PAM APAC 2026 has concluded in Singapore on September 22 following discussions on the strategies and technologies reshaping aircraft maintenance and airline operations.
The second and final day at Marina Bay Sands continued the event's emphasis on moving predictive maintenance beyond alerts and analytics towards practical decision-making across engineering, maintenance and asset management.
Conference chairman Richard Brown, managing director of NAVEO Consultancy, welcomed delegates back for a programme spanning digital twins, aircraft lifecycle management, paperless MRO, AI, predictive maintenance execution and next-generation aircraft data infrastructure.
The morning opened with Anthony Mannion of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Aviation Services Research Centre exploring the potential to combine digital twins, hyperspectral drone inspections and AI forecasting within predictive maintenance.
Attention then moved beyond the day-to-day maintenance of individual aircraft to the wider commercial implications of better data.
The ‘Asset Intelligence - Smarter Decisions Across the Aircraft Lifecycle’ panel moderated by Brown, brought together Tony Ramage of EirTrade Aviation, Mangalam Pandey of Air India and Hardi Jamil of APOC Aviation.
The discussion considered how maintenance, utilisation and reliability data can inform decisions throughout an aircraft's life - including maintenance investment, lease transitions, component strategy, teardown timing and residual value - and the potential benefits of better data sharing between airlines, owners, lessors and asset managers.
An airline perspective followed as Julien Ardourel, fleet programs manager at Jetstar, joined MRO Management editor Craig Waters for a fireside chat. The one-to-one interview provided an opportunity to explore maintenance programme and reliability challenges from the operator perspective and Jetstar's experience of predictive solutions.
Digital transformation remained firmly on the agenda during the morning, with Collins Aerospace examining how operators can calculate the real-world value of predictive maintenance, before Joramco shared its journey from a paper-intensive maintenance environment towards digital operations and e-signature.
Lufthansa Technik also explored the integration of aircraft health insights, predictive analytics, technical investigation and maintenance action through AVIATAR, while Spaero challenged delegates to consider what greater collaboration - even between competitors - could mean for aviation.
The afternoon shifted the focus towards a critical question running throughout PAM APAC: once maintenance technology identifies a problem, what happens next?
That challenge came to the fore during the final panel, ‘Beyond the Alert’. Moderated by Kamal Patel, chief growth officer at AireXpert, the discussion brought together Dan Crain of Robot Toolworx, Job Arnold of STRADE, Emna Touihri of AERAUT and Willi Prahl of Lufthansa Technik.
The panel examined how technical insight can be converted into coordinated action across maintenance control, engineering, materials, operations and external partners, and how connected workflows can help maintenance teams respond faster when aircraft availability is at stake.
Further sessions during the afternoon tackled the human and technological infrastructure required to make that transition possible, from technician execution readiness and the realities of AI to the future of aircraft data pipelines and machine learning applications for reliability.
The close of day two brought to an end a two-day programme that reflected how far the predictive maintenance conversation has moved.
While collecting and analysing aircraft data remains fundamental, discussions throughout PAM APAC increasingly centred on the next challenge: turning that intelligence into timely decisions and tangible operational action.
Across the event, airline speakers from Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Air India and Jetstar joined OEMs, MRO providers, technology companies and other aviation specialists, creating a broad cross-section of perspectives on the future of intelligent airline operations.
With lively discussion continuing beyond the conference stage and throughout the networking areas, PAM APAC 2026 highlighted both the pace of technological change and the value of bringing different parts of the aviation maintenance ecosystem together to tackle its practical challenges.
Thank you to all speakers, sponsors and delegates for making PAM APAC 2026 a great success.
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