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Taking it and open; if Prognos is not assessed as a good
service in five to 10 years, so be it. We are happy
to take on the challenge.”

With new generation aircraft generating mas-
sive amounts of data, there is an ongoing
up a Notch debate on who owns the data. Parisot makes
it clear which side of the fence he and his com-
pany are on.

“We want the data to remain under the control
of its owner, the airline. When you consider
buying an aircraft, the data generated from it
AFI KLM E&M IS WORKING WITH PARTNERS TO and what you can do with the data is part of
DEVELOP PROGNOS INTO A DIGITAL PLATFORM the value assessment that you do when you
compare it to another aircraft. The airline is the
THAT IS BOTH OPEN AND NEUTRAL owner of the data and should have full access
to it and total control over it. If I bring my data
Arun Sivasankaran to a platform, I choose who I share it with and

Encouraged by the performance of its Prognos predictive what I do with it.”
maintenance service, Air France Industries KLM Engineering &
Maintenance is currently in discussions with prospective partners A Peep into the Future
to develop it into an open and neutral platform. Officially launched two years ago, the Prognos
suite has two components, Prognos for air-
“Prognos today is a service; we are actively working on making it craft and Prognos for engines. Both solutions
a platform,” Rodolphe Parisot, AFI KLM E&M Chief Digital Officer, are available for Airbus and Boeing fleets and
tells Asian Airlines & Aerospace. “We want to develop the best already in use to monitor fleets of AIR FRANCE
services on the platform. I cannot divulge too many details, but I and KLM as well as those of third-party airlines.
can tell you that we are moving forward quickly.”
The company’s assessment of existing platforms is that “they are Prognos for aircraft uses data transmitted by
not open enough or neutral enough,” says Parisot. “They are also aircraft and analyzes it using algorithms that
not respectful enough of data ownership. We do not want to rein- trigger alerts for the components according
troduce monopolistic behavior in the platform business; we are to a predefined set of parameters. The results
looking to change the game. We want to keep the competition fair are then uploaded in real time to an airline’s

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