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removals and optimise engine time on wing. operations and maintenance costs.
In-fact Pratt & Whitney’s revolutionary Safran Aero Engines has also made
Geared Turbofan (GTF) engines have been extensive use of predictive analysis during
collecting data from day one of entry into the design and development of the LEAP
service. “Our eFAST system captures more aero-engine. “In the LEAP engine design a
than 20,000 parameters of full-flight data specific focus has been made on the ability
(engine and aircraft data) per flight. eFAST to deploy predictive maintenance actions
is an on-board, near real-time integrated through extensive analysis of operating toP: Predictive analysis and
data acquisition and transmission unit that is data,” François Bastin, CFM Programs additive layer manufacturing will
transform the MRO industry in the
available on GTF-powered C Series aircraft,” Director at Safran Aircraft Engines and coming years
Liping Xie, Vice President of Sales, East Executive Vice President of CFM tells Asian
Asia Pacific Region, Pratt & Whitney tells Airlines & Aerospace. New generation aero- MiDDLe: 24/7 support MRO
Asian Airlines and Aerospace. eFAST which engines such as the LEAP are far more support centres such as the one
pictured, will have access to
can automatically download, process and sophisticated than the older generation more data than ever before with
store data, has the potential to be applied to engines, which were developed in the predictive analysis. It remains to be
current operational engines as well. All data infancy of the digital era. For eg. The highly seen how the increasing situation
is securely uploaded to a customer portal, sophisticated engine processing control of only a single OEM for major
jetliner technologies, will affect the
allowing operators to be far better informed system on the LEAP allows it to optimise information flow between the OEM
in their efforts to optimise airline flight engine performance. “The ability to transmit and MRO provider
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