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Smarter maintenance planning at Fokker

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The client,

Fokker Services is a leading provider of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for aviation. Aircraft and component availability is critical: every unplanned stoppage costs time and money. We helped Fokker plan maintenance more effectively using data rather than fixed schedules.

Client Fokker Services Group
Industry Maakindustrie
Services AI Solutions
Tools & techniques Data Science, Dash, Plotly, Python, SQL, Alembic

The challenge,

Maintenance was largely scheduled at fixed intervals and based on engineers’ experience. That experience was valuable, but it sometimes meant maintenance happened too early or too late, and unexpected issues put asset availability under pressure.

Fokker wanted to make maintenance more predictable and coordinate the use of people, parts and hangar capacity.

Our solution,

We developed a planning tool that combines historical maintenance data, sensor data and operational data in a predictive model. The tool shows when maintenance is actually needed and helps planners schedule work orders, parts and capacity in advance.

This shifts maintenance from reactive to proactive, with less unexpected downtime.

The approach,

We brought together the scattered data sources on a Databricks platform in Azure and trained the predictive models. Working closely with maintenance engineers, we translated their knowledge into features that make the models reliable.

The result is higher asset availability, less unplanned downtime and a schedule the whole organisation can rely on.

“Smarter maintenance planning for maximum asset availability”
Team Maintenance Engineering Fokker Services

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