GE Aerospace is pushing artificial intelligence deeper into day-to-day operations, with the company saying it is now seeing clear business benefits rather than just experimental promise.

Dinakar Deshmukh, the firm’s executive director for data science and AI, said machine learning tools used to monitor engines have cut false positives by more than half and reduced lead times by over 60 per cent. He said the systems are able to identify unusual patterns that would be hard for people to spot, improving the way the company tracks commercial aircraft engines.

Generative AI is also moving into use, though Deshmukh said the technology remains a work in progress. Even so, he said some applications are already in production and are delivering measurable gains, including productivity improvements of 20 to 25 per cent in software development.

India is becoming increasingly central to that push. GE Aerospace has about 2,500 employees in India, and more than half of its AI team is based in Bengaluru. That reflects the company’s broader reliance on the country, where it has operated for more than four decades and runs major engineering and manufacturing capabilities, including its technology centre in Bengaluru and a facility in Pune that makes components for several engine platforms.

The company is also building out its supplier network in India and has separately expanded its Next Engineers programme in Bengaluru to help develop future talent. Deshmukh said the group is being selective about where it applies AI, focusing on high-value operational areas rather than spreading the technology too broadly. He also said the hardest task is taking a tool from prototype to full-scale deployment, and that GE’s investment in AI has risen by 2.5 to 3 times over the past two and a half years.

Source: Noah Wire Services