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Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) : Optimized MRO... Becoming A Reality
Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) : Optimized MRO... Becoming A Reality
Operator
Maintain
MRO MRO & MRO
OEM
Assemble
OEM OEM OEM
Manufacture
OEM OEM & OEM & 3rd Party
3rd Party 3rd Party
Design
OEM OEM OEM &
3rd Party
20-30 10-20
Time years ago years ago Now Future???
Source: Capgemini
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Aerospace and Defense the way we see it
This all changed in September 2001 There has also been a notable change
as the buoyant marketplace suddenly in the operators’ view of the supply
declined. As a result, the aviation chain – where service contracts with
supply chain entered a new phase. the maintenance companies are
These new drivers have seen industry becoming more common. In turn, this
players start to restructure their puts more pressure on the
service provision offerings and maintenance companies to keep an
compete in different ways across the asset mobile, and to achieve this
supply chain. means that better communications
tools are required along the supply
Market trends have encouraged chain.
industry players to reposition
themselves across the service supply It is these two fundamental industry
chain. This has led to technology changes that are driving the need for
integration end-to-end and is one of advances across the end-to-end supply
the key drivers of the most recent chain of aviation asset management.
supply chain technology
developments in self-diagnostics. Of
course, this technological change isn’t
purely driven by industry trends but
is also supported by IT and digital
advances that allow such
developments.
Availability
maximizing fleet availability and optimization, we see technology being
izin
g assuring compliance with regulatory used to access aircraft performance in
xim requirements. near real-time to get the right people
Ma
with the right material to ramp at the
M
Operating
Costs the following challenges: In our example below, major aircraft
• Competitive Services - What is the OEMs are supplying operators with
optimum set of integrated on-board health monitoring solutions
maintenance offerings that provides as well as on-ground solutions to
asset owners and operators with receive and process this information.
genuine levels of “service”?
• Predictive Maintenance - How best Capgemini, through its Sogeti
to predict and accurately plan subsidiary, has sole responsibility for
maintenance events and ensure that the development of the Real Time
these events are not just scheduled Maintenance and Diagnostic System
but scheduled in the optimum (RTMDS) for a major aircraft OEM.
location to maximize the availability This is a solution that has an
of the maintained asset? on-ground-based software, optimizing
Effective • Effective Collaboration - Who the maintenance of fly-by-wire
Collaboration aircraft, equipped with an On-Board
offers partnerships to be fostered
and who represents the Maintenance System (OMS) and
competition, either currently or, just sensors, and a Real-Time
Predictive Technology
Maintenance Utilization as importantly, in the future? The Communication System
scope for genuine collaboration (ACARS/ATSU).
with OEMs, third-party logistics
providers and suppliers has never As a longstanding partner of airline
been greater, but it has, conversely MRO, aircraft manufacturers and MRO
Competitive Supply Chain perhaps, never been easier for service providers, Capgemini
Services Optimization
organizations to reconfigure understands that the true value is not
themselves by developing new found in the technology itself, but in
capabilities and service offerings. the way maintenance organizations are
• Technology Utilization - Which structured and how they integrate the
new technologies can be deployed flow and usage of this newly available
now and how best should they be information into their existing
used? The rate of technological maintenance planning activities.
change is increasing and is rapidly
exceeding the industry’s ability to Today, being able to manage the vast
keep up. We live in genuinely amount of information that the
“exponential times” and those that maintenance organization requires is
can identify which changes offer the critical, and the leverage and
greatest value will be the industry integration of all information (old and
leaders of the future. new) in a structured and decisive way
• Supply Chain Optimization - will dramatically increase the
Where should critical components operational efficiencies of MRO
and services be physically located organizations.
around the world to provide the
quickest possible reaction time Let’s take an example of how this
without over-committing extremely integration can ideally be used to give
valuable capital investment in slow- a maintenance organization a
moving inventory and redundant competitive advantage and bring value
facilities? to its customers.
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Aerospace and Defense the way we see it
Airline X is departing from Munich to the correct procedure to follow to The diagnostic message is
Lisbon. The passenger aircraft is correct it. During the flight, the crew automatically sent back to the ECAM
equipped with OMS and analyzes the problem and enters the in order to provide the crew of Airline
ACARS/ATSU. necessary information into the X with the results of the diagnostic,
Electronic Logbook. so that they can safely continue their
After its departure from Munich, and flight.
while flying over France, on-board At the same time, the On-Board
sensors detect an abnormal situation. Centralized Maintenance Computer From Capgemini’s point of view, the
The sensors’ information is processed automatically and instantaneously real value of generating integration is
and fed into the Flight Warning sends ACARS diagnostic data to for RTMDS to automatically and
Computer, which checks data RTMDS. simultaneously send the diagnostic
discrepancies. Information is then message into the ERP maintenance
displayed in the Electronic The automatic diagnostics processed system. This triggers an automatic
Centralized Aircraft Monitor (ECAM) in RTMDS advise that it is safe to workflow to check the actual
and provides the aircraft crew with continue the flight to Lisbon and configuration of the aircraft and check
messages detailing the problem and change the faulty part on arrival. the parts that need replacing.
ACARS/ATSU
Central Maintenance
Historical dB: System
- Flight
- Post-Flight Report (Message & Alarm)
- Logbook, Action...
Airline network
Maintenance Execution
System (MES)
Source: Capgemini
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Aerospace and Defense the way we see it
Robert Pavkovic
Aerospace and Defense Global Segment Director
Alnoor Dramsi
MRO Segment Lead
+33 6 15 45 24 84
alnoor.dramsi@capgemini.com
John Armstrong
UK Aerospace and Defense MRO Lead
+44 (0)870 906 7987
john.armstrong@capgemini.com