Towards MRO 4.0: Challenges for Digitalization and Mapping Emerging Technologies

With technological breakthroughs in electric land vehicles revolutionizing their respective industry, maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) facilities in aviation are also adopting digital technologies in their practices. But despite this drive towards digitalization, the industry is still dominated by manual labor and subjective assessments. Today, several technologies, processes, and practices are being championed to resolve some of these outstanding challenges. Considering this, it is important to present current perspectives regarding where the technology stands today and how one can evaluate capabilities for autonomous decision support systems that prescribe maintenance activities. Overlooking some of these unsettled domain issues can potentially undermine any benefits in speed, process, and resilience promised by such systems. Towards MRO 4.0: Challenges for Digitalization and Mapping Emerging Technologies provides some understanding of specific motivating factors by focusing on the digitalization challenges for MRO 4.0 and the role of building “trust” in technology by reimagining stakeholder experiences. It examines overarching issues, such as data management, robotics, optimization, artificial intelligence, and systems engineering.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.4271/EPR2023007
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of SAE International.
• Authors:
  • Khan, Samir
• Publication Date: 2023-4-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: EPR2023007
• Serial:
  • SAE EDGE™ Research Reports
  • Publisher: SAE International
  • Serial URL: https://www.sae.org/publications/edge-research-reports

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision support systems; Digitization; Electric vehicles; Rehabilitation; Repairing; Vehicle maintenance
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Energy; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01883169
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: SAE International
• Report/Paper Numbers: EPR2023007
• Files: TRIS, SAE
• Created Date: May 23 2023 10:12AM