OEMServices SAS (formerly ''SAVE GIE''), or OEMS for short, is a French company involved in the maintenance, repair, overhaul, logistics and customer support of commercial aircraft. It is a

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between aerospace giants

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, Diehl and

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, acting as their AOG and MRO subsidiary for Aircraft Component Maintenance and spillover support. It is the world's leader in terms of market share of the

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as well as the

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. Indeed, OEMServices supports many

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s and

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around the world, always emphasizing its trademark of “Fly with the Original". The company was established in 2009 with

Zodiac Aerospace Zodiac Aerospace was a French aerospace group founded in 1896 that supplied systems and equipment for aircraft. It had around 100 sites across the globe and employed nearly 35,000 people. In October 2018, it was acquired by French aerospace an ...

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and

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each owning 25%. Zodiac Aerospace was purchased outright by Safran in 2018. The purchase of

by the

Safran Group Safran S.A. is a French multinational company that designs, develops and manufactures aircraft engines, rocket engines as well as various aerospace and defense-related equipment or their components. It was formed by a merger between SNECMA and ...

made OEMServices part of the new ''Safran'' conglomerate. __TOC__

Services and clients

OEMServices, being the Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul front office for its 4 Parent Companies, is considered a services provider. Its primary service is concentrated in the

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, AOG Desk Support Reliability & Performance Monitoring, as well as the Inventory & Pool Access sub-categories of the aviation industry. As a direct competitor of Lufthansa's MRO Subsidiary,

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, Airbus FHS, and

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's Engineering & MRO branch, OEMServices offers airlines maintenance on ''Repair-by-the-Hour'', Time & Material and Flat Rate basis. It has exclusive contracts with both

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s and

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s. Some of OEMServices' fleets on an exclusive basis include: *

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* Asiana *

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Apart from having contracts with different airlines for the subcontracting of their component maintenance support, OEMServices also provides maintenance under general terms & conditions. Since 2020, OEMServices also provides a tax representation offer to various international

, supporting them in their expansion into France and Europe. As of 2021, OEMServices has an ongoing development of its

predictive maintenance Predictive maintenance techniques are designed to help determine the condition of in-service equipment in order to estimate when maintenance should be performed. This approach promises cost savings over routine or time-based preventive maintenanc ...

capabilities.

Location

OEMServices is as of 2022 capable of providing worldwide services. While growing in France, transferring its operations from

Orly Airport Paris Orly Airport (french: Aéroport de Paris-Orly), commonly referred to as Orly , is one of two international airports serving the French capital, Paris, the other one being Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG). It is located partially in Orly an ...

to Roissy CDG, OEMServices has also established subsidiairies overseas, having set up capabilities in

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...

( GA) in 2017, in

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in 2019 and an office in

Dubai Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of ...

via its parent company

. As of 2021, OEMServices has set up capabilities in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

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Media appearance

In 2019, OEMServices was awarded at the Trophées PME RMC, 10th edition, a recognized French prize honoring the ambition and innovation of its business.

References

External links

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