Matterport, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTTR), the leading spatial data company
driving the digital transformation of the built world, today
announced that KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (“KLM”), part of the Air
France-KLM Group and a member of the SkyTeam airline alliance
with services across 90 European cities and 70 intercontinental
destinations, has adopted Matterport to create a digital twin of
each type of aircraft in the fleet. KLM is using Matterport to
train ground crews and to provide an immersive virtual experience
for customers. The global air carrier has received nearly 1 million
views of its digital twins from ground crews, flight attendants,
pilots, and travelers.
“Matterport digital twins have permanently changed the way we
train our employees and we have expanded our use of them over time
for customer engagement,” said Chris Koomen, Virtual Reality
Specialist at KLM. “Digital twins are now integral to our business.
We regularly use them for training across our global operations.
Cleaning crews work more efficiently, flight attendants learn the
layout of an aircraft ahead of time, and pilots reference digital
twins during safety checks. With remote access to digital twins,
trainees avoid disrupting the maintenance work of an aircraft,
enabling our fleet to return to service faster. All of this
adds up to performance efficiency.”
KLM began using Matterport in 2017, capturing the first digital
twin of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner to train ground crews on cleaning
the aircraft. When crews reduced cleaning time by 30 percent, KLM
recognized the potential of Matterport digital twins to streamline
training for other departments and utilized Matterport to further
capture digital twins of its entire fleet. Today, KLM manages a
library of 104 digital twins that have been viewed nearly 1 million
times, including multiple versions for each of the 14 types of
Boeing, Airbus, and Embraer aircrafts that make up its fleet.
Flight attendants utilized Matterport’s digital twins to learn
where important safety and hospitality items are located such as
beverage carts, while an annotated digital twin for ground crews
illustrates where service trolleys are stowed. Meanwhile, pilots
easily refer to an aircraft’s digital twin during a pre-flight
safety check if an issue is detected.
Equipped with Matterport digital twins, KLM employees do not
need to travel to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol for training and
instead use immersive digital twins. Since virtual trainees no
longer interrupt the maintenance work of an aircraft with in-person
visits. It helps to get the aircraft to return to service faster
and with less downtime. In addition, KLM’s digital twins have
helped streamline its fleet management. For example, when upgrading
the Wi-Fi routers used on a specific aircraft, KLM used the highly
accurate data within a digital twin to confirm measurements and
optimize the placement of new routers.
Beyond training its internal teams, KLM uses digital twins to
showcase its aircraft cabins to travelers. Passengers can virtually
experience a cabin, compare sections, and view their ideal seat
before purchasing. KLM’s Boeing Dreamliner digital twin, which has
garnered more than 70,000 views to date, highlights the individual
privacy partitions and top-tier entertainment systems available to
business class travelers.
“As the transportation industry reinvents itself to drive growth
and operating efficiencies, airlines like KLM have demonstrated the
value of accelerating digital strategies to provide a better
experience for customers and within their organizations,” said Bill
Linehan, Head of Global Strategy for Travel & Hospitality at
Matterport. “By using Matterport across its entire fleet of
aircraft, KLM has created leading, visually rich, immersive
training programs, best-in-class maintenance processes, and an
engaging customer experience. We look forward to continuing to help
KLM to improve its operations with Matterport-enabled
solutions.”
Learn more about Matterport for the travel and hospitality
industry at https://matterport.com/travel-hospitality.
About MatterportMatterport, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTTR)
is leading the digital transformation of the built world. Our
groundbreaking spatial data platform turns buildings into data to
make nearly every space more valuable and accessible. Millions of
buildings in more than 177 countries have been transformed into
immersive Matterport digital twins to improve every part of the
building lifecycle from planning, construction, and operations to
documentation, appraisal and marketing. Learn more at
Matterport.com and visit our Discover page to browse a collection
of digital twins captured by our customers.
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