MaSiMO: Autonomous Quality Inspection in Aviation MRO and Manufacturing Using Asset Administration Shell, Digital Product Passport and Eclipse Dataspace Connector

In the age of data-driven aviation, enabling seamless, standardized, and sovereign collaboration among all participating stakeholders remains a critical challenge. Central to this is the task of ensuring and restoring product conformity – spanning from quality assurance during manufacturing to non-conformity resolution in MRO operations and manufacturing. A promising approach to this challenge is the concept of self-managed, digitally represented assets in the form of Industry 4.0 Asset Administration Shells that autonomously coordi-nate their own quality-related services within choreographed, federated data spaces. The paper demonstrates this vision through an analysis of a jet-engine blade use case, confirming feasibility of federated inspection while revealing limits in registration accuracy and sensor resolution.