This Taiwanese company will celebrate six decades of being a leading player in the manufacture of mechanical and servo presses for metal stamping and punching, machines from 25 to 2,000 metric tons. Seyi (also known as Shieh Yih Machinery Industry), aware of Mexico's manufacturing vocation, opened its representation here in 2015, with headquarters in Monterrey, similar to other facilities it has in the United States, Canada, Germany, Thailand, China and of course Taiwan, from where it designs, innovates, manufactures and exports its machines worldwide, supported by a network of distributors.
Seyi America's regional sales manager is Alberto García, who coordinates Seyi's work in Mexico, the East Coast of the United States and South America from his offices in Los Angeles. "However, Mexico has kept me busy for more than 80% of my work for 11 years, because South America and Brazil, which is the economy on which the region depends, has not fully recovered," says the also administrator, who has grown the company's presence in Mexico with an administrative team, specialized technicians and salespeople.
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Just as García admits that 2020 was a very difficult year, and that the outlook improved in 2021, he also boasts that "in the first quarter of 2022 we are already at the top of our workload". The recovery for this company, which by the way has been an active participant in different editions of FABTECH, is a fact. He explains that the expo helps them to identify small and medium-sized companies that may not appear in databases, directories or even on websites.
"Yes, we have had the opportunity to meet companies that we did not know before, they came with their drawings and asked how we could make such and such a part. After the basic questions regarding the type of tonnage, strength and design needed, we went (even during the expo) to the factory, to learn how they manage their processes, and we started the engineering work," says Seyi's regional manager.
Although the Taiwanese company handles a range of products with wide tonnage ranges, serving large manufacturers such as John Deere, Ford or Tesla, they also offer smaller tonnage presses for those plants that do not have a national or international range, i.e. companies called contractors or stampers that manufacture parts for assemblers such as GM, or home appliance giants such as Mabe.
"The personal proximity generated at the fair gives us the opportunity to show these customers what servo technology is, what Seyi does in Industry 4.0, which is a very strong trend and which, curiously, is the technology that Mexican industry is requesting more than U.S. industry. There are more requirements from Mexico," reveals García.
For Seyi, 4.0 technology is used to increase productivity, understand which are the low and high points of operation in the machines, the best time to give maintenance, among many other details. "It helps to be clear about the costs of each part, how much time it is costing to make each part in terms of lubrication, material, labor, how many hours to make so many parts with all the changes in the machines in terms of change of materials, dies, shift, etc.," explains Alberto Garcia.
Seyi will present at FABTECH a star product, the 80-ton straight-sided servo press, a connecting rod, ideal for whoever is willing to understand the company's servo technology. "They will be able to see what the construction of the machine is like, its hull or frame, the advantages of the servo motor, since Seyi owns and designs the motors, and also the control of the press, useful for changing different profiles, from a normal one to one with a deep-drawn type, or to be running the press faster on a pendulum profile. When we see it, we will explain how it works," promises the regional manager.