MRO Monday 2025

Session 1: Digitalization
12.5.2025, 1:30 pm

Amidst rapid technological advancement, the aviation industry is embracing innovative solutions to improve efficiency, safety, and sustainability. Digitalization in aircraft maintenance plays a pivotal role in this transformation, utilizing cutting-edge technologies like Digital Twins, the Asset Administration Shell, and the Internet of Things (IoT). These tools enable real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and seamless data integration across systems, ensuring optimized asset management and reduced operational costs.

This session will delve into the opportunities and challenges of digital transformation in aircraft maintenance, highlighting how these technologies are shaping the future of aviation.

Session 1: Agenda


"Daily MRO Challenges"
Atlas Air Service

"Challenges in Component Maintenance Management"
Swiss International Air Lines - Clemens Grof

"Twinstash - Maintenance Perspective"
DLR MO/FX - H. Meyer & C. Pätzold

"DaMapper - Damage assessment on the basis of ultrasound images"
DLR SY - M. Garbade & Team

Panel
Digital Transformation
Session guests in conversation with the session chair H. Meyer

Session 2: Technology Transfer
12.5.2025, 3:30 pm

Innovation plays a crucial role in enabling economies and societies to tackle significant challenges. Companies that prioritize research and development today are better equipped to adapt and succeed in the future. Technology transfer serves as a vital link between the untapped potential of intellectual properties, such as patents, and their practical market applications. To support this process, our institute and DLR actively engage in various initiatives, including contract research, third-party funded projects, innovation partnerships, licensing, startup development, and training highly skilled personnel for industry.

This session will explore the opportunities and challenges of successful technology transfer while highlighting the diverse collaboration and innovation strategies offered by DLR-MO.

Session 2: Agenda


"A Brief History of MRO Technology Transfer"
DLR MO - Alireza Dadashi

"Technology Transfer at DLR"
DLR WK - Dirk Beckmann

"Digital Tools for the Hangar of the Future"
MHW Consulting - M. Heinecke-Wolter

"Aviation Industry Innovation Processes"
Airbus - Markus Durstewitz

"Rail Industry Innovation Processes"
DB Fahrzeuginstandhaltung

Panel
Chances and Challenges of Technology Transfer
Session guests in conversation with the session chair Alireza Dadashi

Session 3: Maintenance Concepts
13.5.2025, 9:30 am

Achieving climate-neutral aviation by 2050 will require a rapid shift to innovative, climate-friendly aircraft concepts, such as hydrogen-powered flight. To accelerate adoption, operators need clear insights into operating costs, with maintenance—accounting for up to 20%—being a key factor. Furthermore, safe and certified future air travel will require considerations beyond economic assessments to ensure a continued airworthiness.

Consequently, in this session, we will explore the maintenance challenges associated with sustainable energy aircraft concepts, examine the economic impact of maintaining these innovative designs, and discuss regulatory development guidelines that could facilitate compliant and efficient design processes.

Session 3: Agenda


"Economic implications for battery-electric aircraft concepts from a maintenance perspective"
DLR MO - Jan Wolf & Ricardo Dauer

"Standardization hydrogen-powered aircraft"
NLR - Rogier Filippo

"Structural Health Monitoring"
TU Delft - Dimitrios Zarouchas

"Maintenance Planning and Optimization"
TU Delft - Marta Ribeiro

"Guidelines for certifiable health management solutions"
DLR MO - Robert Meissner

Session 4: Human Focused MRO
13.5.2025, 11:30 am

In order to keep up with modern processes, the standard working structures in the hangar need to be modified. Switching to digital technologies enables faster processes that reduce the monetary burden and allow improved accessibility and documentation of repairs. However, new technologies and the associated changes in everyday working life often lack acceptance by workers.

The session on Human Focused MRO deals with the psychological background of process-related adjustments and technological options that promote constructive cooperation between humans and machines. Applications must be developed in close cooperation with users in order to enable people to participate in physical maintenance work in the best possible way in the future. We will explore these and other backgrounds with our guests.

Session 4: Agenda

"The importance of users in the design of future maintenance"
DLR MO - Thore Keser

Collaboration of Aviation Systems and AI
DLR ME - Carmen Bruder

"Integration and Acceptance of New Technologies"
MTU - Thomas Staak

Panel
Human Focused MRO
Session guests in conversation with the session chair Rahel Schmied-Kowarzik

Session 5: Sustainability
13.5.2025, 1:30 pm

Aviation faces numerous challenges on the path to greater sustainability. However, these challenges also bring exciting opportunities for businesses: sparking innovative ideas, visions, and possibilities. Many of these opportunities lie within the MRO sector, making it essential to explore sustainability both within and through MRO.

This session will therefore focus on strategies to enhance sustainability in maintenance, a critical factor influencing the operational phase. It will cover how to approach sustainability in both theory and practice while highlighting broader opportunities that go beyond just reducing CO2 emissions.

Session 5: Agenda


"Pitch: Life Cycle Assesment (LCA) in Aviation"
DLR MO - Joana Albano

"Sustainability in Component Maintenance"
Mara Lunemann Martinez

"Sustainability in Engine Maintenance"
DLR MO - Anne Oestreicher

“From Sustainability to Circularity”
DLR MO – Tim Hoff