Teledyne Controls and GE Aviation sign agreement to enable more effective engine maintenance operation

Teledyne Controls, which provides wireless data acquisition and management technology, and GE Aviation have signed a strategic Digital Alliance partnership to transform engine health monitoring by using GE’s Predix platform to apply data and analytics on continuous flight data wirelessly collected by Teledyne’s technology. Willie Cecil, director of Business Development, Wireless and Data Automation Solutions at Teledyne Controls says predictive maintenance for aircraft is being taken to a completely different level for operators: “Until now, health monitoring has been limited because it has been performed using only a few hundred bytes of data sent from the aircraft via ACARS, which