Aviatar is a system that tracks the maintenance conditions of dozens of parts on each aircraft. Especially in the latest generation of aircraft, more and more parts are equipped with sensors that send ‘live’ information about their condition. This makes it possible to predict when a part will need to be replaced. By knowing this in time, maintenance can be planned and aircraft with damaged parts can be prevented from being grounded and causing delays or even cancellations.
At the end of last year, Lufthansa Technik had data on nearly 2,700 aircraft in the Aviatar cloud, a third more than the previous year. 130 TUI devices will now be added, after the company first conducted a trial run for several months to see if the system would perform well in its own maintenance activities. TUI has put in place Maintenance Operations Control at London Luton Airport.
There are more digital aircraft maintenance platforms. Boeing itself offers the Insight Accelerator, of which All Nippon Airways became its first customer last September. Airbus has its own Skywise platform, which is now linked to 10,500 aircraft. KLM demonstrated last year that it saw a lot in the ReMAP system, which was jointly developed with the team from TU Delft and tested in practice until last spring.
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