GROUND EVENTS
Monitor and predict future aircraft maintenance events
Predictive maintenance has for some time been discussed in aviation as essential to improving efficiencies and costs in aircraft maintenance. Assessing the precise locations and dates of aircraft on the ground and using this to predict future maintenance events is core to driving such efficiency and cost improvements.
Ground Events is a first of its kind tool which enables businesses to analyze the historical maintenance of aircraft, optimize how aircraft are being used, effectively place parts and spares where they are needed, identify retrofit opportunities and more.
Understand where, for how long and why aircraft are spending time on the ground for maintenance and forecast future events, whether that be c-checks, heavy checks, paint work, retrofits and more.
Ground Events is part of Cirium Ascend®, providing aircraft analytics to empower businesses around the world to make dial-shifting financial risk, investment growth strategy and market assessment decisions.
Proactively plan for future aircraft ground events
Analyze the maintenance of aircraft
Access maintenance specific data on top of flight activity information and identify the precise locations and dates of aircraft on the ground. The fast and flexible tool displays all aircraft ground events that last for more than seven days.
Place aircraft and parts where needed
Have confidence using satellite-based flight tracking data which identifies the precise locations of aircraft on the ground, anywhere in the world. Tracking historical scheduled maintenance checks enables the prediction of future scheduled checks.
Identify retrofit opportunities
View specific ground event information with around 35,000 labelled ground events by type of event, such as C-check, heavy check, paint work or retrofit. The proprietary Ground Events data derives from the fusion of Cirium’s fleet, maintenance and flight data.
Optimize how aircraft are being used
Filter aircraft history by aircraft registration and access the context around a ground stay. Use filters to view maintenance events and projections by event type, event start date aircraft type, operator, MRO, lessor, MRO region or country and engine type.
Use more informed analysis to predict the next maintenance event
Aircraft manufacturers
Meet airline service contracts and optimize operations and costs.
MRO providers
Understand the competitive landscape by analyzing the addressable market and inform commercial and operational strategies.
Parts suppliers
identify new opportunities with airlines and get more visibility on the request/demand for the supply chain.
Non-banking financial institutions
Analyze how the maintenance and aftermarket companies are performing by assessing trends and reliably forecast the expected revenue and profits for aerospace companies in a portfolio.
Aircraft lessors
Understand when aircraft assets are due their next maintenance check and uncover opportunities to place new aircraft with airlines that effectively maintain aircraft.
Airlines
Identify aircraft and engines to purchase, MRO providers to work with and airport locations to leverage. Help minimize fleet utilization, time on ground and turnaround times.
Insurers
Analyze aircraft maintenance by airline to assess risk and understand MRO activity for the next 12 months to inform insurance policies.
What’s included in Ground Events?
| Actual maintenance event data Ground Events considers when the last maintenance event occurred and is the basis for predicting future maintenance events. The tool identifies all aircraft ground events that last more than seven days. | Maintenance specific data on top of flight activity Integrates proprietary fleet, maintenance and advanced flight data to identify the precise locations and dates of ground events. Flight information leverages gapless satellite flight tracking data of all modern aircraft globally. | Ground event labels Around 35,000 ground events are labelled for the last 5+ years with the nature of the ground stay, such as C-Check, Heavy Check, Retrofit and Paint work. Supported by Cirium’s experts in fleet data and the aerospace market. |
| Leverages Cirium’s unrivaled fleets data Fleet data in Ground Events derives from industry leading Cirium Fleets data on over 450k unique aircraft records across over 770 aircraft types. Includes data on over 2.7mn aircraft events and over 300 attributes per aircraft. | Flexible and configurable View Ground Events by number of events per airline, MRO, MRO region, aircraft type or lessor. Events are shown per month, quarter or year. | Multiple filters for customized vizualizations Filter by type of ground events, event start date, aircraft type, aircraft registration, serial number, operator, MRO, lessor, MRO region or country and engine type. |
| Unified Cirium access Access the highly dynamic tool using Cirium Ascend’s common interface, complementary to other Ascend products such as Fleets Analyzer, Ascend Profiles and more. | Industry expert data team Fleets data experts with decades of experience, making 2.7k new updates for 1.3k unique aircraft on average per week. Flight data experts making sense of over 200,000 flights per day. | 24/5 customer support 15-person customer support team with a consistent 90%+ satisfaction score. |
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