The aerospace industry deals with antiquated processes for collecting aircraft maintenance records. Today, maintenance records are done in paper. Typically there is the discrepancy, corrective action, and a signature and date from the repair technician. There is myriad of information lost like all the steps, processes, and timing of the repair. Not having that data in a form that can be manipulated to create knowledge and wisdom is not advantageous to the aircraft operators. BRG and ERAU propose to migrate aircraft maintenance records to a blockchain based process that will allow for an immutable and transparent record and will afford the opportunity to collect and aggregate meta data. That data will allow for predictive maintenance and will further inform the part/aircraft manufacturer.
