Case Study: Airbus achieves faster maintenance and major cost savings with Tego flyable parts tagging

Airbus - Customer Case Study

The customer, Airbus, faced a significant challenge in the aviation industry: the maintenance and inspection process for its aircraft was heavily burdened by the difficulty of locating, retrieving, and updating the paper-based documentation for thousands of parts. This inefficiency meant maintenance crews spent the bulk of their time on administrative tasks rather than actual repairs. In response, Airbus launched its Flyable Parts Program and selected Tego, Inc. as its vendor for a novel wireless, battery-less solution to embed digital data on parts.

Tego's solution provided the technology to store and manage digital lifecycle information directly on aircraft components. This allowed for critical data, such as manufacturing details and maintenance history, to be instantly accessible at the point of need. The results were dramatic, including a reduction in aircraft seat and life vest inspections from 14 hours to just 26 minutes. For airline customers like Delta, inspection times for oxygen canisters were cut from hours to under a minute, saving 7,000 labor hours annually. Due to these overwhelming benefits, Airbus accelerated the program's rollout, and Tego's technology became the standard for millions of parts across its fleet.

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