Aviation’s maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) sector has witnessed an incremental and sometimes tentative adoption of technological innovation over the years. Now, advances such as artificial intelligence (AI) present an opportunity to accelerate the industry’s development from a “paper-based” enterprise to one committed to digital transformation, according to General Aviation Manufacturers Association director of airworthiness and regulatory affairs Joe Sambiase.
“AI in my opinion actually represents a pretty significant opportunity for safety improvements,” Sambiase told AIN in a pre-Farnborough Airshow interview. “If you think about the different buckets of safety improvements we've had over the last hundred years, we continue to evolve each one of those, whether it be technology or training or reliability. So we keep adding to those, but every once in a while some new opportunity comes up. And I think AI is one of those.”
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