By Mike Boyer
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Shannon Engine Support, the engine leasing unit of CFM International, has signed a 10-year deal to provide spare CFM56-5B engines to TAP Air Portugal.
CFMI is the joint venture of GE Aircraft Engines and Snecma Moteurs of France.
The engine spares lease agreement for TAP's fleet of 27 Airbus A320 jetliners is just the latest in a string of recent deals for Shannon.
They include a three-year deal with Hola Airlines for CFM56-3 engine; a five-year agreement with Spanish carrier, LTE , for CFM56-3B engines; and a five-year agreement with Air Seychelles for CFM56-7B power plants.
With the slump in commercial aviation, GEAE is putting more emphasis on increasing its engine services to maintain earnings.
Shannon, the third-largest spare engine leasing company, has more than 50 customers worldwide, CFMI says.
Lean lessons win second major award
TechSolve's Lean-Pathways program, a process for implementing lean techniques among supplier networks, has won its second major award for its work with Boeing Co.'s SLAM-ER missile supplier development team.
This week, the program, led by Susan Moehring, received the Defense Manufacturing Excellence Award in the large company-team category from the National Center for Advanced Technologies.
Last month, it received a similar award from the Excellence in Missouri Foundation.
Using the Pathways approach, a team of Boeing suppliers worked for 15 months to improve support to Boeing's Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER) missile program and in their own operations.
Boeing is the prime contractor on a Navy program to convert its missiles into the expanded capability version.
TranscenData to supply CD-adapco
ITI TranscenData, a unit of Milford's International TechneGroup Inc., has agreed to supply its CADfix software as part of CD-adapco Japan's Pro-Modeler product starting next year.
CADfix is an interoperability product which allows companies to exchange, reuse and share engineering product data among different software applications.
In addition, ITI said CD-adapco will act as a reseller for CADfix.
GE delivers first of new F-16 engines
GE Aircraft Engines has delivered the first F110-GE-132 engine, the highest thrust fighter engine for the F-16, to Lockheed Martin Corp.
The engine, capable of 32,500 pounds of thrust, was launched two years ago with its selection by the United Arab Emirates Air Force for 80 F-16C/D Block 60 aircraft.
Lockheed will begin flight tests with a F-16 test bed early next year at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Update offered on spill prevention rules
Information on new spill prevention control rules for manufacturers will be presented at Tuesday's meeting of TechSolve's environmental collaborative.
The free 2 p.m. meeting at TechSolve's Bond Hill center will include representatives of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency who will discuss requirements for storing, handling and disposing of infectious wastes.
For more information, call Rene Wall at 948-2076 or e-mail rwall@techsolve.org.
Session first step to minority certification
A free session on minority business certification will occur Dec. 13 at the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.
The meeting from 10 a.m. to noon is a required first step in obtaining minority business enterprise certification from the Kentuckiana Minority Supplier Development Council.
For more information, call the council at (859)-578-8800.
E-mail mboyer@enquirer.com.
