siri lawatan 1992 - 1999

TRIP TO DENMARK DEC 1998

The trip to Conpenhagen Denmark was part of a factory visit and inspection to Zone System A/S, a Danish company for TM Special Network project. The trip was an agreed term for the Contract to supply and Install  Network Management System for Navy landline Telecommunication Network. Zone System was founded on 1995 by Niel Zibrandsten to provide telecomunication specialising on network protection.  

 TM also conducted other factory visit such as to Andrew Corporation together with Trisilco Folec. The person in charge for Trisilco Folec at that time none other Suhaimi Meor Hassan, the popular singer with poetic songs. He was a nice and relax person. Everytime, we met, he could still remember me despite we knew each other in a short period. We did have tough time together negotiating with TM especially with the Manager in charge, Puan Hamidah.

Puan Hamidah and En Yusni represented TM Specialised Network whilst I represented Pernec. Martin from Zone System was the host. The CEO, Niel Zibrandsten was also peresent during our visit. We visited Conpenhagen at wrong period which was end December 1998 right after Christmas. It was really cold almost 0 deg C. It was also holiday period that many shops were closed at that time. Conpenhagen was like a ghost town. I was suffering from rhinitis allergy but I took wrong medicine, clarinase which was effective to dry the nose. I end-up having irritating  and itchy nose until I stopped taking the medicine.

 The visit to Zone System office It was  eye opener to me. The company proved that a company with only 20 employees can still do global business worldwide. They were one fastest growth company in Denmark. The business operation was kept to minimum. They did not have any production but developed own products. They employed Sales, R&D also Testing team and Technical  support. The R&D team design the products. Once finalised, they will engage another Contract Manufacturing to produce the equipment for them. The R&D team would do the final test after receiving the goods from the CM.

We took opportunity to visit interesting places in Denmark. One of the them was the Conpenhagen icon,  "Little  mermaid,  a statue of a mermaid in Langelinie, Conpenhagen. It was based on the fairy tale by Han Christian Andersen. It was with a height of 1.25 metre.

The statue was commissioned in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen, who had been fascinated by a ballet about the fairytale in Copenhagen's Royal Theatre and asked the primaballerina, Ellen Price, to model for the statue. The bronze statue, which was unveiled on 23 August 1913.

Another interesting location was the museum. Here we learnt about the Scanivadi and medieval history. One of interesting dispaly was the boat of the