Bombardier, Pratt & Whitney partner on CSeries data technology
by Canadian Manufacturing.com Staff
The technology will be part of a system that transmits real-time and recorded data from the aircraft
Bombardier’s CSeries commercial jet is expected to compete with some of the smaller planes made by Boeing and Airbus. PHOTO Bombardier
The technology will be part of the overall Bombardier Aircraft Health Management System (AHMS) capable of transmitting real-time and recorded data from the aircraft.
The AHMS will facilitate remote troubleshooting and deliver efficient and accurate diagnostics for use by maintenance and flight crews.
Under this agreement, Pratt & Whitney’s eFAST system will be the infrastructure unit used to perform data transmissions from the CSeries aircraft’s on-board Health Management Unit (HMU) to the ground. Along with Bombardier, they will make up the data acquisition structure which will automatically download, process and store data that will be available for upload to respective customer portals.
No financial details were released
Pratt & Whitney is also the supplier for the CSeries aircraft’s PurePower Geared Turbofan engines.
