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ixmation MALAYSIA was there with a booth in Hall 1A, under the German Pavilion banner, and drew a lot of interest. The ixmation team included employees from our Special Purpose Machine division and Helium Leak Detection System (HLDS) division, to cater to the needs of Indian automotive component makers for automated systems, testing systems and technical consulting.
For this exhibition, we brought two demo machines to showcase ixmation’s capabilities to the Indian audience: the Single Chamber HLDS machine and a Laser Marking machine. Our visitors were thrilled to know more about our capabilities and at the same time happy to receive a souvenir in the form of a business card holder. The card holders were laser marked by our machine, with details such as the ixmation logo, the customer’s name and company, and lastly an alpha-numeric code that is uniquely assigned to each customer in our database. Overall, the two demo machines drew a lot of potential new customers as well as existing customers to our booth.
The show was a success for both ixmation MALAYSIA and automotive component manufacturers in India. Both got to know each other’s operations and capabilities better — and with these in place, hopefully a partnership will be sealed in the near future.
ixmation would like to take this opportunity to say a big “Dhanyawadh” to our Indian visitors, which means “Thank you” in Hindi!
See you at the next Auto Expo, which will be held in 2014.

Dear visitors,

We look back on a year where lot of disasters shook us awake; just remember the natural and nuclear disaster in Japan, the uprising in the Arab countries Libya, Egypt, and Syria, and overall the global financial crisis, still challenging the world economy and keeping us sleepless. Looking back on the last twenty years, I cannot remember such an accumulation of dramatic occurrences, forcing us all to make fundamental restructures.

In 2011 we saw growth of 300% in China, and at the same time a stagnating market in SE Asia — a challenge not only for ixmation.

Nevertheless we could successfully complete several projects in the Automotive and Medical Device Industry in Malaysia and China where we also received repeat orders and have been chosen for further new projects in 2012.

In the USA is the good news, that we successfully entered and established ourselves in the emerging energy market, acknowledged as an experienced, competitive and reliable assembly line builder. Our customers in the automotive supplier industry seemed to recover as well.

At the end of this year I can say, ixmation NORTH AMERICA grew stronger than the industry average in the USA.

Even though the world economy is tense and no one knows exactly what the future will bring, capital expenditures are still occurring, and there is growing potential in our four key industries.

Furthermore we want to strengthen the cooperation between our customers and all ixmation locations in 2012, to ensure that worldwide projects can be successfully and to the full satisfaction of our customers completed.

I like to bring my gratitude towards to all our shareholders, customers, business partners and suppliers for their trust and cooperation and last but not least to all ixmation employees for their engagement.

Season’s Greetings!

With my best wishes to you and your family for a happy and joyful New Year!

Sincerely Yours

Martin Pfister, CEO ixmation GROUP

The editor team of ixmation was wondering how our Asian friends and colleagues get prepared for Christmas. There we received this delightful contribution from our colleague Sy Ooi. She was attending the art class of her 4 year old daughter Kalyn and sends us these wonderful pictures; the making of a Christmas hat in Malaysia.
Enjoy the pictures and learn: “Ho, ho, ho – Santa is coming to Malaysia! So, you’d better watch out, you better be good!”

The automation line contains 26 process stations; including demanding processes such as cutting, laser marking and welding. ixmation CHINA engineers and assembly technician did a great job building this  high-tech production line to complete customer satisfaction.
To celebrate theclosing of this successful project ixmation China invited the project team to the famous Yangcheng Lake crab dinner.
Suzhou is home to one of the most popular and delicious seafood varieties you can find. Yangcheng Lake crab is world-famous for its extraordinary taste and nutritive value. Normally, three Yangcheng Lake crabs together weigh about 1 kg, a treat everybody should taste.
The dinner party attended six German gentlemen as well as General Manager Shine Liu, Director of QA & KM Paul Morach, BDM Manager Rene Scheurer, and Sales Manager BK Ooi, as “Thank You” dinner tothe German project team for their helpful technical support based on good cooperation and business relationship.

Every ixmation branch was represented, and the week’s activities for the 55 attendees included a tour of ixmation North America.
During the 1-hour tour, the group saw 12 different machines in various phases of construction. Participants learned about each machine’s function and the type of business it serves. As you might expect, “There were many insightful and intelligent questions from our guests,” reports John O’Hara, Director of Application Engineering for IXNA.

Rex Lei graduated from Shanxi Engineering College and major in mechanical design and
manufacturing process.
In the year of 1995 he achieved the senior engineer title of China Aviation Industrial Corporation.
He looks back on a twenty-seven years working experience in the field of mechanical design, manufacturing and industrial automation.
During his career he worked for thirteen years in one of the China government-owned enterprises and for another fourteen years with large and famous multinational companies. Within this engagement he was also responsible for R&D department.
Rex Lei’s passion is the mechanical design along with a wealth of experience and development knowhow for industrial automation production lines.

The manufacturing systems will ultimately be manufactured and installed as a cooperative effort from multiple ixmation sites.  This first time customer’s name cannot be released due to customer confidentially. ixmation global footprint will allow us to support the long term needs and goals of our customer and has ultimately allowed us to secure this order.

The assembly demands several high precision steps to ensure the absolute denseness of the customer product.
“The good, well organized communication and cooperation between our customer and ixmation made this project successfully and was very satisfying for both.” stated KK Lai, GM of ixmation MALAYSIA.

ltr.:Paul Morach (ixmy-Director of Quality & Knowledge Management), CL Lim (ixmy-Sales Section Head), Jon Ooi (ixmy-Sales Section Manager), Martin Squarra (Customer), Sam Hoe Cheng (Customer), Patrick Peh (Customer), Ismeth Yazmin (Customer), Mohammad Luthfi (Customer), KK Lai (ixmy-General Manager)