ASEAN CONTROL WORLD EXPO/TRANS4M - KL CONVENTION CENTRE - 23-24/05/2022 - MY BRIEF OBSERVATIONS - NIK ZAFRI

ASEAN Control World Expo/Trans4M 2022 #controlworldexpo with Managing Principal of Noma SWO Consult - KL Convention Centre, KLCC

It was great. The exhibitors have range of sophisticated state of the art technology, devices, robotics, software and apps, IOT and Artificial Intelligence. The QA/QC-based multi-faceted analysis presented were really good with detailed explanation and justifications.

What I see lacking are :

a) is the link towards applicable codes of practice especially when you speak about Standard Deviation or displaying measurement tables - without the applicable codes of practice/standards, people may be wondering where do you based your argument to determine that "this is ok" or "this is not ok" or "within tolerance" or "not within tolerance

b) The analysis; although thorough; unfortunately the "deficiencies" are not linked to some form of two most important elements, Risk Analysis (for proactive Risk Identification and Assessment) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to prevent similar problems to reoccur or at least reduced in the future. RCA will determine the competency of the person correcting the arising problems whether such person require additional training etc.

c) The analysis; despite multi-faceted; is not focused on "by cost-analysis" - which is extremely important in my 20+ years experience in QA/QC profession.

d) Some apps, system and devices are good in detecting vibration and noise - proven useful for construction industry such as "piling" - which is quite limited unless they are used for preventive slope stability analysis or soil movement or perhaps can be a value-added tool during Site Investigation/Reconnaissance.

The other problem is that the datum (like Lidar) should also make way for conversion/input into the modern Architectural Building Information Model to simulate or project the image via Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.

e) On Personal Observations : I've also noticed the visitors are a little low, whether they have a low interest towards the "tech-nerdy" exhibition or the time is not right or perhaps the cost/pricing of sophisticated systems are "too high" to procure during post-lockdown recovery period. Whatever the case maybe, the organizers should promote this event a little more bigger in the future - considering the displays are significantly important to the future of industries.

CHINA EASTERN AIRLINE MU5735 REMINDS ME OF XL AIRWAYS FLIGHT 888 (NIK ZAFRI)

It always saddens the whole world to hear or to witness air plane crashes. Our hearts go to China Eastern Airline MU5735 immediate family, company workers and friends of the victims. Here's what some friends of mine thinks.

Setting aside act of terrorism or foul play, the case of China Eastern Airline crash is almost similar to XL Airways Flight 888 (acceptance flight for an Airbus A320 on 27 November 2008), the plane stalled and the captain increased power while pushing his side stick forward to bring the nose down - a maneuver to prevent stalling but it doesn't work. The plane continues to pitch up until it loses lift and falls from the sky - crashed into the Mediterranean sea - believed to be in vertical attitude just like China Eastern Airlines

Based on the investigators finding :

Computer simulations help to analyze flight 888's final flight check. It appeared that the Captain deliberately slows his plane down for the test, but the computer lets the speed drop too far. Below the minimum needed to keep the plane in flight. There was a warning on the cockpit flight display (Use Man Pitch Trim) - moments before the crash. It's to alert the pilots that the flight computer is no longer helping to fly the plane. The plane has been switched to full manual mode. The warning comes on when the plane's computer gets conflicting information.

The sensors are telling the computer the plane is flying level but other onboard sensors are relaying its' extreme nose up attitude. One of these readings must be wrong. Perhaps in the chaos, the pilots didn't see the warning.

In manual mode, by increasing power while pushing his side stick forward to bring the nose down is not enough where they also need to adjust the trim wheel for a more dramatic change of pitch.

Note :

The abovementioned was only a test flight (acceptance flight) using Airbus A320 and it was being operated by the best pilots just like China Eastern Airline. A320 is different than the China Eastern Airline where it involved Boeing 737 800. (Both A320 and B737 800 have a good reputation of a long safety-track record)

However, we still have to wait for the recovery of the "black box" and data analysis captured by Flightradar24 in order to know the real findings.

HANG TUAH - MISTERI DAN SEJARAH YANG MASIH KABUR - Catitan Nik Zafri

(Saya membenarkan sesiapa untuk menyalin kembali tulisan ini asalkan kredit diberikan pada penulisnya - untuk artikel ini, tiada foto akan digunakan)

Satu nama di lipatan sejarah yang sentiasa menjadi konflik di kalangan sejarawan dan pengkaji mahupun cerita mulut ramai orang. Watak ini sentiasa diwarnakan dengan kejadian mistik, dakwaan mimpi, kehebatan Taming Sari, kisah pertarungan dengan sahabat baiknya Hang Jebat dan banyaklah lagi.

Laksamana Hang Tuah juga dikatakan seorang pelayar yang hebat. Menggunakan kapal yang dinamakan Mendam Berahi (Galley Class), beliau dikatakan telah menjelajahi sekurang-kurangnya 14 buah negara atau bandar, iaitu Majapahit, Bentan, Lingga, Palembang, Jayakarta, Acheh, Brunei, Siam, Benua Keling, Benua China, Mesir, Jeddah, Mekah, Madinah dan juga Benua Rom Uthmaniah Istanbul.

Rujukan-rujukan yang menjadi pegangan selama ini telah bertukar menjadi kabur dan inilah puncanya ia menjadi polemik yang besar. Malah "timeline" juga menjadi konflik.

A) RUJUKAN

1) Hikayat Hang Tuah - sebahagian kandungan hikayat ini hampir sahaja ditolak oleh pakar sejarah sehingga pada tahun 2003 - sebuah artifak keris Melayu yang mempunyai sembilan lok dan sepanjang 22 cm yang ditemui di Kuil Enkakuji, di tapak yang berdekatan dengan Istana Shurijo, yang berusia abad ke-15 Masihi. Apabila dipadankan, ianya sama jalur masanya dengan kisah Hang Tuah ke Jepun.

Turut dijumpai ialah 21 pucuk surat yang berusia 444 tahun (sekitar 1480an) yang didakwa ditulis oleh Hang Tuah kepada Maharaja Ryukyu (Rekidai Hŏan) - mengenai hubungan kerajaan Ryukyu &

Melaka. Hal yang sama juga disebut dalam buku "Ryukyuan Relations with Korea and the South Sea Countries: An Annotated Translation of Documents in the Rekidai Hŏan. Kyoto: Kawakita Printing" karya Atushu Kobata dan Mitsugu Matsuda. (1969) di mana gelaran "Lo-Shi Ma-na" (Laksmana) digunakan.

Juga disebut dalam Hikayat ini ialah pertarungan beliau dengan seorang Samurai atau Shogun.

2) Sulatus Salatin - Sejarah Melayu - yang menyebut nama Hang Tuah sebanyak 120X termasuk kisah-kisahnya

3) Sejarah Rasmi - hanya mencatatkan peristiwa dan nama-nama penting sahaja.

Di dalam jurnal Alfonso de Albuquerque yang tercatat pada "The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India, Afonso Albuquerque Vol. I- IV, 1744 Portuguese Edition,

(Tr.) Walter De Gray Birch.1875-1884. London: Hakluyt Society. (Berdasarkan catatan asal Afonso Dalboquerque kepada Raja Don Emmanuel 1469-1521)

menyebut mengenai seorang "Laksamana" ("Huang" Tuah) yang sangat hebat (dari segi ilmu kebatinannya) dan sukar diajak berunding - berada di Temasik ketika beliau mengetuai armada

Portugis menawan Melaka 1511. Ketika itu Hang Tuah telah pun berusia 80 tahun. Jurnal yang sama juga didakwa bahawa Sultan Alauddin Riayat Syah merupakan cucu pada Hang Tuah atas dasar

perkahwinan Sultan Mansur Shah dan Puteri pada Hang Tuah.

Kedua-dua kisah ini juga terdapat dalam Suma Oriental que trata do Mar Roxo até aos Chins (Summa of the East, from the Red Sea up to the Chinese) atau ringkasnya Suma Oriental.

B) DAKWAAN ASAL-USUL HANG TUAH :

1) Dari Sungai Duyong, Melaka

2) Dari Sungai Duyong, Pulau Singkep, Indonesia - keturunan Sekana - suku Melayu asli laut Indonesia

3) Dari Bukit Yong atau Pulau Melaka, Kelantan - mempunyai darah diraja Kelantan/Patani

4) Dari Ayuthia Thailand - mempunyai darah diraja pemerintah Islam Thailand

5) Dari Deli

6) Dari Palembang

7) Dari China - mempunyai talian darah dengan keturunan Syed

Nota Sisi :

PENGUASAAN KERAJAAN MELAYU MELAKA

Kerajaan Kesultanan Melayu Melaka dikatakan muncul/diasaskan di bawah Kesultanan Kedah/Nusantara/Sri Vijaya pada zaman Sultan Muzaffar 1.

Kesultanan Melaka sehingga ke abad 15 telah menguasai (atau mempunyai hubungan diplomatik yang rapat dengan) Johor, Pahang, Terengganu, Kelantan dan Pattani. Selain itu di Indonesia - Rokan, Siak Sri Indrapura, Riau, Rengat dan Inderagiri. Adalah difahamkan lokasi Negeri Melaka yang dikenali sekarang adalah Ibunegara kepada Kerajaan/Empayar Kesultanan Melayu Melaka di mana terdapat Kota Melaka sebelum serangan Portugis.

C) DAKWAAN GURU HANG TUAH

1) Aria Putera, Bukit Panchalusa, Rangkaian Gunung Ledang

2) Raden Mas Arya Putera (Sultan Baki Shah? - Raden Mas Arya di Gunung?)

3) Sayyid Thanauddin Kubra (Sayyid Saman)

D) DAKWAAN-DAKWAAN LAIN

1) Hampir 5 orang yang direkodkan pernah bermimpi bertemu dengan Hang Tuah - malangnya versi-versi yang diberikan amat berbeza antara satu dengan yang lain dan tidak dapatlah saya

menggunakan mimpi sahaja sebagai bukti

2) Ada dua orang yang menggunakan gelaran Hang Tuah (dan Hang Jebat) - seorang di Kelantan atau Ayuthia dan seorang lagi di Melaka atau Indonesia

3) Hang Lekir, Hang Lekiu, Hang Kasturi muncul di zaman Hang Tuah II

4) Ada 2-3 orang mendakwa mempunyai Keris Taming Sari walaupun Keris Taming Sari sebenar dikatakan telah menjadi milik KDYMM Sultan Perak

5) Ada 2 timeline yang konflik - sekitar abad 12-13 (Hang Tuah 1) dan sekitar abad 14-15 (Hang Tuah 2) Dan dikatakan Hang Tuah 2 adalah keturunan Hang Tuah 1. Dakwaan sama juga diletakkan pada Hang Jebat. Bezanya di zaman Hang Tuah 1 - hanya ada Hang Jebat (dikatakan seorang berketurunan Raja)

6) Hang Tuah ghaib dan akan muncul kembali bila tiba masanya

7) Hang Tuah tidak membunuh Hang Jebat, malah menyuruhnya lari ke Pulau Langkawi.

8 ) Hang Tuah dikatakan pada usia 80-an telah beruzlah/ mengasingkan diri kerana kekecewaannya terhadap pembelotan orang-orang Melayu terhadap negeri dan rajanya.

E) DAKWAAN LOKASI KUBUR HANG TUAH

1) Tanjung Kling Melaka - Catitan Sulatussalatin Tun Sri Lanang

"Hatta maka Laksamana Hang Tuah pun kembalilah ke rahmat Allah Taala, maka (titah) oleh Sultan Mahmud ditanamkan di Tanjung Keling, dengan sepenuh-penuh adat dianugerahkan; tiga hari baginda tiada nobat. Maka Khoja Hassanlah jadi Laksamana, menggantikan mertuanya. Maka Laksamana Khoja Hassan beranak dengan anak Laksamana Hang Tuah seorang lelaki, bernama Tun Abdul. Wallahu a'lamu bi'l sawab, wa ilaihi'l marji'u wa'l ma'ab".

Namun ada dakwaan dari seorang pengkaji menyatakan Kubur Panjang di Tanjung Keling Melaka adalah milik Bendahara Seri Maharaja Tun Mutahir iaitu ayahanda Permaisuri Tun Fatimah. Dakwaan lain turut menyatakan kubur ini adalah milik ulama Islam berasal dari Gujerat, India

2) Bandar Maharani, Muar, Johor - Jalan Bakri 1 - Kubur berunsurkan Aceh yang dipindahkan dari tempat lain ke Jalan Bakri - tidak diketahui milik siapa.

3) Palembang, Indonesia - sebuah kubur purba (dianggarkan 300 tahun usianya) di Kompleks Pemakaman Kerajaan Palembang Darussalam di Jalan Candi Welan, yang didakwa penduduk sebagai makam Laksamana Hang Tuah (ianya dikatakan hasil "mimpi" penduduk setempat)

F) USIA HANG TUAH

1431-1444

- Tahun kelahiran sehingga berusia 13 tahun / zaman kanak-kanak

- Pemerintahan Sultan Muhammad Shah (1424-1444)

1444-1459

- Berusia 13 tahun hingga 25 tahun / zaman remaja

- Pemerintahan Sultan Muzaffar Shah (1446-1456)

1459-1477

- Berusia 25 tahun hingga 46 tahun / zaman dewasa

- Pemerintahan Sultan Mansur Shah (1456-1477)

1477-1488

- Berusia 46 tahun hingga 57 tahun - zaman pertengahan

- Pemerintahan Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah (1477-1488) - dikatakan Sultan yang paling muda diangkat menjadi Sultan Melaka

1488-1511

- Berusia 57 tahun hingga 80 tahun - zaman tua

- Pemerintahan Sultan Mahmud Shah (1488-1511)

G) KESIMPULAN

Hang Tuah memang wujud dan beliau adalah seorang Laksamana dan Duta kepada Kerajaan Melayu Melaka.

Beliau adalah seorang yang berdisiplin dan beretika, memiliki ilmu pertahanan diri dan ilmu kebatinan yang hebat, seorang yang telah bersumpah taat setia pada Rajanya dan berkhidmat hanya untuk kepentingan mertabat bangsanya iaitu orang-orang Melayu, seorang yang mempunyai kehebatan penulisan dan ilmu persuratan yang tinggi dll.

Apapun polemik, dakwaan dan konflik yang timbul, nama Hang Tuah akan tetap segar di ingatan kita dari generasi ke generasi.

Saya berbangga kerana banyak negeri/negara dan pelbagai bangsa mengaku bahawa sejarah Hang Tuah adalah "milik mereka" Itulah kehebatan Hang Tuah sehingga dia jadi rebutan ramai manusia.

Hang Tuah dilihat sebagai satu figura yang mampu menyatukan orang Melayu, warisan persilatan, memertabatkan Raja-Raja Melayu dll.

AL-FATIHAH

My new pandemic book is coming soon - Bill Gates

 

I’ve written a book about how we can make sure the world never suffers through something like COVID-19 again.

By Bill Gates

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February 08, 2022  2 minute read

I believe that COVID-19 can be the last pandemic.

I know that might be hard to believe while we’re still trying to get COVID under control. The last two years have caused unbelievable amounts of hardship around the world, and it’s not easy to feel optimistic when you’ve endured the misery that so many people have experienced. But whenever I see the suffering that COVID has created–every time I read about the latest death toll or hear about someone who lost their job or drive by a school that is closed—I can’t help but think: We don’t have to do this again.

This is something I’ve been thinking about for a long time, and COVID has only made it clearer that the world needs to prioritize eliminating pandemics as a threat to humanity. I’ve been following COVID since the early days of the outbreak, working with experts from inside and out of the Gates Foundation who are championing a more equitable response and have been fighting infectious diseases for decades. I’ve learned a lot in the process—both about this pandemic and how we stop the next one—and I want to share what I’ve heard with people. So, I started writing a book about how we can make sure that no one suffers through a pandemic ever again.

The book is called How to Prevent the Next Pandemic. You can read it on May 3, 2022, and it’s being published by Knopf in the U.S. and Penguin Random House internationally.

In the book, I lay out the specific steps we can take to not only stop future pandemics but, in the process, provide better health care for everyone around the world. I outline the lessons we can learn from this pandemic, the innovations we need to save lives, and the new tools we need to stop pathogens early and equitably. I also tell you about my regular conversations with public health leaders like Anthony Fauci and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, my view of the vaccines that are stemming the tide, and what it’s been like to become the subject of conspiracy theories.

The goal of no more pandemics ever is ambitious, but the progress we’ve made over the last two years—including the huge leaps forward we’ve made with vaccines and the knowledge we’ve gained about respiratory illnesses—has already set us on a path to success. The world now understands how seriously we should take pandemics, and momentum is on our side. No one needs to be convinced that an infectious disease could kill millions of people or shut down the global economy. If we make the right choices and investments, we can make COVID-19 the last pandemic.

PETRONAS and Shell collaborate on carbon capture and storage solutions

 JAN 20, 2022 (Fluid Handling International)

PETRONAS and Shell collaborate on carbon capture and storage solutions

PETRONAS has signed a Joint Study and Collaboration Agreement (JSCA) with Sarawak Shell to explore opportunities and project collaborations in carbon capture and storage (CCS) to help provide carbon dioxide (CO2) storage solutions in Malaysia and the region.

Under the JSCA, PETRONAS and Shell will perform an integrated CCS Area Development Plan study to support the decarbonisation ambitions of both parties within selected locations offshore Sarawak.

The scope of the agreement includes exploring the provision of decarbonisation service to Shell’s local and cross-border facilities, as well as to other potential regional customers.

The outcome of the study will produce options in potential areas for further collaboration.

Signing the agreement on behalf of PETRONAS was its executive vice president and chief executive officer of upstream, Adif Zulkifli, while Shell was represented by its Malaysia chairman and senior vice president of Upstream Malaysia, Ivan Tan.

Zulkifli said: “PETRONAS has a long-standing partnership with Shell. We are confident that this latest collaboration will inspire more innovation towards managing carbon emissions and advancing our shared ambition of delivering energy solutions in a responsible and sustainable manner.

“This collaboration underscores PETRONAS’ continuous efforts to explore partnership opportunities in CCS. We will continue this trajectory to unlock opportunities which could potentially help reduce emissions and achieve our net zero carbon emissions aspirations. This is one of the many efforts to position and establish Malaysia as a leading CCS solutions hub in the region.”

Last November, PETRONAS signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia  to explore opportunities in CCS technologies to support the decarbonisation of Malaysia’s upstream industry as well as to provide CO2 storage solutions for the region.

WE HOPE A LIFE HAVE BEEN SAVED

After my Friday nite prayers (11/11/21), I was taking a stroll with my wife visiting Genting Sempah R & R for a quick drink last night at about 10.30 pm. Parked near McDonalds. Suddenly I noticed something strange. A trailer (Volvo) was parked behind Petronas with many people knocking on the door and wind shield. 

As I drew myself closer, I found out, the parents left the trailer with air-con and engine running - for a while to go to the toilet leaving their young kid behind sleeping in the small cabin in the trailer. 

It appeared that their kid was locked inside believed to be sleeping. (it could have been "autolock") I was made to understand, they have been trying to wake up the kid for nearly an hour - mum, dad and sister outside knocking/banging on the door and windshields. I saw few LPT (Highway) officers were also present to help. Somehow the engines stopped (it must have been the dad pulling the battery cable from the engine)

My wife insisted me to call emergency hotline which I did. Spoke to the Police, Ambulance and BOMBA for nearly 30 minutes describing the incident clearly. My wife also rushed to the scene to see how she can help.

Not too long later, police patrol car (first arrived at the scene), two ambulances (one from Hospital, the other from BOMBA (Malaysian Fire Brigade ERT) appeared on the scene.

The BOMBA worked so efficiently and quickly to open the door and managed to do so in 1/2 and hour without breaking the glass. Miraculously the kid survived the ordeal. Most cases like this may end up in fatality.

Lesson, do not leave your children sleeping in the car while both parent go to the toilet. 

I write this is to dedicate the great service that BOMBA, Ambulance and The Police have provided. This should not go untold. KUDOS - to our unsung heroes.

Me and my wife? We will never ask anything in return. Just happy that our fast act, may have save a life.

CAN TRADE SECRETS BE PROTECTED TODAY? - Overview by Nik Zafri

Nowadays, any organization with full infrastructure of ICT network and systems practicing 'data sharing' using the B2B and B2C platforms, painstakingly since early 2000 are now expanding their business.

However, when we talk about 'data transparency', the challenge is safeguarding 'sensitive data' (such as trade-secrets) and at the same time, not to intervene with the flow of information.

But today, should such secrets are not properly safeguarded, the sensitive data can suddenly become obsolete tomorrow due to "information explosion" on the net. Today, one organization introduced the latest technology, (no-hush-hush) - the next day, you'll see that the 'so-called new technology' ended up with similar but more improvised technology at the cheaper price - surprisingly from another country that thousands of miles away.

To avoid leaking problems, the plumbers are usually ICT and Human Resource Management - but what about the losses due to leaking information. Although the two departments are the right ones to deal with personnel revealing confidential information but it is still deemed as 'fire-fighting'. True enough, it happens again and again.

Humbly, let me share my own experience when I was employed to one organization to make a 'turnaround' under consultancy capability.

Without going into too much details, all I can conclude is that I managed to convince top management and other units/departments to return to the basics (looking back into the Core Business Process profusely written in their very own Company Manual - (chuckle they will find)

1) Research and Development, 

2) Design, 

3) Innovation, 

4) Advertising and Promotion, 

5) Market Survey, 

6) Marketing and Sales. 

Despite the hiccups I had with the 'Executive Management' team, I have succesfully managed to 'rehighlight' the aforesaid '6 profit centre' units to ALWAYS be in the lead to entice prospects, new customers and returning customers.

The 'data sharing' practices (what to share with the customers even on the company's website) must FIRST come and being reviewed by these units as they are the ones who knows better than any other units/departments which data is deemed as confidential or otherwise. 

The root cause of failure is always linked to another department or unit coming in 'too early' into the picture and doing 'someone's else job'. 

Sometimes, rewarding scheme for people achieving targets and definitely punishing those who did not can be BOTH FATAL.

People will start cutting corners, stabbing one another, stepping on other "cats tails" and God knows what. 

What if rewarding and punishing are being applied to Occupational Safety and Health matters, then there may be dangerous risks and hazards even leading to incidents and accidents - when workers start to cut corners either to achieve the objectives OR the fear of not achieving it. 

Mind you, I'm neither implying that other departments/units are of less significance nor rewarding system should not be practiced.

I'm really talking about :

a) 'Who to do What and When' and also 

b) effective monitoring must first be in place before considering to reward or to punish.

STATUS HALAL VAKSIN PFIZER BIONTECH COVID-19 DI LUAR NEGARA - ULASAN NIK ZAFRI

LIHAT KESELURUHAN ARTIKEL KARYA NIK ZAFRI

Sekumpulan mufti dan ulama terkenal di UK telah memfatwakan bahawa Vaksin Pfizer BioNTech untuk merawat Covid-19 adalah HALAL kerana ianya tidak mempunyai komponen yang berasal dari haiwan.

Pada awalnya salah satu bahan yang dikesan adalah sejenis kolesterol. Apabila kajian dilakukan, didapati kolesterol ini bukan berasal daripada lemak haiwan tetapi ekstrak telur ayam.

Excipient : 

Eksipien adalah bahan yang tidak aktif yang dibuat bersamaan dengan bahan aktif dari suatu ubat-ubatan yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan volume (bulking up) bahan aktif tersebut. Eksipien disebut juga dengan pelarut (diluent) atau "pengisi" (filler).

Semua lipid eksipien yang digunakan dalam Vaksin Covid-19 mRNA BNT162b2 adalah diekstrak samada daripada tumbuhan ataupun jenis sintetik. Vaksin berkenaan tidak mempunyai sebarang komponen yang berasal dari haiwan atau lemak haiwan.

Sila rujuk nota dalam foto-foto di bawah untuk maklumat lanjut. (Kenyataan dari BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH Kupferbergterrasse 17-19 55116 Mainz, Germany)

PART OF MY ACHIEVEMENTS