General Electric has set out to become the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming itself by using Big Data to shape everything from the way it makes things to supporting customers in the field.
GE Aviation’s win of a US$1 billion contract to develop a sixth-generation variable-cycle fighter engine is seen as a crucial next step in the future of its $3.7 billion military engines business.
It’s been a unique and remarkable decade for aerospace, says GE Aviation president and CEO David Joyce. Unprecedented investment and transformational advances in technology, materials and manufacturing have resulted in new aircraft, new engines, record backlogs and a new supply chain.
GE Aviation has unveiled one of the first digital customer solutions built on its Predix software platform, an application developed through a collaboration with Flydubai.
GE and the U.S. Air Force are conducting advanced compressor and fan rig testing that could lead to a follow-on development and test regime of full three-stream, adaptive combat engines.
Benefit: The Service Bulletin (SBs 72-0159 and 72-0140 - Cooling Hole Modification) is a product improvement which introduces the GEnx-1B/-2B/P2 configuration that improves the fuel efficiency of both GEnx engine models. Description: These Service Bulletins rework high-pressure turbine (HPT) Stage 1 shroud hangers to part number 2100M84G04. The reworked hanger has revised airflow requirements.
What do engine operators want from an overhaul provider? A team from Marketing, Sales, Mature Fleet and Customer Technical Programs joined forces to hear straight from African operators at a GE Aviation-hosted Engine Services Customer Symposium held in Casablanca, Morocco.
Benefits: Impact damage on GE90 high-pressure turbine (HPT) blades out of the current repairable region can now be repaired, resulting in an overall yield improvement.
GE Aviation now has a report process that can save the commercial aircraft engine lessee and/or lessor thousands of dollars and avoid hours of engine test time, at time of lease return.
GE Aviation is rebranding its aftermarket services portfolio into four pillars that are designed to clarify and simplify the offerings for its airline, lessor and MRO customers.
GE Aviation now has a fully operational on-wing support base of operations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to better serve operators in the Latin American region. The operation is certified with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the ANAC (the Brazilian Airworthiness Organization) – and looking to add certifications from additional countries such as Chile, Argentina and Panama.
Forecasters are predicting a substantial increase in airline passenger traffic in the coming years. This will, in turn, increase the pressure on the regional airlines to maintain flight schedules.
An engine configuration assessment (meeting Engine Manual specifications), exhaustive part records review, and an accident and incident statement search are three of the major areas to address to ensure a quality used life-limited part (LLP)
