HAMBURG -- Lufthansa Technik has launched its Maintwise maintenance consulting service, which teh company touts will lower maintenance costs and create greater planning certainty. Through the service, Lufthansa Technik AG develops end-to-end maintenance concepts tailored to the individual needs of the customer. Maintwise is available to customers of Lufthansa Technik as a consulting service.
Maintwise allows Lufthansa Technik to address the individual aircraft operator's highly specific circumstances. In cooperation with the customer's planning and engineering experts, Lufthansa Technik engineers devise an individual maintenance concept, which harmonizes the flight plan optimally with the maintenance program. Depending on the customer's objective, attention focuses on delivering better aircraft availability or lower maintenance costs. Further objectives can include improving planning stability or increasing flexibility for aircraft deployment.
The customer's requirements are identified in a first step. The Lufthansa Technik experts then define possible optimization criteria. Various concepts are simulated and evaluated. Based on these investigations, Lufthansa Technik develops a series of optimized maintenance concepts from which the customer chooses the model best suited to their objectives. The handover of the final concept to the customer marks the conclusion of the project.
Airlines are starting to see high demand, and bigger fleets, which is causing their own maintenance services to become overwhelmed. Consulting and Market intelligence services provided by companies such as Lufthansa Technic and Forecast International, can help many businesses in the airline industry, to gain a better hold of the market.