We welcome Dr. Walter JURY, CEO of Schindler Korea
Schindler is the largest supplier of escalators and the second largest manufacturer of elevators worldwide. It has around 40'000 employees operations span all five continents. Globally, Schindler equipment moves more than 700 million people per day. Schinder company was founded by Mr. Robert Schindler in Lucerne, in Switzerland in 1874. The Schindler employs around 44 000 people worldwide and comprises two core areas of business: Elevators & Escalators, which contributed 70% of sales in 2006, and ALSO, an IT distributor in Europe. The parent company Schindler Holding Ltd. is listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange, as is ALSO.
For any individual need in the market, Schindler provides an appropriate elevator solution. Starting with low-rise requirements focusing on basic transportation needs at affordable costs, through mid-rise applications for the residential and commercial market segments, and finally on to the high requirements and high-rise segment. Schindler supplies elevators, escalator and moving walk but it also has very creative and unique systems relating to elevator. These are Miconic 10 and Schindler ID. Schindler Miconic 10 is the industry’s original destination control system, proven in buildings all over the world with more than 2000 elevators in service! Schindler Miconic 10 uses a revolutionary traffic management system that brings people to their destinations faster than any other elevator control. In Busan National Pension Service Miconic 10 was hold first in Korea. Next on is Scindler ID. Schindler ID can provide multiple levels of security, from simple access control to highly restricted use all reconfigurable by our customer at any time. Just with putting a card in which are inserted personal information about their destination stairs, people can get to their destination quickly.
Schindler has also well-organized modernization. Schindler does not only produce moving machine but also it repair and change old one; they call it as ‘modernization'. The rate of modernization of whole income of Schinlder is almost 77%. Schindler has different service from other companies. All of their machines are watched from service team and special educated phone call worker respond to clients’ ask for 24hours.
In students’ presentation we talked about these facts and also some articles of Schindler. We saw an article about direct manager Dr. Jury and then actually he visited our university and provides a sincere presentation for us. At first he announced what he most importantly thinks in intervewing and some advice to students finding a jobs. And then he presented some slides about Schindler. After that he showed us a publicity video of Miconic 10 and Schindler ID. It was very impressive and many students were interested in those, even professors too. Following his presentation some of students asked a question of how to they design the elevators harmoniously with the environment, how to advertise the company when they came into Korea first and Korean market’s competitive power comparing with other Asian countries etc.
Until we collected data about Schindler, we’d no idea or information about elevator company. Most students might be same with me. However as I knew about Schinder especially their technology and services, we were impressed very much. And now when I take an elevator or escalater or movingwalk, I check which company made the one. Actually Schindler does not occupy large part in Korea, but I hope Schindler Korea become one of the largest elevator company in Korea.
