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SPECIAL FEATURE MRO TRENDS
Emerging Trends in MRO
MRO providers worldwide are finding themselves under increasing pressure,
reports AAA Bureau
ASIA’S bOOmInG AVIATIOn mARkET Director, Aerospace & Defence Practice,
has created valuable opportunities for the Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific.
Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) “The two key trends we see are the
market, with more aircraft requiring adoption of new business models by
maintenance services. legacy MROs and OEMs taking on an
MRO has now evolved to become a major integrator’s role to provide the after-sales
market within aviation, given the increasing services. These changes can be attributed
numbers of aircraft in service and safety to increasing OEM involvement and
concerns. However, this has also led to changing technologies,” Das says.
greater challenges, especially in the area of The worldwide commercial aviation
By 2024 the 737 NG/MAX supply chain and inventory management. fleet is expected to experience steady
family is expected to far
outpace the MRO spend of “To resolve this, SAP companies will growth at 4.5% CAGR over the next ten
even the next largest fleet, need to develop specific modules for MRO years with the fleet exceeding 27,450
the A320 family operations. This follows the development active aircraft by 2017.
of the major trends in the MRO market, With major aircraft manufacturers
Photos courtesy of Ameco according to Subhranshu Sekhar Das, sharing a backlog of over 10,000 aircraft,
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