GE and COMAC sign digital collaboration MOU

GE Aviation and COMAC have signed an MOU on digital collaboration. This agreement brings the cooperation between COMAC and GE to a new level from the aircraft engines and systems to now broadening their relationship to the use data and analytics to bring greater operational efficiency to their operations. Under the agreement, COMAC and GE plan to jointly explore and collaborate on digital solutions and applications on customer and product support monitoring and diagnostics, intelligent aircraft and brilliant manufacturing. The two companies will set up a joint team to launch pilot projects based on an earlier outcome based workshop and exchanges to verify the technical trends for further collaboration. Through the partnership, data scientists, software developers and architects from GE and COMAC plan to work together to refine some of the ten billion data points produced by the aviation sector annually into solutions that can achieve greater fleet intelligence and operational insights.