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Chyrine Mezher on February 25, 2021 at 3:17 PM
Payload design interns at Lockheed Martin, Mohamed Al Salami (L) and Hamad Al Nuaimi (R), show off the new AI inspection capability at Lockheed Martin booth during IDEX 2021.
ABU DHABI: Lockheed Martin is using an AI algorithm built and tested by a group of UAE interns to detect paint and primer defects on its airframes and plans to use it across the company’s planes.
Demonstrated at IDEX 2021 here, the system helps improve the speed and accuracy of quality inspections on aircraft production lines in the U.S.
Although the company did not reveal what aircraft are using the new AI solution, the company ultimately aims to “scale it across all kinds of its in-house aircraft product lines,” a company spokesperson told me.