Plucking automation lessons from the sky

摘要

While shipping makes its journey into digitisation and automation, it is wise to look for inspiration and pitfalls from other sectors that are farther ahead on the path. Discussing automation in aviation at the recent Transas Global Conference in Vancouver, Canada, on 6-8 March, Harry Nelson, director at CL Max Consulting and a former Airbus operational adviser on product safety, said, "We focus on what pilots do wrong, and it works. We are down to around two accidents a year".