Although the promise of big data insights into airplane performance is literally huge — a jet engine alone can throw off a half-terabyte of info each flight — Lufthansa Technik, the world’s largest commercial aircraft maintenance, repair & operations company (“MRO”), sees even bigger potential for correlating that with other data it collects if not uniquely, then at least more broadly and deeply.
“You need to understand not just engines, or wheels, but every aspect of a plane’s performance, whether in the sky, or on the ground,” explained Dr. Helge Sachs, Lufthansa Technik’s head of Corporate Innovation.
“We call it nose-to-tail insights.”

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