Data uniformity

Another major hurdle that will need to be addressed as MRO moves into a purely digital format, is the issue of how data should be stored. There will always be regulatory pressure to provide accurate documentation and records, but for full digital MRO to function optimally, there will also have to be some kind of industry-wide standardisation of data keeping.

There will always be human error, but compared to today's current state of affairs, where paperwork trails can be lost forever, a digital MRO–where data can still be lost, but is also recoverable–will at least allow for more significant margins of error.

Embracing the future, sooner than later.

Inevitably, aviation MRO will eventually evolve into a purely digital data keeping system; the question is whether it will be a proactive or reactive transition. Yes, if we wait long enough, then the paper trails and storage vaults of hard disks will disappear as the aircraft and fleets they reference are eventually retired.

But if we want to get there faster, we will need to work towards a consensus of data management, combined with industry-wide practices of digitising paperwork documentation and the transference of electronic data from disks to the cloud.

MRO is destined to become purely digital, as all things inevitably will be, but what we need to ask ourselves is whether we just want to simply wait for it to catch up with the rest of the industry.

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