Over 30 improvements carried out to speed up MRO efficiency

SINGAPORE, Feb. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — (SINGAPORE AIRSHOW) 

Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) enterprise introduced as we speak the numerous progress in advancing upkeep, restore, and overhaul (MRO) efficiency spearheaded by the opening of its Singapore Technology Accelerator (STA).

In September 2022, Pratt & Whitney announced the intent to establish the technology accelerator in collaboration with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). STA has since delivered over 30 improvements which is able to maximize the productiveness in MRO processes. STA can also be working with greater than 20 Singapore corporations to develop new, related applied sciences within the world business aviation sector.

Applied throughout 4 Pratt & Whitney Singapore-based MRO amenities, STA expertise tasks give attention to automation, superior inspection, linked manufacturing facility and digital twin, developed to enhance MRO store efficiency.

“STA is a focal point for the innovative thinking and enterprising spirit of our employees, applied to scale technologies across our MRO facilities faster and better,” stated Gilbert Sim, director, Aftermarket Global Operations Technology and CORE at Pratt & Whitney. “We will continue working with MRO facilities and centers of excellence in Singapore and throughout the network to deliver more technology insertion projects. Together with our steadfast commitment to investments in MRO capacity, we are expanding our capabilities to support our customers around the world.”

Pratt & Whitney is empowering each its personal MRO operations and prospects with essential insights into efficiency, high quality, capability, productiveness and value by means of the continued digitalization and automatization of store flooring beneath Industry 4.0 tenets.

Through expertise insertion tasks just like the improvements pioneered by STA and validated at native amenities in Singapore, these improvements can be rolled out progressively throughout Pratt & Whitney’s world MRO footprint to learn prospects with improved throughput and turn- round time.

Pratt & Whitney can also be growing and deploying superior restore capabilities by way of different facilities of excellence around the globe, together with rising fields like synthetic intelligence and machine studying to stay a pacesetter within the evolving MRO and aviation panorama.

About Pratt & Whitney
Pratt & Whitney is a world chief within the design, manufacture and repair of plane engines and auxiliary energy models. To be taught extra, go to www.prattwhitney.com.

About RTX
RTX is the world’s largest aerospace and protection firm. With greater than 185,000 world staff, we push the boundaries of expertise and science to redefine how we join and shield our world. Through industry-leading companies – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon – we’re advancing aviation, engineering built-in protection techniques for operational success, and growing next-generation expertise options and manufacturing to assist world prospects deal with their most important challenges. The firm, with 2023 gross sales of $68.9 billion, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

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