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ponents throughout their product life cycle.
This makes our engine component repairs
even more efficient and thus also benefits our
customers,” says Michael Ernst, AutoInspect
Project Manager at Lufthansa Technik. The
newly developed inspection procedure is
being rolled out for other combustor com-
ponents in engines of the CFM56 and CF34
families. The company’s Engine Condition
Monitoring (ECM) offering also provides engi-
neers with an accurate picture of a CFM56
engine allowing analysis of key parameters
enabling problems to be anticipated early on
and work scopes to be planned precisely well
in advance. At the same time ECM trends
also enable recommendations to be made
for line maintenance, for example, for a water
wash. Lufthansa Technik is also a part of
the LEAP-1A engine MRO network and the
first LEAP-1A engine shop visit is expected
in Hamburg in early 2019. “We are proud to
join the CFM MRO network and extend our SR Technics
RO service provider, SR Technics had a busy 2017
and its biggest business, Engine Services, which
has a yearly capacity of approximately 200 shop
Mvisits at the engine facility in Zurich Switzerland was
running at full capacity, servicing CFM56 and Pratt & Whitney
PW4000 engines. As of July 2017, SR Technics Engine Services
had delivered over 4,300 CFM and Pratt & Whitney engines.
The company is now gearing for the growth in CFM56 engine
overhaul and MRO and is working to increase the capacity of
its Zurich facility and in April announced that it would add 100
new positions in Engine Services. SR Technics latest contract
for CFM56 engine MRO was to extend the engine mainte-
nance partnership with Ural Airlines in December 2017. The
new contract is valid for another six years and covers the airline’s
CFM56-5B fleet. Work is set to begin in the second quarter
of 2018. All work will be done at the SR Technics facilities in
Zurich. “SR Technics’ expertise, high-quality services and effi-
cient approach for our CFM56-5B fleet is much appreciated and
we are pleased to expand our Engine Service business further,”
said Andrey Melnikov, Head of Budget Planning and Material
existing, very successful partnership and col- Support at Ural Airlines at the time of announcing the contract.
laboration beyond the CFM56 family. The The Swiss MRO firm also has a three-year CFM56-5B thrust
LEAP engine represents the next genera- reversers contract with easyJet till June 2020.
tion of aircraft engines with state-of-the-art
technology. We are pleased to provide state- AerFin Ltd (UK) and SR Technics also offer a Total Engine
of-the-art MRO services to our customers Solutions programme called Beyond.Fleet.Services which was
worldwide and committed to continue deliv- launched in July last year, after the successful delivery of the
ering sustainable value and cost savings first CFM56-5C4 engine to Philippine Airlines. AerFin and SR
for airlines and lessors and their LEAP Technics jointly undertake the engine MRO requirements for the
engines,” says Bernhard Krueger-Sprengel, Philippine carrier’s fleet of A340-300s. SR Technics handles the
Vice President Engine Services at Lufthansa maintenance and repair services for the CFM56-5C engines as
Technik. well as component-related support. AerFin Ltd will be responsible

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