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is so excited by its potential that he says it is
going to be the biggest driver of production
efficiency improvements in the company over
the next decade.

Making their Presence Felt
ndependent MRO providers too have
been busy introducing digital innovations
to stave off competition from OEMs and
Iincrease their market share. Lufthansa
Technik’s “Aviatar,” introduced in April 2017,
is a digital platform that offers a wide vari-
ety of digital products and services for MRO
by combining multiple apps, all in one place.
The platform, which allows external apps to
be connected to it, serves as a connecting
hub for apps that offer digital products and
services for the aviation industry. Each one
of apps on the platform can also be used Layover, and ToolNOW, the first online brokerage platform for
as a standalone product, with clients having tool loans in the industry.
the freedom to pick and choose according
to their needs. Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance, which
has “The MRO Lab,” a center focused on aircraft maintenance
The only independent and open digital plat- innovations developed by the company as well as its affiliates,
form that currently exists in the industry, also has teamed up with Ramco Systems to create “The MRO
Aviatar was launched with seven apps - Lab Singapore.” The company has also used Big Data to come
“Fleet Management,” “Performance Metrics,” up with “Prognos,” a predictive analysis program that is used
“Condition Analytics”, “Fault Analytics, to replace a fuel system component before it fails. Prognos
“Predictor Plugins” and the FLYdocs-created provides two maintenance solutions that predict possible fail-
app Record Status.” More apps have been ures and optimize scheduled maintenance work - Prognos for
added since to the platform that now has Engine and Prognos for Aircraft.
more 500 aircraft using it. Among the newly
added apps are MROradar, a digital RFP According to Colin Gregory, AAR Vice President of Sales –
(Request for Proposal) platform for aircraft Asia Pacific Region, AAR is investing significantly in data-driven
base maintenance, AirGlance, which digi- applications and products and is getting ready to release its
talizes reporting along a Base Maintenance repair cycle management application -Airvolution. The com-

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