Honeywell helps Vietnam’s civil aviation grow

Mai Trang Thanh, president of Honeywell Vietnam

The seminar aims to exchange experience and showcase Honeywell’s advanced technologies in flight management and address the trends in airport surveillance and challenges in civil aviation.

Various solutions and technologies were also introduced at the seminar to improve effectiveness and efficiency for aviation industry in general and exploitation activities of airports and airlines in particular.

Mai Trang Thanh, president of Honeywell Vietnam, said: “Along with the rapid growth of Vietnam’s aviation industry in recent years, maintaining that growth speed meanwhile ensuring absolute safety for aviation business is the top priority of Vietnam. It is critical that all the technologies and systems – in the cockpit, on the taxiway or at the terminal -- must interoperate and integrate in a seamless fashion.

“I’m confident our customers will find Honeywell’s expertise in both aerospace, and automation and controls valuable in helping them achieve enhanced safety and security, reduced accident rates and improve comfort and productivity while keeping the operating cost and energy consumption low.”

Seminar participants discussed various topics that are practical, constructive and most-concerning to Vietnam’s aviation and airport development, including air traffic modernisation, airside operation management, cockpit technologies for enhanced safety and situational awareness and GBAS system.

As the prestigious leader and advisor in the technology industry, Honeywell’s wide-ranging- expertise and all-inclusive technologies and solutions make Vietnam’s airlines, regulators and airports all work in harmony. Consequently, this increases safety levels for the aviation business both in the air with Honeywell’s electronic and mechanical aviation components, and on the ground with their airport security and building automation products and services.

Honeywell has successfully developed a comprehensive portfolio of advanced technologies for improving air traffic management on the ground, in the cockpit and in the terminals – to ensure easier landing for planes/passengers, faster and more efficient operations, while helping airport operators minimise flight delays and cancellations. Honeywell is helping to develop the next generation system that uses GPS satellites rather than radar. This will allow planes to fly closer together and land more quickly without sacrificing safety. Just improving the air traffic control system can enable less dependence on foreign oil by 1 per cent, saving 50 million barrels of oil and over 18 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.

Honeywell provides the airport, specifically the owners or operators with intelligent and innovative solutions that exceed their demands. The extensive range of product systems and services includes fire detection and life safety management, CCTV surveillance, access controls, building management systems, manned control centers, airport ground lighting and aircraft-to-gate docking systems – all designed and integrated to meet an airport’s individual needs. Honeywell can also provide structured fiber networks for business systems that display the data management needed for operations.     

Last year, a new airport business to integrate capabilities has been formed leveraging capabilities from a variety of Honeywell businesses. The new Honeywell Airport Business offers airport customers turnkey solutions that make multiple aspects of running an airport - building and energy management, life safety, security, airfield ground lighting, visual docking guidance, advanced-surface movement guidance control, foreign object detection, and vehicle tracking – interoperate and communicate seamlessly.