GE Aerospace announces deal for AI-driven MRO

GE Aerospace and Waygate Technologies have signed “a joint technology development agreement to develop software and hardware inspection solutions for commercial aircraft engines”. The companies are to look at artificial intelligence (AI) “solutions”, as they say “current borescope inspection can be labo[u]r intensive, requiring highly skilled manual visual inspection to identify nonconforming indications from a host of potential unserviceable conditions or defects”. “AI and ML [machine learning] offer the ability to assist inspectors with repetitive, reliable information, improving cycle time and consistency of inspections,” according to the GE statement. GE said the deal will “advance and improve the efficiency, accuracy