Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul

If you are maintaining aircraft or if you are looking for innovative maintenance technologies to improve the availability of your aircraft or to reduce costs, NLR can support you. Or if you want to prepare for the future of aircraft MRO, we are your sparring partner.

Maintenance management

Maintenance management If you want to optimise the cost effectiveness of your airline and maintenance operations, NLR can help you. NLR creates smarter organisations by providing managerial decision support tools and consultancy services for strategic challenges. We are capable of balancing business, economic and technological issues. NLR can strengthen your maintenance management. NLR offers support […]
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Maintenance engineering

Maintenance engineering If you want to improve your maintenance activities, we can help. NLR creates smarter solutions by combining existing knowledge, techniques and methods. We optimise your maintenance operation, maintenance planning, and resources, spares and personnel allocation. We drive process and product improvements, for example with quantitative data analysis. NLR can make your maintenance operations […]
Non-destructive inspection (NDI)

Maintenance technology

Maintenance technology If you want to improve the productivity of your maintenance operation or if you are looking for solutions to solve personnel shortages, NLR can help. NLR creates smarter technologies by developing innovative soft and hardware tools and solutions. We create new maintenance resources and capabilities. We employ cutting-edge knowledge and technologies to automate […]

Maintenance training

Maintenance training If you want effective maintenance training or if you want to increase training value, NLR can help you. NLR creates smart training curriculums and training devices with state-of-the-art training concepts and technologies. We create training value using state-of-the-art training design principles and modern technologies such as virtual and augmented reality. We can offer […]

Operators, maintenance organisations and OEMs aim for maximum aircraft availability at minimal costs. This objective drives, to a large extent, the value of aircraft maintenance. Achieving these goals requires expert knowledge and game-changing technologies. NLR offers practical solutions for excellence in maintenance operations and innovative maintenance technologies to improve availability and affordability for civil and military maintenance organizations, airlines and OEMs.

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GERDA robot for Smart maintenance inspections and smart training
Maintenance and Repair

18 December 2024

R&D case: Smart maintenance inspections and smart training devices

Maintenance is important to make aircraft operations a success. Unfortunately, the MRO industry is faced with a shortage of labour and pollution. How can we use innovations to help the industry? The challenge Aircraft maintenance organisations perform high-tech maintenance on aircraft. The maintenance activities are labour intensive and require considerable resources. In this research, we […]
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Maintenance and Repair

14 February 2022

R&D case: Engine condition monitoring for predictive maintenance

An important trend in the sustainment of aircraft engines is the transition from preventive maintenance to predictive maintenance. This concept aims to minimise the engine down-time and maintenance costs while preserving its required performance level and airworthiness. For this it is necessary that the momentary engine condition can be established and that this condition can […]
Maintenance and Repair

11 February 2022

R&D case: Digital crack and corrosion logbook

Digital crack and corrosion logbook. Reliability Centred Maintenance processes such as MSG-3 aim to decrease the maintenance burden, mitigate operating risks and deliver sustainable equipment reliability and readiness. For this, high fidelity inspection and maintenance records need to be available. The challenge The data entry portal of the current generation of maintenance data systems is […]

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