Who we serve / Aerospace
The fleet is growing. The number of people certified to maintain it is not keeping up.
What is happening
728,000
new maintenance technicians commercial aviation will need over the next twenty years.
Boeing, Pilot and Technician Outlook 202625,000
certificated mechanics short by 2028, a gap of nearly 20%, up from about 9%.
ATEC and Oliver Wyman, Pipeline Report, 20242.3%
average yearly growth in the number of certificated mechanics over five years.
FAA data, cited in the ATEC Pipeline Report
Our view
Aerospace already takes procedures more seriously than any other industry. The task card is law. What has not changed is the form: dense manuals in an old format, written once, and read by someone with twenty years of context.
That context is what is leaving. When a task is not covered, a mechanic searches earlier cases or calls the manufacturer, and under time pressure the description that comes back from the field is thin, which makes more work for engineering. We think the gap that matters is not headcount but time to competence.
Published studies by airframers on guided 3D instructions point the same way: people new to a task finish faster and make fewer first-time errors when they can see the step on the part.
Where Machinebase fits
- Procedures built from the engineering model, so the step and the part cannot disagree.
- Each step framed on the 3D assembly, with the path a part takes in or out.
- Authoring measured in hours, which matters when every design change means new paperwork.