July 20 - 24, 2026 | Farnborough, UK
TCS at Farnborough International Airshow 2026
Future-Ready Skies
Industry
Manufacturing
Future-Ready Manufacturing: Partnering in your journey to a sustainable manufacturing enterprise
Travel and Logistics
Data and AI in Travel Industry for a Memorable Passenger Experience
Service
Industrial Autonomy & Engineering
Industrial Autonomy & Engineering: Building autonomous enterprises where intelligence is embedded directly into the value chain and operating models
Enterprise Solutions
Accelerate Enterprise Digital Transformation for Sustainable Change
What will it take to build an aerospace ecosystem that is intelligent, resilient, and sustainable by default?
The Farnborough International Airshow 2026 provided a global platform for industry leaders to shape the future of aerospace through innovation in digital technologies, sustainability, and advanced engineering. TCS leveraged the opportunity to showcase its ability to help organisations accelerate transformation with AI, digital engineering, smart manufacturing, and data-driven operations.
Future-ready skies
With future-ready skies being the vision, TCS presented a bold perspective on how digital transformation helped aerospace and defense enterprises move beyond incremental change towards adaptive, future-proof operations.
At Farnborough, TCS demonstrated how organisations harness AI, digital engineering, and intelligent ecosystems to improve agility, enhance safety, accelerate innovation, and drive sustainable performance—unlocking new possibilities for the next era of flight.
TCS sessions and more
This interactive session explored how aerospace leaders reimagined engineering, technology, and operations to accelerate innovation, strengthen resilience, and shape the future of flight.
This edition of TCS Forum delved into the executive decisions that enabled organisations to achieve enterprise-wide impact—ranging from building scalable architectures and ensuring data quality to empowering frontline teams and securing trust.
This executive panel discussion featured leaders from Sensata Technologies, Microsoft, QAD, and TCS. They explored how organisations connected engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and service operations to build intelligent, future-ready aerospace enterprises that delivered measurable business outcomes.
Leaders from Rolls-Royce, Microsoft, AVEVA, and TCS participated in this panel discussion, exploring how organizations built next-generation sustainable aerospace networks through intelligent operations, stronger ecosystem collaboration, innovative operating models, and alignment with long-term net-zero goals.
The TCS manufacturing analyst meet brought together industry analysts and leaders to explore the latest trends, innovations, and opportunities across aerospace, defense, and manufacturing. The session featured insights on digital transformation, sustainability, advanced engineering, and emerging technologies shaping the future of the industry.
SENSE: AI-driven aircraft structure inspection
An autonomous quadruped robot equipped with vision, LiDAR, thermal, and acoustic sensors used Vision AI, vision language models, and agentic workflows to detect debris, missing fasteners, cracks, and structural anomalies, enabling faster, more accurate, and intelligent aircraft inspections.
THINK: Meta glass-enabled technician co-pilot
Meta Glass Gen 2 and an OpenClaw-based AI agent provided real-time assembly guidance, component identification, troubleshooting support, and damage assessment through a custom aerospace knowledge base, delivering expert assistance exactly when needed.
OPTIMIZE: Agentic root cause analysis
An Agentic AI framework autonomously investigated defects and assembly deviations using root-cause analysis techniques, including Fishbone analysis, 5 Whys, and knowledge graphs, accelerating issue identification and resolution.
ACT: Humanoid-assisted precision fastener selection
A humanoid robot used computer vision, spatial reasoning, conversational AI, and dexterous manipulation to identify, retrieve, and prepare fasteners, improving consistency and efficiency in repetitive manufacturing tasks.
The Farnborough International Airshow 2026 featured the launch of the TCS Physical AI Readiness Report 2026. The report explored how AI-powered autonomy, intelligent robotics, digital engineering, and autonomous decision-making helped reshape the aerospace and defence industry.
The report also evaluated industry readiness as organisations moved from pilots and proof-of-concepts to enterprise-scale deployment. It provided aerospace organisations with a practical roadmap to enhance production efficiency, supply chain resilience, operational performance, and the development of next-generation aircraft and defence systems, enabling the transition from experimentation to measurable business impact.