The International Air Transport Association (IATA) will organize the World Maintenance and Engineering Symposium in Madrid on June 24 and 25, an event where supply chain problems and other challenges linked to maintenance in the aviation sector will be analyzed.
Among the participants are speakers such as the Director General of IATA, Willie Walsh; the Head of Engineering and Maintenance at Airbus, Andre Schneider; and the Director of Service Engineering and Systems at Boeing, Aman Sandhu.
For Walsh, this meeting represents "an opportunity" for the industry to explore and jointly implement practical solutions to recover reliability and strengthen resilience.
"Supply chain instability, bottlenecks in engine maintenance, and aircraft delivery delays are undermining efficiency and increasing costs," he denounced about the current context.
The symposium will be structured around two main thematic axes, focused on offering responses in the most sensitive areas of the aerospace supply chain. On the one hand, delays in the delivery of aircraft and engines, component availability, maintenance task planning, and cost management will be addressed.
On the other hand, initiatives to optimize performance, reliability, and cost control in maintenance operations will be debated, with special attention to the use of artificial intelligence, maintenance information systems, eTechLog, digital records, and predictive maintenance.