Honeywell's APU Reaches a New Milestone

A vital piece of Honeywell technology, the 131-9 series Auxiliary Power Unit (APU), recently became the second from Honeywell's family of APUs to surpass 100 million hours in service across more than 7,500 narrow-body aircraft around the world such as the Boeing 737, McDonnell Douglas MD-90, and Airbus A319, A320 and A321 models.

Thanks to the technology excellence, Honeywell was selected as a major electromechanical system partner of COMAC 919 project. Nowadays, Honeywell has the most aerospace joint venture projects in China, including APU system with AVIC Dong'an, flight control system with AVIC Xi'an Flight Control Research Institute and landing gear system with AVIC Landing Gear.

Most international aerospace solution providers executed its business strategy of exchanging technology for market share in China, but conflictions of partnership are quite common due to technology gap, intellectual property issues and cultural shocks. But how to customize a market development strategy for China aerospace industry is a permanent theme to all COMAC and AVIC partners and suppliers.

From the panel during Aero Electromechanics China 2013, you may find an answer that will fit your own in working with your Chinese partners.

Approaches to international cooperation

- How are foreign partners choosing what technology to inject into their Chinese joint ventures? What are the issues?

- How far is certification expertise wrapped up in the technology transfer? Is it, and can it, be handled separately?

- How will the joint ventures evolve -- as planned and, looking further ahead, beyond current planning?

Panelists come from Honeywell, Eaton, Hamilton Sundstrand, AVIC EM

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