.

As new engine types enter into service, it’s the stalwarts of the global fleet that will continue to generate long-term MRO demand.

This new service enables CF6-80E/-80C Stage 2 Tech HPT blades that have been through a previous full repair to be repaired a second time.

This month, we’re featuring two recent videos (virtual facility tour and foundation stone laying ceremony) on XEOS, a joint venture of two industry innovators – Lufthansa Technik (51%) and GE Aviation (49%).

Watch John Mansfield, chief digital officer at GE Aviation, and Murray Adams, group manager of fuel efficiency at Qantas, discuss how they’re partnering together to drive digital industrial transformation across their organizations.

Boeing's first long-term deal involving engine components supports drive for organic aftermarket growth.

MRO will offer line services for Rolls-Royce engine superjumbo option.

CF6, PW2000 joins venerable V2500 in driving mature material demand.

To wash or not to wash? That is the question.

Icelandair recently signed a TrueChoice™ Transitions agreement for a custom build CF6-80C2 spare engine.

Fundamental to all TrueChoice Transitions offerings is GE Aviation's commercial engine overhaul support.

The older an aircraft gets, the more of its value is transferred to its engines.

Leasing a PMAT 2000 kit saved one airline $28,000, while another got immediate delivery and saved $26,000 on an engine lift fixture.

Step back in time to 1992 (and before) to discover how GE Aviation's CF34 family of engines helped pave the way for today's vital regional commercial aviation industry.

The French engine-maker says turbofan improvements will continue while parallel studies of hybrid and all-electric propulsion studies ramp up.

Now there’s more than one way to easily access the GE Aviation and CFM International Maintenance Minute series that provides general engine maintenance tips and best practice video tutorials. The new app can be found on Apple’s App Store and runs on iPhones and iPads.

Maintenance providers have continued to make moves in the Asia-Pacific market this year by forming new partnerships and signing up regional airline

With a reach of more than three meters and a cumulative bend of up to 225 degrees, snake-arm robots are ideal for working in tight spots.

The numbers are in: GE Aviation, the first corporate user of the HondaJet, says the diminutive business aircraft is boosting productivity and saving it money compared with flying on the airlines.

GE can provide a custom build used GE or CFM56 engine as an alternative to heavy overhaul and finance their acquisition.

Two-minute video demonstrates on GE's Flight Phase Analyzer can identify a fan imbalance and plan preventive maintenance that saves downtime and money.