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VEM Delivers Last MD-11 to Boeing Capital Corporation
(Rio de Janeiro, October 18, 2007) -- VEM increasingly shows that its strategy is truly focused on customer satisfaction. In a unique and innovative situation, VEM sent a team of 46 specialized mechanics and engineers to do "on site" maintenance for the last MD-11 to be returned to Boeing Capital Corporation, which was carried off with great success. The Delivery Ceremony will be held today, at the company's facilities in Rio de Janeiro.
The MD-11 PP-VQG aircraft, which was the last widebody stopped in Brasilia for a year, awaiting the maintenance needed for it to be returned to BCC. The overhaul was a large revision, outside of a specific hangar, and even involved changing the airplane's three engines. The services included large-scale structural repairs in a synergy with the Boeing AOG Team, where the entire "belly" had to be cut, in order to install new structural elements and new doors for the main landing gear and for accessing the rear hold. At the same time that the maintenance was underway on the aircraft, several other mechanical and electronic components were overhauled in the shops of Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre.
Doing heavy overhaul work outside of a hangar is no easy task, since the infrastructure set up on the site never compares to that of a maintenance center. The team from VEM very competently took on the adverse circumstances inherent to this lack of structure, adapting processes and even building tools. The base already was used by VEM to perform line maintenance for several customers, so it was possible to take advantage of some of the existing structure, but, even at that, large equipment pieces and platforms had to be rented, as well as enormous tents, so that the work could be done within proper safety standards.
The Brasilia phase was completed on October 5,, when the aircraft was flown to Rio de Janeiro and the first test flight was held, with excellent performance levels. The aircraft stayed at the Maintenance Center in Rio de Janeiro for 15 days, just for painting the new number - N725BC, handling documentation, and preparing for the transatlantic flight. Today, the airplane is heading for Italy, where it will be transformed into a cargo plane and will fly for Russia's Aeroflot.
"This team worked in a unique regime on this Project. There were some moments for overcoming difficulties, where each one had to extremely use its knowledge and abilities to face the unexpected problems that arose and resolve them competently, without pressure. We are proud to know that we can count on the maximum effort of VEM's entire group of employees, well represented by this group in special," commented the company's Vice President of Operations, Alexandre Fleischhauer, who also was in Brasilia, accompanying the phases of the Project.
Source : VEM Maintenance and Engineering
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