AAR

The Europe Maintenance, Repair, & Overhaul (MRO) distribution market size was valued at USD 196.21 billion in 2020 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.6% from 2021 to 2028. The growing demand for repair, maintenance, and service operations in manufacturing and industrial activities, majorly in Norway, Sweden, Germany, and Finland, is set to create various growth opportunities within the MRO market. The commercial availability of the MRO products and services has created a wide scope for the development of industrial and manufacturing activities in Europe. This has also improved the sales of the prominent players in the European economies.

For the aviation MRO industry, adopting new practices and new technologies has always been high on the list of priorities; and the prospect for change and innovation has always been a constant. However, one of the major hurdles the MRO industry is facing at present is the impending labor shortage and the procurement of highly skilled workers.
While the MRO arena may feel somewhat shackled by the lack of maintenance technicians, which in turn may lead to an increase in maintenance costs being incurred by airlines, the answer can be found in enhanced optimization practices and the implementation of advanced software solutions. While many organizations are searching for a solution that helps them meet these complex needs, AAR—a pioneering firm in the MRO landscape—has devised a myriad of solutions and developed pragmatic MRO services to help the aviation industry with all its logistics/maintenance/parts supply needs.

Innovative Maintenance Services for Aviation

AAR is an independent provider of aviation services to commercial and government customers worldwide. The company’s after market expertise and award-winning solutions help customers increase efficiency and reduce costs while maintaining high levels of quality, service and safety. AAR provides world-class service on a diverse range of aircraft platforms including Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier and Embraer.

The company’s services include: heavy maintenance inspections, modifications, upgrades, refurbishments, and more. AAR’s high-quality work, delivered on time and on budget provides clients with improved cost-effectiveness in addition to engineering and technical resources, without the need for additional head count. By using the firm’s services, companies gain access to an expanded talent pool providing a wide variety of disciplines and level of expertise that may not be available in-house.

Upon supplementing clients’ engineering and maintenance resources, AAR’s seamless integration with their processes and procedures greatly improves cycle time while reducing project backlogs. All of the maintenance and repair is performed in compliance with a client’s established policies, procedures and paperwork requirements. AAR provides “total care” for their engineering service needs, handling the entire value chain including initial feasibility studies, cost and benefit analysis, engineering design, substantiation certification, fabrication and installation documentation and modification kits. The MRO organization develops innovative engineering and installation solutions for aircraft interior reconfigurations, structural and systems modifications, and avionics upgrades. It also undertakes concept and detailed designs, stress analysis of metal and composite structures, and mechanical and electrical systems integration using advanced CAD/CAE systems.

A Partner to Government and Commercial Airlines

For over 60 years, AAR has helped the world’s airlines and governments maximize aircraft uptime and minimize downtime with integrated solutions—reducing operating costs while maintaining high levels of safety, service, and quality. AAR partners with governments to improve asset availability and customer mission capability. Doing more with less through the integration of IT platforms, AAR brings extensive know-how, procurement experience, and the best applications of commercial best practices. AAR’s CLS and PBL solutions are designed to integrate with customer needs and requirements. Each program team orients itself around client processes, bringing solutions to bear with little administrative impact. AAR has successfully integrated its parts inventory platforms with numerous U.S. and foreign government procurement systems, maintaining the strictest data integrity standards.

While the company works extensively with government agencies, it also develops integration solutions for the commercial landscape. AAR develops, implements and manages customized end-to-end supply chain and repair management programs for commercial airline customers around the world. AAR provides power-by-the-hour component support for aircraft and airline fleets, component repair, overhaul and warranty services with full process management services. The firm’s fully customizable programs support the entire supply chain, providing customers with increased efficiencies and performance at a lower total cost. As the clients’ single point of contact, AAR replaces hundreds of suppliers, focused on your key KPIs for materials, warehouse operations and quality control departments. AAR’s value added services also provide Kitting and Direct Shipments to line stations as needed.

A Customer-Centric MRO Company

One of the main reasons behind the lack of skilled workers is time-based. Suitably qualified aircraft maintenance technicians (AMT) can take up to eight years to reach the stage of becoming a fully-licensed AMT. This elongated time scale can significantly impact outdated line maintenance processes which give rise to overruns on MRO planning time and an upsurge in unplanned tasks. As the airline and aerospace industry has changed so much in recent years the larger airlines are taking full advantage of every new development, Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and Big Data. These changes are forcing airlines and their partners, to address the implementation of optimization software to decrease aircraft-on-ground (AOG) times and reduce maintenance spend.

AAR utilizes all such cutting-edge technology to engineer new-age solutions to tackle new-age challenges. Keeping customers at the heart of all it operations, AAR’s MRO solutions and services are aimed at being the best at designing and delivering technical, operational and financial solutions to enhance the efficiency and competitiveness of commercial aviation and government customers. At AAR, the team constantly searches for the right thing to do for their customers, employees, partners, and societies. They wake up in the morning knowing they have to deliver, and at the end of the day, believe they have donetheir best and are encouraged to return the next day and do even better.