One year ago, we learned a rogue company fraudulently sold jet engine parts into the aviation supply chain with falsified documentation. I was proud of our team’s quick action to work with partners across the airline industry to track down jet engines suspected of containing unapproved parts. While this issue impacted less than one percent of our engines worldwide, this quick response demonstrated our commitment to safety.
But our efforts did not stop there. We wanted to make sure that all of us in the industry could improve safety by learning from this incident. Working with many of our partners and customers, we formed a coalition to identify actionable steps companies can take to help prevent future bad actors from impacting the supply chain again. Today, the Aviation Supply Chain Integrity Coalition released its report with three categories of recommended actions the industry can take to help strengthen the supply chain and guard against the infiltration of unapproved parts: Strengthening Vendor Accreditation, Digitizing Documents and Signatures, and Improving Part Traceability.
Many of the companies involved already are implementing some of the recommendations. GE Aerospace has digitized 18 million Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) records, and today when an engine has maintenance performed at a GE Aerospace MRO shop, key paperwork is digitized. AI verifies the validity of data fields, flagging discrepancies. Later this year, we will pilot digital signatures.
I’m especially grateful to Robert L. Sumwalt and John D. Porcari for leading the work during the last nine months. The coalition benefited greatly from the time and insights of other coalition members Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Delta Air Lines, Safran, StandardAero, and United Airlines. Their dedication has been invaluable.
Read the Full Report: https://lnkd.in/ezMVhADP
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