[Avionics Today 11-6-2015] Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M) has signed a partnership with Ramco Systems, which specializes in business software systems, especially in the MRO sector, to set up a joint innovation center in Singapore. A team of around 10 people will work there on designing and developing innovative, rapid-deployment solutions for strategic areas in the aircraft maintenance industry, benefitting AFI KLM E&M customers all around the world.
Air France KLM aircraft. Photo: Air France KLM.
Recently, the group formally created “The MRO Lab – Adaptive Innovations” signature to gather its innovation potential and bring it to the marketplace. The creation of a new, joint R&D center with Ramco is a part of this momentum.
“The team working at The MRO Lab Singapore will be able to benefit from the respective expertise of our two groups in support of their work. This will focus on priority topics identified by their strategic character, from wearable technology to optimization and big data-linked applications, improving customer relations, and streamlining and monitoring of maintenance data, and so on,” said James Kornberg, director of engineering and maintenance innovation at Air France KLM.