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As If Your Life Depends On It: Testing Airplane Engines

2023-07-14

On a train, engine failure is inconvenient. Up in an airplane-

[When you test and overhaul airplane engines, you have to be right out on the edge of what you can achieve," says Kim Brinkmann Andersen, TPE Engine Technician at DAO Aviation in Denmark. [These are top-quality products from the leaders in the turboprop industry, and we have to do them justice. And we never forget our responsibility to aircrew and passengers."

Low position service platform

High position service platform

The rapid progress of digitalization and remote monitoring gives technicians rapid access to engine test data from the jet engine test cell. [Not like the old days, when they could do little more than watch through a window," comments Kim. [Our hands-on work has also come a long way since then."

Ergonomics: vital part of safety chain
The engine under test is mounted on an immobile framework for stability and good access. But these are big machines, which presents a challenge. [It is important to be able to adopt an ergonomic stance when working on any part of the engine," Kim points out. [A fatigued or uncomfortable technician is a weak link in the chain between personal health & safety and a reliable engine. Good ergonomics speed up the work, too."

Lift platforms are the ideal solution
The old ladders are long gone. DAO now uses lift platforms from VPG. VPG are a very good match for DAO, with both companies having safety locked into their DNA.

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