Digital maintenance records move from pilot projects to purchase requirements

For a decade, digitised maintenance records were a differentiator a shop could advertise. The change now visible in tender language is that they are becoming a threshold requirement: operators want records that transfer cleanly at redelivery, feed reliability analytics and survive an asset sale without a paper reconciliation project. Shops in emerging markets face a choice — invest in records infrastructure or be progressively excluded from exactly the long-term contracts that justify the investment. The advantage sits with newer facilities that never accumulated paper in the first place.