MRO Embraces Artificial Intelligence, But Slowly

Joe Anselmo Lee Ann Shay September 17, 2025

Panelists at MRO Asia-Pacific discuss an audience-generated Word Cloud about challenges and concerns about using AI in MRO.

Credit: James Pozzi / Aviation Week Network

SINGAPORE—The incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) into MRO operations is underway, but adaption of the technology is in its early days, industry executives say—and aviation’s role as an industry where safety is paramount means maintenance shops will move forward cautiously. That was the...

Joe Anselmo

Joe Anselmo has been Editorial Director of the Aviation Week Network and Editor-in-Chief of Aviation Week & Space Technology since 2013. Based in Washington, D.C., he directs a team of more than two dozen aerospace journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Lee Ann Shay

As executive editor of MRO and business aviation, Lee Ann Shay directs Aviation Week's coverage of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), including Inside MRO, and business aviation, including BCA.

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