United StatesManufacturing2022 – ongoingGE Aerospace
AI-guided turbine-blade inspection
GE Aerospace reported halved blade-inspection times and began extending its AI tool to narrowbody engines
Problem
Engine maintenance teams needed consistent turbine-blade inspections while returning engines to service promptly. Standard borescope inspections required technicians to review imagery for defects.
Approach
Technicians captured blade images with GE Aerospace's AI-enabled Blade Inspection Tool. AI guided their selection of images for review. Following around 3 years of use on GEnx engines, GE Aerospace began distributing the tool to facilities and customers servicing LEAP engines.
Results
Takeaway
The tool changed which images technicians reviewed while leaving inspection work under human oversight.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Computer vision
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
GE Aerospace announced expansion of its AI blade-inspection tool to narrowbody-engine service operations. It said the existing GEnx deployment had halved inspection time while improving inspection accuracy.
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