Airbus & Delta Airlines Digital Alliance To Produce New Cross-Fleet Predictive Maintenance Solutions

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Airbus and Delta Air Lines will develop new predictive maintenance and health-monitoring solutions for airline customers worldwide. (Photo and caption courtesy of Airbus.)

Airbus and Delta Air Lines have formed a digital alliance that will entail the companies creating new “predictive maintenance and health-monitoring solutions” for availability to global airline customers starting in 2020. Customers will access the solutions through a unified portal available via Airbus’s Skywise platform, described by Airbus as an “open data-integration platform” that, among other things, “helps airlines to better optimize their internal operations, to save on costs, and to support safety.”

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Don Mitacek, SVP Technical Operations, Delta Air Lines; and Norman Baker, SVP Digital Solutions, Airbus. (Photo courtesy of Airbus.)

Enriched Predictive Maintenance

Airbus and Delta say the new cross-fleet solutions will pull from each company’s expertise in airframes, systems, and engines. Don Mitacek, Delta senior vice president of technical operations, says the partnership’s further development of predictive maintenance abilities will bring “the deep analytical prowess of Airbus’s Skywise platform in conjunction with the rich technical and operational knowledge of the Delta predictive maintenance team.”

Delta will be the maiden user of the resulting solutions. Last year, the company signed a multi-year contract with Airbus to use the Skywise platform for its Airbus-supplied A320 and A330 fleets, which total 400 aircraft. Airbus reports that 90-plus airlines and roughly 7,000 aircraft have used and connected to the Skywise platform to date.

Enhanced Fleet Availability

Dubbing the alliance with Delta a “world first,” Norman Baker, Airbus senior vice president of digital solutions, says the partnership encompasses “the major skills needed by airlines to keep their aircraft operationally ready.” Skywise-powered predictive maintenance, he says, “is now widely proven with our customers as the best way to achieve comprehensive insights into aircraft operation issues, enabling them to maintain higher levels of fleet availability.”

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Commercial and corporate jet manufacturer Airbus and airline Delta Airlines have created a digital alliance that develop new cross-fleet predictive-maintenance and health-monitoring solutions made available to customers across the world. (Photo courtesy of Airbus.)

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Source: Airbus

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