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Published by: SMI Publishing, Ltd
Published: Jan. 30, 2006
Table of Contents
- Day 1
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Mr Ian Harbison, Editor, MRO Management.
- 9.10 COMMERCIAL AVIATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
- Innovation and adaptation for a changing world scene
- Overview: critical issues in aviation today
- Low Cost Carriers: safety issues in MRO
- Air traffic volume and its management
- The expansion into Eastern Europe and beyond
- The challenge of integrating new platforms - A380 and B787
- The future of aviation regulation in Europe
- Mr Mike Bell, Safety Regulation Group, Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
- 9.50 MRO MARKET ASSESSMENT
- Key MRO trends and their market implications
- MRO market demand and future growth prospects
- Key trends impacting the MRO market place including changes in the supply chain, customer needs and technologies
- The implications for MRO participants: airlines, OEMs and third party MRO suppliers
- Mr David Stewart, Principal, Aero Strategy Limited.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
- General overview
- Role of EASA
- Rulemaking within the EASA framework
- Overview of certification and maintenance obligations and procedures
- International co-operation
- Ms Catherine Erkelens, Joint Head, International Aviation and Aerospace Group, Bird & Bird.
- 11.40 MRO CHALLENGES
- Strategies to Manage Cost Pressures
- Understand and focus on your core business and product line
- Utilize smart implementation of lean tools
- Take advantage of enterprise planning for success
- Leverage strategic partnerships
- Mr John Laughter, Vice President, Maintenance Operations, Delta Airlines.
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 1.50 PMA PARTS: THREAT OR OPPORTUNITY?
- The opportunities to exploit PMA parts to reduce overall MRO Costs
- The history of PMA parts and how they are used
- The regulatory framework we need to work within
- How to assess where PMA parts could or should be used
- The role of testing to ensure the parts are fit for purpose
- What are the blockers to increasing the use of PMA parts
- Looking forward, will PMA parts help to deliver a cost effective solution?
- Mr Michael Skinner, Manager, Quality Engineering Operations, British Airways Engineering.
- 2.30 AMERICAN AIRLINES - THE NEWEST LOW COST CARRIER
- AA aviation services - the newest MRO
- AA's latest airline transformation
- Visible airline changes
- Less visible workforce changes
- Management - labor partnership
- Measurable changes in AA's maintenance operations
- The future of our MRO business
- Mr Danny Martinez, Vice President, Line Maintenance, American Airlines.
- Mr John Marshall, Director, Maintenance Services, American Airlines.
- 3.10 Afternoon Tea
- 3.40 THE ULTRAMAIN MAINTENANCE AND LOGISTICS SYSTEM
- Planning and scheduling optimisation
- The challenge: maintaining a fleet in-house
- The need to ensure dispatch reliability and aircraft availability
- Overview: the Ultramain system
- Deploying Ultramain across the MRO range of operations
- Managing maintenance requirements
- Effective procurement, planning and forecasting
- Mr Lawrence Chan, Ultramain Project Team Leader, Cathay Pacific.
- 4.20 INNOVATIONS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MRO
- Considerations for selection and implementation
- Many airlines continue to use legacy IT systems for MRO
- Systems are becoming increasingly expensive
- Aviation organizations that are seeking to modernize MRO IT systems
- What IT options are available?
- What considerations should be looked at?
- What are the main issues?
- Mr Matthew Tobin, Vice President, MXI Technologies.
- 5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
- Day 2
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Mr Stephen Hunt, Capability Director, Aspire Consulting.
- 9.10 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
- Standard terms and conditions: does Unfair Contract Terms Act apply?
- International contracts
- Consequential damages, International Aviation and Aerospace Group, Bird & Bird.
- 9.50 THE AIRBUS MRO NETWORK
- Freedom of choice for customers
- In-house MRO: the constraints
- Low Cost Carriers and their MRO needs
- The demand for guidance and freedom of choice
- The MRO Network: the solution
- Working with the Network
- Expanding the Network
- Mr Michael Blyth, Dir. MRO Support Management (SPS), Airbus.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 MRO CHALLENGES IN SOUTH AMERICA
- VEM Varig and its strategies for effective MRO in the 21st Century
- MRO forecast for Latin American market
- Region capabilities
- Advantages & issues going to Latin America MROs
- VEM brief overview
- Strategic alliances
- Lean MRO
- Mr Luis Alberto Correa, Vice President Marketing and Sales, VEM Varig.
- 11.40 MAINTENANCE IN A SMALL/MEDIUM SIZE AIRLINE
- How technology helps
- How to survive in a new environment
- Past, present and future
- Is it worth investing in new technologies?
- Tools and equipment
- Human factors: are we ready?
- New technologies and maintenance costs
- Mr Vanja Roller, Executive Vice President, Maintenance and Engineering, Croatia Airlines.
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 1.50 TRANSFORMING FROM LEGACY CARRIER STATUS TO COMPETITOR IN A LOW COST CARRIER WORLD
- A Technical Operations perspective
- NWA Technical Operations has undergone many changes in order to lower costs while maintaining safety and reliability
- Third party maintenance providers have played a large role in the process
- Supporting organizations and processes have added to change to accommodate new ways of doing business
- Numerous constraints have dictated timing of transformation
- Mr Kris Bauer, Senior Vice President, Technical Operations, Northwest Airlines.
- 2.30 PMA - THE NEED FOR ALTERNATIVE SUPPLIERS
- Driving cost reduction
- How alternatives have developed in other industries
- What is different about our industry?
- How is the market developing?
- Where is the market going?
- Can alternative providers safely support the product?
- Mr Robb Baumann, Parts Group: Senior Vice President, Controls & Acc, Heico Aerospace.
- 3.10 Afternoon Tea
- 3.40 THE LOW COST CARRIER
- Maintaining the low-cost airline
- A low cost perspective
- Price wars: the effects
- Competing with the traditional carriers
- Maintenance: in-house or outsource?
- Future trends in cost-effective MRO
- Is the low-cost model future proof?
- Mr Marshall Barrand, Head, Commercial Sales, Flybe Aviation Services.
- 4.20 HUMAN PERFORMANCE AS A KEY TO RELIABILITY AND COST CONTROL
- Dr William L Rankin, Lead, Boeing.
- 5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
AbstractThe civil aviation MRO market place has seen a number of important trends in recent years, which have wide ranging implications for the aviation industry. These cost reduction led innovations include: continued consolidation, a drive towards outsourcing and a steady increase in the use of PMA parts.
These trends have led to much debate about the future of Aircraft Maintenance, and in order to maintain a market lead, companies are turning to reducing costs and streamlining operations to ensure maximum efficiency and reduced down time, whilst maintaining safety and reliability.
Future MRO in Civil Aviation will address the critical issues that are impacting upon MRO today - and indeed in the future. Themes covered will include: outsourcing, consolidation, cost pressure solutions, MRO networks, IT innovation and implementation, third party service provision, new platform challenges, legal issues and effective management of the repair cycle. This year we have assembled another world class line up of speakers in what promises to be one of the most comprehensive MRO conferences ever seen…
An exceptional speaker line up includes:
- Tony Charaf, Senior Vice President, Technical Operations, Delta Air lines
- Kris Bauer, Senior Vice President, Technical Operations, Northwest Airlines
- Danny Martinez, Vice President, Line Maintenance, American Airlines
- Vanja Roller, Executive Vice President, Maintenance and Engineering, Croatia Airlines
- Michael Blyth, Airbus
- Bruce Hunter, General Manager, Engineering Quality Services, British Airways
- Robb Baumann, President, HEICO Parts Group, HEICO Aerospace Corporation
- Lawrence Chan, Ultramain Project Team Leader, Cathy Pacific
- John Marshall, Director, Maitenance Services, American Airlines
- Luis Alberto Correa, Vice President, Marketing and Sales, VEM Varig Engineering and Maintenance
- Andrew Strong, Director, Engineering, Flybe
- Mike Bell, Group Director, Safety Regulation, Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
- Dr William L Rankin, Lead, Maintenance Human Factors, Boeing
- Paul Briggs, Joint Head, International Aviation and Aerospace Group, Bird & Bird, and Former Group Legal Director, Finance and Treasury, BAE SYSTEMS
- Catherine Erkelens, Joint Head, International Aviation and Aerospace Group, Bird & Bird
- David Stewart, Principle, Aerostrategy
- Matthew Tobin, Vice President, Mxi Technologies
Benefits of Attending Future MRO in Civil Aviation include:
- DEVELOP your understanding of cost-control initiatives in MRO
- GAIN insight into the cost-reduction strategies of major aviation industry players
- REVIEW your approach to outsourcing, contract management and asset utilisation
- LEARN from the case studies and experiences of aviation professionals
- BROADEN your contact base at this focussed networking forum
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