Operating leading-edge engine facilities in Paris and Amsterdam, AFI KLM E&M offers integrated tailor-made services adjusted to the needs of its customers' organization.
Thanks to its experience as an Airline-MRO engine shop for over 75 years, the group has developed broad MRO capabilities on GE and CFMI engines from the newest engine types to the prior ones, able to support all customer's fleet evolution.
AFI KLM E&M is proud to serve a wide portfolio of customer airlines of all kinds (from low cost to legacy carriers) and from all over the world: our shops are approved by a large number of aviation authorities (including USA, Japan and China).
Our unique contract management flexibility allows us to adapt our services to any change in our customers' fleet and needs during the contract term.
As an airline-MRO, we perfectly understand the need of our customers to reduce their engine maintenance costs a purpose for which we can help them using different means such as: customized workscopes, parts repair development to avoid costly replacement, as well as used serviceable parts installation.
Our Airline-MRO position also guarantees our independence when it comes to choosing the most effective options for our customers' engines. We are able to get the best from our strong partnership with OEMs as well as to develop alternative solutions that increase our customers' benefits.
In any case, AFI KLM E&M provides:
> guaranteed TAT;
> engineering Expertise to optimize both costs and "Mean Time Between Removal" (MTBR);
> slot flexibility through our engine MRO network;
> workmanship quality based on a high skilled and experienced labor force;
> contract flexibility ranging from T&M to Fixed Prices, or different kinds of Flight Hours programs.
AFI KLM E&M overhauls the engines used in its own fleet alongside those of customers at leading-edge shops in Paris and Amsterdam. AFI KLM E&M is continually investing in its infrastructure to make sure it stays at the technological forefront.
Ranging from disassembly to repair and reassembly followed by validation tests, etc., the various stages in engine overhaul are carried out by our experts according to proven processes.
Our engine shops capacity reaches 600 overhauls a year on a wide range of engine types.
We offer our customers flexibility to align with their operational priorities allowing them to achieve the optimum trade-off between control over TAT, maintenance costs and time on-wing:
> Fixed price: this solution enables customers to budget their engine overhaul costs avoiding unpleasant surprises;
> Time & Material: for even greater cost control the price is based on the time and materials needed for engine overhaul.
As a launch airline or long-time operator of several engine types, AFI KLM E&M has developed acknowledged experience in identifying and correcting specific technical problems. We use the feedback from our fleet operations to devise targeted, tailor-made workscopes while keeping TAT to a minimum.
Our Hospital Chain solutions allow customers to control their operational risks and costs through an appropriate preventive policy, as well as answer their needs for unscheduled repairs, based on our slot flexibility. In the end, we build together customized solutions matching your operational constraints, your engines technical status, your TAT and your reliability requirements.
Alongside with our full engine overhaul services, we are able to provide individual modules repairs to customers' shops having a partial capability or requiring additional capacity. In such cases, our customers can fully rely on our long-time experience in engine shops and on the quality of our highly skilled workforce.
AFI KLM E&M's Netherlands-based EPCOR subsidiary overhauls and repairs APUs that fit A320, A330, 340, 737NG and 777 fleets.
A broad range of services can be provided to your engines' FTRs, from minor repairs to comprehensive flight hour programs, offering guaranteed availability and technical support.
FTRs are part of our wider engine nacelles solution, designed to minimize your operating risks and costs through a preventive maintenance program for nacelles with more than 30,000 flight hours or 6,000 cycles.
AFI KLM E&M repairs a large scope of engine "line replaceable units" (LRU), to support both your on-wing and off-wing needs.
Our customers are offered different kind of solutions to support their LRU maintenance needs, from single repairs to standard exchanges, spare support or flight hour programs.
Our extensive logistics network guarantees rapid, efficient, 24/7 AOG support services to minimize aircraft downtime. We are also able to integrate your engine accessories within a comprehensive engine support, or within an aircraft components support.
And based on our significant operational experience as an airline-MRO, we can advise you on your "main base kits" (MBK) in order to optimize your investments.
In the end, you will be able to reduce the size of your inventory thanks to low TAT and a high reliability, and to join the numerous engine operators who already chose to send their LRUs to us rather than to the OEMs.
Workshops at both AFI KLM E&M and our CRMA subsidiary offer extensive capabilities for engine parts repairs. We provide OEM repairs as well as alternative ones through DER or DOA approvals. Our broad customer portfolio includes major OEMs and MROs.
Engine parts repair has been organized, as a Center of Excellence within AFI KLM E&M, which assures a proactive repairs development policy in order to avoid scrap replacement. Such a constant expansion of our in-house repairs capabilities represents an important way to reduce your engine maintenance costs, while the high quality of our repairs contributes to extend your engine parts' lifespan.
AFI KLM E&M leverages its experience as a fleet operator to carry out in-depth technical monitoring of its customers' engine fleets.
Alongside with being a form of asset management that preserve the market value of your engines, our fleet engineering solutions are a key to let you control your flight hours costs, optimizing the balance between engine reliability and maintenance costs through a proven engine removal strategy.
We also provide Engine Technical standard Optimization through Service Bulletin recommendations in line with your operational targets and engine's owner requirements.
Measurements carried out on engines provide daily data, allowing our AFI KLM E&M engineering team to monitor their performance (fuel consumption, EGT margin, oil consumption, etc.) and recommend on-wing maintenance actions. This approach leads to the following proven benefits:
> increased engine on-wing lifespan;
> incident prevention;
> reduced engine operational and maintenance costs.
Drawing on its extensive operational expertise, AFI KLM E&M is able to recommend customized engine performance monitoring parameters. Alerts generated through this process allow a closer follow-up, in line with the customer's needs and resulting in an even more refined monitoring than the OEM's.
Every stage of the overhaul process takes place under the eagle eye of one of our specialists.
We build customized workscopes in close cooperation with customers' needs regarding engine performance and costs. And we create shop visit cost reduction through the most efficient technical solutions for your parts, looking for available repairs or used serviceable parts.
Last but not least: should you need a second assessment expertise, our engineers will assist your technical team in any remote engine shop.
Based on the long-standing relationships AFI KLM E&M has built with OEMs and its broad engineering experience in handling warranties for large fleets, we offer problem-free management of your warranty claims. We oversee warranties on all parts that have not come fully up to expectations.
On-wing support can bring substantial savings for an operator, as an alternative to engine removal and shipment to a shop for repair. Therefore our On-Wing support teams carry out engines inspections and repairs for customers on their own premises or those of AFI KLM E&M. When scheduled during aircraft maintenance checks and performed on-site, these services can even prevent you from the need of a spare engine.
With our on-wing inspections and repairs, you will benefit from:
> our ability to carry out preventive maintenance as well as to manage unscheduled events;
> an extension of your engines' time on wing;
> Quick turn time
> improved engine performance
> fewer engine removals, shipping costs and associated spare engine costs;
> No expenses for engine shipping
AFI KLM E&M has developed an innovative, environmentally-sound system to increase engine on-wing performance and lifespan. Engine water wash can be carried out during a maintenance check in the hangar or at the platform. The system optimizes engine performance, leading to lower fuel consumption (0.5-1%) and reduced greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a time on-wing extension through the EGT margin improvement.
Based on the current support of more than 350 aircraft flying all over the world, our proven technical expertise and efficient logistics will help customers minimize their aircraft groundtime in case of an engine related AOG.
Next to the single engine replacement performed by our on-site assistance team, we can offer an integrated support including the spare engine supply as well as the care of your unserviceable engine within our dedicated Hospital Chain.
Our Flight Hour Program provides an integrated service offering full engine maintenance support at a fixed cost per flight hour.
Your benefits:
> engine maintenance cost predictability;
> flexible customized F/H programs with different financial scenarios, adapted to your fleet size, ownership and age;
> financial risks transferred to your engine MRO provider
> simple invoicing process;
And fixed prices doesn't mean no flexibility: we can define with each customer the best balance between its needs of expenses smoothing and cash preservation.
Pooling share large similarity with flight hour maintenance programs as the pooling service includes the guaranteed availability of spare engines.
Maintenance cost is paid per flight hour per engine and the availability is paid by a fixed monthly fee or flight hour rate.
Integrated services include services such as engineering, engine monitoring, warranty control, line maintenance support and AOG support.
It grants you:
> predictable maintenance costs;
> constant cash flow;
> guaranteed availability of spares;
> access to AFI KLM E&M's performance and experience;
> a long-term partnership.
Our Xchange program for the CF6-50 engine is an availability program based on engine title transfers, resulting in fixed shop visit prices (without exclusions).
Your advantages are:
> "ready-to-go" serviceable engines on-site;
> engine reliability with a maximum 24/72 hour availability gap;
> minimum total cost of ownership (TCO);
> predictable costs;
> long-term partnership;
> total engine solution with no micro-management by customer required.
Spare engine assistance avoids you costly investments in your own spares and secures the continuity of your operations by giving you access to a leased spare engine.
