The future of aircraft maintenance is technology
The second day of the ALTA CCMA & MRO Conference began with a forward-looking panel of one of the most important aviation sectors: aircraft maintenance. For the invited experts, the most relevant issue is to reinvent oneself in a scenario profoundly transformed by the pandemic and the new forms of work.
May 17, 2022
Cartagena, May 17, 2022 – The second day of the ALTA CCMA & MRO Conference began with a forward-looking panel of one of the most important aviation sectors: aircraft maintenance. For the invited experts, the most relevant issue is to reinvent oneself in a scenario profoundly transformed by the pandemic and the new forms of work.
Moderated by Allan Bachan, vice president of ICF, the panel was composed of Jorge Jácome, senior vice president of maintenance and engineering at Aeromexico, Albert Perez, senior vice president of maintenance at Avianca, Marcel Uttembergue, vice presidentPresident of Customer Service at Rolls-Royce and Frank Stevens, Vice President of the Global MRO Center at Embraer Services & Support.
In the words of experts, the synergy to facilitate work through technology has been the strategy for the future. “We are focused on bringing Avianca to a fully digitized environment,” says Albert Peres, Avianca’s maintenance SVP. Peres also stressed the importance of regulators understanding the digital transformation through which the sector is going, so that standards are aligned with the new reality, such as remote work. According to panelists, technology can also make the aviation environment even safer.
The discussions on the harmonization of rules and the adoption of digital transformation in the MRO is a theme very present in the work of the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA), through its Technical Maintenance Committee and MRO. Founded more than 30 years ago, this committee is the primary group of working groups of ALTA, and its mission is to facilitate and foster cooperation, the exchange of information and experience and the implementation of joint actions between ALTA member airlines for the continuous improvement of aircraft maintenance.