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Gathering

Momentum

8TREE INTRODUCES NEW CAPABILITIES EVEN
AS DENTCHECK, ITS DENT MAPPING TOOL, IS Some of the leading commercial operators,
APPROVED FOR USE BY MORE CUSTOMERS cargo and defense MROs that currently use the
tool are easyJet, Delta TechOps, Aeromexico,
Arun Sivasankaran Portugália Airlines, and DHL-Express. Among
those that are considering the adoption of the
It has been a good year for 8tree, the company that makes den- tool in their maintenance operations is Allegiant
tCHECK, a handheld-portable, completely wireless 3D scanner Air, which conducted a study that spanned four
tool that drastically reduces damage-mapping and reporting times. aircraft and almost a hundred damage loca-
In October, Lufthansa Technik announced that it was using tions. The study revealed time savings of 87
DentCHECK across all of its global base maintenance facilities. percent. Enthused by the results, Allegiant is
The leading MRO provider is the latest in the list of MROs and oper- exploring the implementation of dentCHECK
ators that have adopted the tool that has the capability to reduce across its maintenance operations.
dent-mapping and reporting times by as much as 90 percent com- “Pre-owned aircraft comprise a majority of
pared to traditional manual methods that use depth-gauges and Allegiant’s fleet, and thus, mapping pre-existing
straight-edges. damage is a critical part of our aircraft induction
process,” said Jack Fraser, Managing Director,
Technical Support & Compliance, Allegiant Air,
“AFTER TESTING SEVERAL DENT-MAPPING at the 62nd annual A4A NDT Forum in Long
TECHNOLOGIES IN OUR INNOVATION BAY Beach, California, in September. “dentCHECK
AT LUFTHANSA TECHNIK MALTA, WE WERE significantly reduced the time it took us to mea-
CONVINCED BY 8TREE’S DENTCHECK BECAUSE OF sure and report damage, while also delivering
improved accuracy and consistency of mea-
ITS USER-FRIENDLINESS AND PERFORMANCE,” says surement. We saw a drop from 92 minutes per
Cathal O’Loughlin, Head of Tooling & Equipment at Lufthansa damage location using traditional measurement
Technik Base Maintenance Services. methods, to only 12 minutes with dentCHECK.”
“BY ACCELERATING THE DAMAGE-MAPPING
PROCESS, DENTCHECK INCREASES EFFICIENCY New Customers
AND FREES CAPACITY OF OUR SKILLED STRUCTURE “We decided on dentCHECK because of
MECHANICS.” the great efficiency gains it can deliver to a
busy MRO operation such as ours,” says Ralf
Noether, director maintenance of European Air
Transport Leipzig, a division of DHL Express.
“The one-button operation and instant ‘go/
no-go’ answers empower our technicians
to confidently make decisions on-the-spot,
thereby improving aircraft turn-around-time.”
Another happy customer is SR Technics,
which will use the tool to enhance its main-
tenance operations in Switzerland and Malta.
“The main reason we have selected dent-
CHECK is because we were confident that this
innovative solution has proven to be a great
benefit to our maintenance operation allowing
us to send accurate dent assessment reports

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