Nordam is upgrading and moving its aircraft exhaust repair operations based at its former downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, headquarters to its repair division elsewhere in the city.
New technology like “big data” and analytics will dramatically change the world of aerospace MRO, two well-known competing consultants advised April 5, but clues are emerging for how companies can harness the revolution.
New technology like “big data” and analytics will dramatically change the world of aerospace maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), according to two well-known competing consultants speaking at Aviation Week's MRO Americas 2016 symposium.
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.
This year’s Aviation Week MRO Of The Year Award Winners demonstrate a deep commitment to elevate technology and processes in new ways that improve customer’s operational effectiveness.
Pat Durkin, VP of Sales and Marketing of TE Wire & Cable, discusses a few ways to improve composite curing quality for the MRO aviation industry at the MRO Americas exhibition in Miami.
Malcom Hysler, creator of ENCANSOL, discusses the new emergency spill containment, control and remediation solidifier product at the Santex Corporation booth at MRO Americas
ATS’s Kansas City facility, which opened in mid-2014 and complements its original heavy-check operation in Everett, Washington, and its VIP completion-focused facility in Moses Lake, Washington, is “off and running,” ATS CEO Matt Yerbic told Aviation Daily at MRO Americas.
Often done to coincide with an aircraft down for a heavy check, an InTech team comes in and removes the interior, cleans and overhauls the components and then reinstalls the cabin as a turnkey service.
Presented by Snap-On, the annual Aerospace Maintenance Competition was held for the first time at MRO Americas Convention. Here are hyperlapse videos of the competitors in action at the convention.
“You’re seeing [new] heavy maintenance facilities in the Americas,” Michaels told MRO Americas delegates on April 15. “We’re going to see more widebody maintenance done in North America.”
This big project is one of the last pieces of merging the operations of Continental and United. Airlines frequently save the tech-ops piece as a last step because of the complexity and scope—as well as the process changes that are first required.
Originally signed in 2010, the accord has been extended for five additional years, and expanded to include Azul gaining access to a pool of ATR spare parts the manufacturer will now maintain in Brazil.
“I think you’re going to see a real uptick in interest in the aftermarket,” says Nick Fazioli, the senior vice president of investment banking in aerospace and defense at Jeffries LLC, which consults on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). “It’s an area in need of investment and consolidation.”
“We need to be getting away from the ‘no trouble found’ that drives everybody nuts,” says Ahmad Zamany, the vice president of technical operations at Copa Airlines, the Panama-based carrier.
The massive re-fleeting underway in North America will keep the aftermarket growth rate nearly flat for the next decade, and the resulting higher-technology fleet will prompt more data-driven services that will change the maintenance landscape.
Snap-on Industrial developed the Advanced Technology Lab to help demonstrate and show some of the key product and system innovations available to customer.
