Imagine every part had a voice.

That would make it a lot easier, wouldn't it?

Let's assume the following situation: An A320 is going through maintenance and one of your technicians checks which life jackets need replacing. There are 150 of these jackets in an A320, one underneath each seat. Normally, the employee would have to go to the effort of bending down and looking underneath each of the 150 seats to compare data. Now imagine what it would be like if that person could simply walk through the aircraft with an electronic reading device in his hand. At the press of a button, five of the 150 life jackets would signal: "Please replace me".

This may sound like a dream to an airline technician, but the RFID transponder we have developed makes this dream a reality. When this transponder is attached to a life jacket or any other component in an aircraft, it gives that part its own personal voice – a voice that communicates all the necessary information to your mechanic or logistics expert at the touch of a button. And our tag has been approved by the aviation authorities, so you can lend this voice to every component on any type of aircraft. That way, we can guarantee a high standard of quality and you can avoid extensive component testing. The example above illustrates how this transponder can simplify and speed up processes for MRO companies and airlines. But since faster information retrieval can lead to faster processes across the industry, our transponder – eleven millimeters small, 41 millimeters short , 5,2 millimeters thin and 3.2 grams light – has the potential to provide greater efficiency in every area of aviation. It can do this in a variety of different ways and with the certainty that it is resistant to all kinds of external factors, including fire, vibration, humidity, and large temperature and pressure variations.

Our special connection to manufacturers is now apparent on every component.

Airbus already insists on an RFID transponder as an indispensable part of many components in its A350XWB program. And over the coming years, this requirement will spread to other aircraft types. The design of the transponder ensures that it can be attached to your components as simply as possible, so that you will not have to worry about a large effort in changing processes. You can attach it to any kind of material and a wide variety of surface structures. Our close cooperation with your industry has enabled us to develop a transponder that shows, with every component that ‘wears' one, how easily logistics and technology can be combined.

Your components and parts need no additional approval by the aviation authorities after a transponder has been attached, since the transponder itself has been approved. You can purchase our transponder using aviation certificate EASA Form One.

As an aircraft manufacturer, you can now offer maximum convenience not only to passengers, but also to maintenance staff.

Your aircraft offer the highest level of innovation, a quality beyond compare and the greatest possible convenience – both for airlines and their customers. With our RFID tag, you can now also offer these unique advantage to everyone working on your aircraft. For these people, innovation, quality and convenience mean one thing: process optimization. And for you, our transponders offer nearly limitless options, so that they can be integrated into your production processes with great precision.

If mounted on metal, the transponders have a reach across the entire ultra-high frequency (UHF) range, up to one meter at 960 MHZ and three meters at 868 MHz, so that maintenance staff can use them whether they are located in Asia, Europe or America. This ensures better and faster data acquisition all over the world, making the work of maintenance staff easier and more accurate.
The transponder provides maximum transparency for component warehousing. You will be able to locate each component more quickly and make it available to the aircraft's production process more efficiently.

As an MRO company, you'll benefit from solutions that we initially developed for our own company.

We are from the same industry as our customers; we work hand in hand with our parent company Lufthansa Technik every day. That's why we developed our RFID transponder with a view to aviation's unique requirements: More efficient data acquisition and processing make for a faster supply chain. And together, these factors are the basis for optimal maintenance and overhaul processes. Just consider the following advantages for the MRO industry:

RFID transponders are not damaged as easily as the usual barcode labels or paper forms.
The tag is resistant to dirt, fire, temperatures between minus 65 and plus 160 degrees Celsius and even higher degrees for short term operations, and all the chemicals commonly used in the aviation industry. And those working in the MRO industry know that every material and every associated data carrier will come into contact with these things during repair.
The transponders have a storage capacity of up to 512 bits and therefore offer a much higher data volume than barcodes, for example.
This not only ensures that the information you incorporate in your processes can be acquired faster and more securely, but also that there's much more of it. And more information leads to more process transparency.

So light that not even the costs weigh in for airlines.

For logisticians, time and money are closely related. The same applies to airlines, yet they also have to consider the weight factor during every flight if they want to reduce their costs. Because we developed our transponder from our customers' point of view, even we – as logisticians – made sure to take the critical weight factor into consideration, so that you can attach it anywhere in your aircraft without having to worry about higher costs.

At only 3.2 grams, our transponder is a real featherweight. That's why it hardly has any effect at all on your fuel consumption. Just as a comparison: If you attach a transponder to 1,000 parts in your aircraft, you're carrying just 3.2 kg of additional weight – only as much as eight daily newspapers.
And you benefit from the same advantages as MRO companies and manufacturers, since better and faster information optimizes processes anywhere.