OREANDA-NEWS. September 09, 2016. Eric Schulz, Rolls-Royce, President - Civil Aerospace, has met with senior executives from ANA in Tokyo to update them on the joint work being carried out by both companies to address issues with the Trent 1000 engine that powers the airline’s Boeing 787 fleet and get the aircraft back into service as quickly as possible. The Boeing 787 is very important to ANA’s operations and is an excellent fit across its domestic and international network.

Eric Schulz said: “The disruption caused to ANA and its passengers is of great concern for all of us at Rolls-Royce. We are all working closely together to return the situation to normal as quickly as possible. The situation is being closely monitored at the highest levels within Rolls-Royce.”

This disruption has been caused by the Trent 1000 intermediate pressure turbine blade failing to meet its expected lifespan. In the short term, the action plan involves the replacement of blades with the existing design, and the engines returned to service. Blades with an improved design will be introduced at the beginning of next year.

About Rolls-Royce Holdings plc

  1. Rolls-Royce’s vision is to be the market-leader in high performance power systems where our engineering expertise, global reach and deep industry knowledge deliver outstanding customer relationships and solutions. We operate across five businesses: Civil Aerospace, Defence Aerospace, Marine, Nuclear and Power Systems.
  2. Rolls-Royce has customers in more than 120 countries, comprising more than 400 airlines and leasing customers, 160 armed forces, 4,000 marine customers including 70 navies, and more than 5,000 power and nuclear customers.
  3. We have three common themes across all our businesses:
  • Investing in and developing engineering excellence
  • Driving a manufacturing and supply chain transformation which will embed operational excellence in lean, lower-cost facilities and processes
  • Leveraging our installed base, product knowledge and engineering capabilities to provide customers with outstanding service through which we can capture aftermarket value long into the future.
  • Annual underlying revenue was ?13.4 billion in 2015, around half of which came from the provision of aftermarket services. The firm and announced order book stood at ?76.4 billion at the end of 2015.
  • In 2015, Rolls-Royce invested ?1.2 billion on research and development. We also support a global network of 31 University Technology Centres, which position Rolls-Royce engineers at the forefront of scientific research.
  • Rolls-Royce employs over 50,000 people in more than 46 countries. Nearly 15,700 of these are engineers.
  • The Group has a strong commitment to apprentice and graduate recruitment and to further developing employee skills. In 2015 we employed 228 graduates and 277 apprentices through our worldwide training programmes.