Maintenance to the power of three for Air France Industries

Since 2022, Actemium Maintenance Paris has been providing maintenance for critical equipment in the Paris‑Charles de Galle and Paris‑Orly airports. This preventive, corrective and regulatory maintenance in a future-oriented partnership keeps the fleets airworthy, ensures regulatory compliance and safeguards Air France’s operational performance.

Since 2022, and continuing for five years, the VINCI Energies business unit Actemium Maintenance Paris has been providing comprehensive maintenance of critical industrial resources for Air France Industries (AFI), part of Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance, the industrial division of Air France-KLM Group. Its mission is to keep fleets airworthy, ensure strict adherence to regulatory requirements, and contribute to flight safety.

Over 5,000 pieces of equipment

On the Paris‑Charles de Gaulle Airport and Paris‑Orly Airport sites, teams from Actemium Maintenance Paris maintain more than 5,000 pieces of equipment in operational condition. This includes access equipment (platforms used to bring technicians closer to appliances), lifting systems, test benches (jet engines and other test devices), painting booths, surface-treatment installations and various machine tools.

Every day, the teams are hard at work carrying out this mission. “Equipment uptime is vital: an aircraft standing idle in a hangar for technical reasons has a considerable impact on an airline’s business,” says Johana Djebara, Business Unit General Manager at Actemium Maintenance Paris. “This is why highly qualified, autonomous teams capable of operating effectively on such extensive sites are so important.”

Maintenance to the power of three

In addition to preventive and corrective maintenance, the business unit also provides regulatory maintenance. “This essential component is about supporting inspection agencies to ensure that every piece of equipment is compliant with current standards,” explains Johana Djebara.

To meet these stringent requirements, a daily catch-up meeting with the customer every morning identifies priorities and emergencies. An additional monthly meeting is held with each production workshop to ensure that the focus is firmly on operational needs.

“A true working partnership that goes far beyond a simple customer-supplier relationship”

Actemium Maintenance Paris has another advantage in the form of its digitalisation policy. Technicians have access to a list of maintenance tasks via tablets, which automatically generate task reports. Contract management is also entirely digital, from spare-part tracking to HR processes. This organisational structure enhances traceability, responsiveness and the system’s overall performance.

For Air France Industries, this partnership brings numerous tangible benefits: a single point of contact rather than the two providers it had previously; standardised methodology across the two sites with sharing of best practice; support from Actemium’s engineering teams on improvement actions (technical, safety, CSR); and optimised management of spare-part stocks.

Continuous improvement

As part of this approach based on continuous improvement, Actemium Maintenance Paris proposed and implemented various targeted technical solutions to enhance the reliability of critical equipment.

“On the engine test benches, two hoists have been fitted with position encoders to place the engine at a precise height during dynamic testing,” says Johana Djebara. This instrumentation allows more precise placement, reduces the risk of human error and enhances safety in lifting operations, while reducing the need for retesting and manual adjustments.

Additionally, a cooling system has been installed in an electrical cabinet housing an industrial robot exposed to extreme thermal stresses. “This enhancement keeps the equipment within its nominal operating range, significantly reducing temperature-related unplanned stoppages and prolonging the life of electronic components, all of which makes the engine testing safer,” explains the Actemium Maintenance Paris manager.

After four years’ collaboration, Johana Djebara emphasises “the true working partnership with Air France Industries, which goes far beyond a simple customer-supplier relationship”. As they work each day to ensure the availability of industrial equipment, the Actemium teams are contributing directly to AFI’s operational performance and the continuity of its aviation operations.

07/13/2026