Maintenance Insight will provide Flexjet with analytics that will help monitor component health to optimize performance and decrease inefficiencies.
Flexjet is a leading luxury private jet company offering private aviation services including fractional jet ownership, leasing, and jet card services, a division of Bombardier Aerospace and known for its high safety standards recently adopted GE’s Maintenance Insight to its software solutions. GE’s Maintenance Insight not only helps to process flight data but also provides a set of services and capabilities to provide early detection of aircraft and component degradation to avoid costly operational disruptions and support corrective action decision making. Flexjet is the first in its space to deploy this solution across its fleet to help predict and prevent disruptions and reduce maintenance costs, making FlexJet, this week’s Airline of the week.
Avoid maintenance disruptions with sustainability
Maintenance Insight will provide Flexjet with analytics that will help monitor component health to optimize performance and decrease inefficiencies that lead to excess fuel burn and carbon emissions. Flexjet can thus avoid maintenance disruptions to keep its existing fleet running efficiently and reduce their carbon footprint. Maintenance Insight is designed to extract the full-flight data from the plane’s sensors after a flight. Once the solution is onboarded, airlines, or as is the case with Flexjet a private jet provider, can proactively pinpoint their top reliability challenges, helping drive insight and decisions. The system generates new data with each flight, staying ahead of potential issues before they would typically be caught during routine maintenance. This data also enables airlines to reroute planes, if necessary, to ensure they can be serviced at maintenance hubs (avoiding out-station events).
Charles Starkowsky Flexjet Chief Safety Officer said, “Implementation of the GE wireless flight data transmission across the Flexjet fleet in 2019 was so successful we were enthusiastic about the Maintenance Insight. This powerful capability will lead to superior aircraft safety, reliability, and efficiency.”
Sal Valentino, Flexjet’s Vice President of Maintenance, Operations, and Strategy said, “The addition of Maintenance Insight to our robust flight data program allows us to enhance our proactive maintenance processes by analyzing real-time data regarding the status of aircraft systems on-board every Flexjet aircraft.”
Overall efficient maintenance ops
Maintenance Insight includes a set of applications designed to deliver clear visibility into fleet health for early detection of aircraft and component degradation. Powerful analytics and insights help decrease unplanned maintenance burden and downtime. Downstream these reductions benefit airlines by avoiding costly operational disruptions and supporting corrective action decision making, improving maintenance effectiveness, and reducing out-station events.
Andrew Coleman, General Manager of GE Digital’s Aviation Software business said, “Because Flexjet maintains its aircraft, Maintenance Insight gives them a powerful advantage of proactive insights allowing them to predict and prevent disruptions and reduce maintenance costs. Our software uses a wealth of data generated by each aircraft to build analytics that provide advance awareness of potential component failure and unplanned maintenance, helping to prevent unnecessary time on the ground while also raising the efficiency of the maintenance efforts.”
The 3-fold Maintenance plan
Taking Maintenance from unplanned to planned
On average airlines spend around USD20.2 billion on unplanned maintenance in a year. By using Maintenance Insight airlines can avoid this unplanned cost. Almost 27 percent of the times, maintenance is unplanned.
1- Accelerate time to value
Tackle your most pressing maintenance issues, faster
- Reduce time dealing with incomplete and inaccurate data
- Run, execute, and test analytics in less than a day
2– Confident maintenance planning
Make better decisions by staying up-to-date and informed
- Identify problematic aircraft
- Visualize real-time fleet health
- Pinpoint maintenance issues at the component level
3- Boost customer satisfaction
Increase fleet reliability to keep your operation running at its best
- Improve maintenance effectiveness and enhance fleet health
- Implement an operational process your customers can count on
Maintenance Insight helps your airlines get more out of what they already have so that they can keep your fleet operating at its best. Extract more value out of the existing data to predict and prevent disruptions and reduce maintenance costs.
