Jason Ford

C2I 2018: minimising jet engine downtime with remote boreblending

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With downtime penalties adding up to six-figure sums per day, Rolls-Royce had to find a way of minimising jet engine maintenance

Collaborate to Innovate 2018

Category: Defence, Security & Aerospace  

Winner: Keyhole surgery for jet engines

Partners: Rolls-Royce plc, University of Nottingham 

Rolls-Royce holds the unique position of being only one of a small handful of companies globally that can produce turbofan engines for the world’s civil airlines.

The company currently has 4,567 units in its large jet engine in-service fleet and delivered 259 large engines in H1 2018. In the same period, services to large engines accounted for $1.3bn, a year-on-year increase of 25 per cent.

This substantial slice of revenue is the result of the company’s long-term service agreements which, for most jet engine contracts, puts Rolls-Royce in charge of covering the cost of maintenance, overhaul and repair of customers’ engines and the fleet is getting bigger.

With Airbus alone, the Trent XWB-97 has entered service on the A350-1000; and the Trent 7000 – the engine that will power Airbus’ A330neo - received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification in July 2018.

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