HANNOVER, Germany, April 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Monday at the
Hannover Messe industrial fair, Microsoft Corp. and Rolls-Royce, a
leading manufacturer of aero engines for the airline and business
aviation market, announced they are collaborating to bring new
capabilities to Rolls-Royce customers. Rolls-Royce will integrate
Microsoft Azure IoT Suite and Cortana Intelligence Suite into its
service solutions to expand its digital capabilities to support the
current and next generation of Rolls-Royce intelligent engines.
Rolls-Royce engines power more than 50,000 flights around the
world each month, and the company constantly strives to improve
aircraft efficiency, drive up aircraft availability and reduce
engine maintenance costs for customers. To do that, Rolls-Royce
offers a broad range of service solutions, including its
industry-leading TotalCare® services, focused on keeping
its customers' engines generating maximum value for them. One key
to delivering these services is observing trends and anomalies and
using the right data to help airlines determine what actions to
take to save money or improve operations.
At Hannover Messe, Rolls-Royce and Microsoft will demonstrate
how Microsoft will help Rolls-Royce further develop its digital
capabilities. Rolls-Royce will tackle some of the greatest airline
operational challenges by using Azure IoT Suite to collect and
aggregate data from disparate, geographically distributed sources
and Cortana Intelligence Suite to uncover data insights. Data
sets such as engine health data, air traffic control information,
route restrictions and fuel usage data will be collected to detect
operational anomalies and trends and then provide intelligent
performance feedback on the findings. Using Azure Stream Analytics
and Microsoft Power BI dashboards, the goal is to uncover data
insights that will enable airlines to improve their operational
performance and increase fuel efficiency.
"Our customers are looking for ways to leverage the digital
landscape to increase efficiency and improve their operations,"
said Tom Palmer, senior vice
president, Services, Civil Aerospace, at Rolls-Royce. "By working
with Microsoft we can really transform our digital services,
supporting customers right across engine-related aircraft
operations to make a real difference to performance."
"Rolls-Royce has always been a pioneer in engine services, and
this collaboration will create a new digital engine for Rolls-Royce
to deliver an even better service to its customers across its
world-class engine fleet through Microsoft Azure," said
Jason Zander, corporate vice
president of Microsoft Azure at Microsoft.
With this collaboration, engine management will move beyond the
current levels of proactive monitoring of engine health and
inflight performance. Through a greater understanding of flight
operations excellence, fuel usage and maintenance planning,
Rolls-Royce's airline customers will be able to better retain asset
value throughout an engine's life cycle, reduce flight disruptions
and potentially save millions of dollars per year.
A demonstration of the collaboration is on display at the
Microsoft Booth at Hannover Messe 2016 in Hall 7, Booth C40.
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