Russia's S7 Technics in combination with global airline association IATA (International Air Transport Association) have jointly held a Digital Aircraft Operations 2019 seminar focusing on the critical subject of disposing of the burden of the industry’s paper mountain through the digitalisation of air transport management processes.
The migration of aircraft operations and maintenance standards from paper to the use of the latest digital technology tools has become a big focus of attention for today’s air transport specialists, especially as their industry is facing many significant changes.
Leading airlines, lessors, MRO service providers, as well as aircraft manufacturers are all in the process of digitalising their business processes – and the subject stretches far and wide to include a range of changes relating to automated fleet management systems, operational analysis and the improvement of aircraft reliability.
The two-day Moscow seminar was patronised by more than 30 key representatives of Russian aviation authorities, as well as executives from the Irkut Corporation, Russian and CIS airlines and S7 Group.
Maxim Pivovar, IT director at S7 Technics, commented: “One of the main goals of the Digital Aircraft Operations 2019 seminar was attracting the attention of the Russian aviation authorities – and airlines from Russia and the CIS – to the importance of digitalisation. S7 Technics is actively digitalising its production processes and, for example, we are now introducing electronic digital signatures, a mobile package of the AMOS information system.
“We consider it important that the benefits of digitalisation should be of interest to all market players and its regulators. This is also a matter of the global competitiveness of the Russian air transport industry in general and the domestic aircraft maintenance industry in particular."