New artificial intelligence plugin integrates spare parts search with Outlook

2020-09-09 / 2 min

Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently Locatory.com has launched Amber A.I., an artificial intelligence spare parts procurement assistant, capable of recognizing aircraft part numbers, conditions and quantities from any email. Today the company has presented a new plugin to complement the virtual tool. By integrating Amber’s capabilities directly into an email client, it enables procurement managers to reach suppliers straight

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New artificial intelligence tool uses e-mail to speed info on parts availability

2020-09-09 / 3 min

Reading Time: 3 minutes Sometimes being an outsider can prove beneficial. You get to look at something with a fresh perspective and discriminate between the positives and negatives as you learn the details. Locatory.com, part of the Avia Solutions Group in Lithuania, is not an outsider looking in, but it is a young company that looked at parts procurement

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Surplus parts: MROs’ knight’s move in the aftermarket battle?

2020-09-09 / 3 min

Reading Time: 3 minutes Many OEMs have been forced to reduce their forecast for new spare parts sales at least once or twice during the last year due to lower than expected shop visits. In 2014, as the period of airlines destocking spares and differing maintenance services has been gradually drawing to a close, the demand for spares and

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Fraud in aviation supply chain: a struggle for transparency

2020-09-09 / 3 min

Reading Time: 3 minutes There is no secret that for quite some time now fraud-related losses have been an increasing industry-wide problem in aviation. However, due to numerous reasons the issue has been largely swept under the carpet. Only recently the industry players have started publicly addressing the problem which costs airlines as much as approx. $1.4 billion per

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Locatory.com revolutionizes aircraft spare parts search with Artificial Intelligence

2020-09-09 / 3 min

Reading Time: 3 minutes While the immense importance of spare parts to the aviation industry suggests that this MRO segment should be one of the most advanced, some of the processes related to the procurement of aircraft spares and components are still largely underdeveloped and conducted manually. However, Locatory.com is here to change all that. Meet Amber A.I., a

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Mobile should become the new normal in aviation aftermarket

2020-09-09 / 3 min

Reading Time: 3 minutes Each year the aviation industry spends a whopping amount of money on MRO, second only to that spent on fuel. It is a $68 billion industry, which, according to TeamSAI, is going to reach $86.8b in ten years’ time. Therefore, making investments in technology that enables higher automation of maintenance, repair and overhaul processes would

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