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Thorben Burghardt

VP Gate Services & Asset Management
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September 7, 2021

Operational elasticity at the apron is critical to airport and airline recovery. Read the white paper to learn more.

WHITE PAPER. Post pandemic airport recovery depends on how airports and airlines can tackle volatility in an affordable way, without sacrificing safety and efficiency. In a white paper titled The Elastic Apron, which ADB SAFEGATE’s Thorben Burghardt recently co-authored with Michael McElvaney from Jacobs, we explore the concept of operational elasticity and how it can aid airport recovery.

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June 28, 2021

New concept presented at the ADB SAFEGATE UK & Ireland Aviation Summit: Elasticity – The New Operational Imperative

ADB SAFEGATE Elasticity Presentation Thorben Butghardt

EVENT. The annual ADB SAFEGATE UK & Ireland Aviation Summit took place virtually this year on June 9, 2021. Under the theme “Transformation: Let’s Make It Work”, the Summit looked at how the aviation industry can meet current and upcoming challenges with new solutions and innovative approaches. Here we share one of the video recorded presentations from the Summit that introduces the new concept of operational elasticity.

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January 17, 2021

All about data

As part of a special report on information technology, Airport World, the official magazine of the Airports Council International (ACI), published an article written by ADB SAFEGATE’s Thorben Burghardt on closing the data gaps to automate airport operations. The article looks at how data has become the new integration layer for applications of multiple vendors.

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November 3, 2020

Airport GATE Solutions Transformation from “as a Product” to “as a Service”

Gate from Product to as a service

APRON and GATE related applications, products – or in combination solutions – have conventionally been installed in relatively encapsulated environments. The solution got defined, often tailored for a specific airport under the “we are different” paradigm, installed and … frozen. Sticking to the encapsulated system environment, this has not necessarily been a “worst choice”-scenario. Many solutions are running this way for more than 15 years, a long time out of the books but still providing 100% performance.

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October 27, 2020

ADB SAFEGATE is partnering with WheelTug plc to bring cutting edge innovations to the apron.

 Digitizing the apron is one of the key challenges in the transformation of airport operations. ADB SAFEGATE’s Gate Team is partnering with several stakeholders orchestrating an end-to-end solution, driving the holistic apron view. The latest research and innovation outcome of such a partnership has been recently published by ‘Aircraft Commerce’ in the article ‘WheelTug self-taxi system prepares for 2021service entry.

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June 9, 2020

ADB SAFEGATE continues digital transformation of airport services in Greece

ALIS

The ADB SAFEGATE solution ALIS guides you through the digital transformation process for all airfield relevant maintenance and asset management activities. It starts with simplifying the creation of your installed base information. ALIS helps optimizing your maintenance schedules, it keeps records of the asset status for the maintenance provider, it helps monitoring the progress of sub contractors involved, and of course documents and reports the activities for the end user.

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