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December 2012

Issue 02, Vol.I

Bi-monthly E-Journal

Editor: Muhammad Abu Hichme | Email: press@motabaqah.com | 300 Readers | Free Distribution & Not for Sale

EVPs Word
objectives for Motabaqah which are having full commitment towards control quality by achieving the highest degree of accuracy in testing and calibration for all referred products related to the specific labs. We have already succeeded in achieving this objective through the following: 1. The high efficiency of all our technical staffs in the various cities of the kingdom were selected carefully based on their technical experience and high qualifications. 2. Strict procedures in controlling quality through very qualified quality managers. 3. Participation in proficiency tests with specialized authorities each in their respective fields. 4. Striving hardly for Global Accreditation of Motabaqahs Labs. from other parties with full membership in the World Organization for Labs. Accreditation (ILAC). 5. Keeping up with all updates & trends in the field of Laboratories and conducting training for technicians staff to keep abreast of developments and progressing in this field. In conclusion we need all the support and team work to maintain our striving to excellence for a better tomorrow, good luck. Enjoy your journal,
Prof. Saleh S. Sedrani EVP

Dearest colleagues,

llow me to start by thanking all of you for your continuous efforts & achievements. I would like to bring to your attention some of our main

Motabaqah at SEEFE

rom the 24th 27th of Nov. 2012 Motabaqah participated in the Saudi Electricity Efficiency Forum & Exhibition as the Golden Sponsor. Post the official commencement by the main organizer, VIP's & Ministers, the exhibition opened its doors from 8am 2pm and from 4pm 8pm at Al Khozama Conference Center to the corporate public.

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Motabaqah had a 27 meter squared booth promoting its corporate services and most importantly promoting its Electrical & MCVL Labs whom were the major players in the forum due to the exhibitions environment, corporate participants, audience and visitors. It was a great opportunity to meeting with new clients and business's.

Interviews
Interview with Mr. Frank Urban (General Manager, Operations & Strategic Development)
to work with open door policy to achieve quick decision making and problem resolutions. That often means anyone can access me at any time unannounced. Often leading to my shortlist being re-prioritized by constant events/consultations and decision makings. The second half of the day tend to focus on my second role and tasks/projects related to Strategic Developments. That usually includes consultation with, or reporting to top management (MD or EVP) and follow up with potential international partners. Either preparing the minutes of past activities or planning for future meetings and negotiations. When time permits I revert to responses/decision-making on the piled up some 100-200 emails daily. Until 16:00PM when I am virtually being "carried out" from the office by our friendly "bodyguard" responsible for office closure. Since I mostly skip lunch, I just stick with two Turkish coffees and cold waters daily, consistently delivered by our friendly and competent tea boy, I am starving by the time I get home at 16.30PM. The multitasking to prepare and consume the food of my liking typically ends by 18:00PM when I revert to my bellowed BlackBerry to check messages and emails. Often leading to getting stuck back into to my webmail to respond or clarify issues of importance. I am trying to clear out all work related tasks I didn`t mange during the day. I rarely do more after 21:00PM when I prefer to check the news and try to clear my mind for the challenges of the next day. Leading to a bedtime ~23.00PM when the noise and multitasking has to stop. Tell us about your department? The most exciting department in the entire company comprising of soon to be 14 laboratories. More importantly the selection of some 200 talented and motivated technical specialists keen to do better every day. The Operations is the heart and the engine room of the Motabaqah ship doing an

Please give us a brief about a typical day from the time you wake up till the time for bed? ultitasking starts already 5.38AM in the morning, checking my BlackBerry for notes/ email, while simultaneously doing all the morning chores, getting ready for work. Quick chat with family over Skype before a brief trip to office or the labs. The office work starts with focus on Operational responsibilities before lunchtime. Reviewing and responding to emails and preparing a short list of tasks for the day to accomplish. I prefer

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extraordinary important job, to screen unwanted and unsafe products and materials entering the country. Hence our team is not just simply doing their work, but are also building stakeholder trust and contributing to the overall safety and wellbeing of the entire nation, which is a rather enviable task we should all be proud of. If any, what changes would you like your dept. to have? More time and energy for our teams to look ahead more and plan forward more to reduce surprises and uncertainties that constant firefighting and problem resolutions on the run create (due to our rapid growth pace). As well as more perseverance. As they say in confrontation between the river and the rocks, the river always wins Not through strength but by perseverance. If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why? Introduce performance pay to reward our best performing team members and stimulate others to follow with the aim for higher and higher performance/output.

What do you think is the secret of achievement? Team effort in an open and empowered working environment where problem resolution and decision making is done on the level in the organization where core competencies for the tasks are positioned. With stricter focus on achieving the agreed tasks and goals just in time every time. Any experiences you would like to share for readers to benefit from? Personal Management tips...10 Suggestions to Create Balance in Your Life Your happiness should be your chief aim in life, so make a decision today, to strive for a continual state of happiness. After all, if you are not happy, you can't make anyone else happy at work or at home. Here are some valuable points to help guide you towards your destination. 1. 85% of your happiness comes from your interactions with other people. Conversely, have you ever noticed how most of your unhappy problems come with

2 legs and hair on top! The key to happiness is to therefore recognise the importance of learning necessary communication skills to help you get along with people. 2. Moderation in all things. 3. Begin with your values. 4. Determine your ideal situation. 5. Stress and dissatisfaction arise when your activities and goals on the outside are not congruent with your values. 6. To do more of one thing, you must do less of others. 7. Treat your time like money. 8. Set peace of mind as your highest goal. Then organise all your time and life around it. 9. Learn to recognise and listen to your intuition, your inner voice. 10. The key to balance is just two things - your work and family. Please feel free to dropping by my office for further details on my 10 listed points :)

Abdullah Al Bogami (Lab Manager - Petroleum Testing Lab Dammam, KSA)

in 1999 to get the BS degree in Science and spent about 11 years in Saudi Aramco plus two years in SABIC before joining MOTABAQAH in 2012. I got married in 2004 and I have two daughters and one little son. Usually, during my spare time I read in literature and poetry. Please tell us about yourself (Education, Major accomplishments, Hobbies, Interest & family)? How do you see your Lab shaping this near future? It is one of the important departments in our company and has a bright and promising future. Togetherness and working hand in hand will lead inevitably to success. What is your fear in life? I am always thinking about my kids. So, health of my children and their future is my major fear in life. What do you think is the key for accomplishments? Fear of Allah and satisfaction of what is written for you then comes the teamwork. Any suggestions you like to give your colleagues at Motabaqah? Always act like an owner. This will make you more productive.

was involved in a sponsorship program with Saudi Aramco

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Corporate News
Motabaqah and AsureQuality contract signing
otabaqah signed a strategic partnership agreement with the New Zealand Government owned Testing, Certification and Training organization AsureQuality. See www.asurequality.com AsureQuality with 1700 employees in New Zealand and several Asian countries is specialized on securing safety and conformity of all food and agricultural related products and management process. The new agreement will enable both organizations to fully utilize its own capabilities and better service the Kingdom of Saudi Now officially MOTABAQAH is Megger Authorized Service Center, MOTABAQAH has the right to advertise itself as repair and service of Megger products after signing the agreement. Congratulation for all MOTABAQAH in specific to the MCVL.

Arabia and eventually the GCC region. Motabaqah will provide the Liaison office for AsureQuality, who will lead the development of the new joint Food Microbiology and Chemistry laboratory in Dammam.

Motabaqah during the Saudi Electricity Efficiency Forum & Exhibition (SEEFE) contract signing and media gathering on the 13th of Nov. 2012.

Motabaqah signs with Waldner Co. to design all its Laboratories furniture.

Exhibition commenced on the 24th of Nov. 2012 27th Nov. 2012.

G-Mark market launch in HK/China

n preparation for the G-Mark market launch in HK/China and later Saudi, Motabaqah held a training course conducted by Mr. Abdul Salam Bin Yaesha for its technicians and some of its management team in the Head Office on the 11th & 12th of November 2012 (11/11/2012) The training on the 1st day covered GSO & Gulf Regulatory System for Safety Monitoring introduction & Product safety legal framework. Introducing the Toys Gulf Regulation main

otabaqah exclusively appointed Waldner Co. with its specialized and reputable German designers to design and manufacture all its laboratories furniture in KSA. Contract signed on the 14th of Nov. 2012 with HE Prof. Saleh S. Sedrani EVP of Motabaqah.

requirements, changes & its Annex II for Safety requirements. Chemical Requirements, phthalates & CMRs as well as Conformity Assessment Requirements under Toys regulation. The training 2nd day covered Manufacturer's CAP, Importers

CAP and developing a conformity assessment procedure by the notified body.

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Social & staff news

Motabaqah Eid Al-Adha gathering at the Head Office during the first week after their holidays
H.E. Ghanium, N. Al Bagmy (CEO) and Prof. Saleh H. Sedrani (EVP) greeted and welcomed the attendees for brunch. Eid travels, fun stories were exchanged amongst employees while enjoying their tidbits & juices.

Amir Sajid qualifies in the ASNT

Destructive Testing) Level-III Exams for Radiographic Testing, and Magnetic Particle Testing which was held in Bahrain b/w 6-8 October 2012. Around 50 professionals from around the world have participated in this exam. Amir Sajjad already has ASNT level-III certification in Ultrasonic Testing, and CSWIP-3.1 certification awarded by TWI (The Welding Institute) UK. He is also a member of the American society for Non-Destructive Testing.

Raffle draw for the SEEFE event

Amir Sajjad Tech Manager NDT Lab have participated and successfully qualified in the ASNT (American Society for Non-

EPTL gathering in RUH Electrical Lab

r. Frank Urban General Manager for Operations & Strategic Development congratulated and handed the lucky winner Mr. Lotfi B. S Chaouachi from KSA Al Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University College of engineering the ipad which he won during Motabaqah's business card raffle draw for the SEEFE event.

On the 4th of Nov. 2012 a small gathering was held for Motabaqah EPTL employees in the Electrical Lab in Riyadh.

Fun stories were exchanged amongst the colleagues whilst enjoying their tidbits & juices.

General Interest
People are now being expected to fit many more jobs into their roles. We have weathered the downturn, said goodbye to many colleagues, but who is left to do all their work? Welcome to the world of extreme multi-tasking, where fewer staff must juggle a multitude of tasks to achieve the same level of productivity. Many employees are being expected to squeeze many more functions into their jobs and as Anne Kadet writes in Smart Money, its pretty much the way of the future. Companies' new solutions to staffing and budget shortfalls

often look surprisingly makeshift, with engineers going on sales calls, accountants pitching in on customer service and CFOs running a division on the side,'' Kadet writes. "And some believe the shift is

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permanent, as the quickening pace of change demands more flexibility from everyone at the office. Management consultant Rich Moran, whose clients have included Apple and AT&T, says

many employees will do whatever it takes to help their company compete: Job descriptions are written in sand, and the wind is blowing. Some workplace experts say the super job is the logical

next step in management's quest to make the workplace more costefficient. The latest shift started when businesses redistributed the workload over a smaller pool of employees.

Success story
A famous businessman
MUSHARAKAH with the bank.. After the approval, he paid his share (50%) and left. I asked our market surveyor to bring three invoices to choose the lowest one to buy the goods which mentioned in this MUSHARAKAH contract.. Next day I informed the businessman about the prices, then he approved the lowest prices and the bank purchased the goods from him. I visited his store and he handed over the keys after the bank agreed to pay him the monthly rent for the store. Six months later the bank and the businessman decided to liquidate the MUSHARAKAH and we asked our market surveyor to bring three invoices to choose the highest ones, I was surprised that yet again he provided the highest prices, received the value of the goods from the bank and kept the goods in his store as is. Of course, the settlement included his share of the profit and store rent in addition to his management share as an additional benefit. Although the execution of this Islamic transaction is 100% correct, still I am confused if that type of business between the bank and the businessman is an Islamic transaction or just a pledge of goods... from that time I found out a very important principle that there is always a gap between the practice and theory.. By the way that businessman was an illiterate man.

Ali Mohamed Ali The Chief Accountant One day in 1992 a famous businessman walked into the bank where I use to work in Khartoum and asked for an Islamic

Training
Nikon Tomography Training was held on 01/10/2012 38DL plus training in our RUH NDT lab
Training was conducted by a German instructor attended by Motabaqah's Technicians. MOTABAQAH NDT Lab has acquired X-Ray Tomography Machine in its X-ray Lab. The XT H 225/320 LC features a powerful microfocus X-ray source that is able to run highly accurate inspection on dense industrial objects. The applications include but not limited to the followings. Cracks and Failure Analysis, Composites, Rocks/Minerals, Metallurgy, Metal Manufacturing, Plastic Manufacturing, Aircraft Component Inspection, Die and Mould Applications, Automotive Components Inspection, Mobile phones, shavers & watches , Streamlining vehicle preproduction, Household appliances and white goods, Cosmetics, Dental applications, Automated measurement, Critical assemblies of medical devices or drug delivery systems, Damage propagation in composite material, Metal corrosion mechanisms, Unveiling mysteries of nature, Implant research, Manual examination.

On the 08-11-2012 Motabaqah NDT Lab completed its training on 38DL PLUS Thickness Gage equipment. The 38DL PLUS is an advanced ultrasonic thickness gage which uses dual element transducer for internally corroded applications, features include THRU-COAT and Echo-to-Echo. It uses a single element transducers for a very precise thickness measurements of thin, very thick, or multilayer

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EPOCH Training

n 07-11-2012 Motabaqah NDT Lab completed a training on its EPOCH XT Ultrasonic Flaw Detector equipment .The EPOCH XT is an advanced, portable ultrasonic flaw detector which offers many standard measurement features.

Motabaqah New employee

Mr. Samir AbdulKareem Al-Marzog Receptionist. Vehicle testing laboratory Mr. Mohammed Margani Saeed Payroll Supervisor Mr. Mohammed Kesra Data Entry Mr. Manickam Thanneermalai Calibration Engineer MCVL Laboratory - Riyadh. Mr. Abdullah Mohammad Reshood Marketing Specialist AlMr. Nasser Mahde Al-Baqmy Customer Service Representative - Batha Mr. Abdulmajeed Suliman Al-Anezi Customer Service Representative - Al-Hadethah . Mr. Noor Arab Khan Building Materials Technical Manager Riyadh complex Mr. Abdulaziz Mohammed AlYahya CEO Assistant For Finance & Administration Mr. Farid Abdullah Al-Ferdaws Riyadh Complex Facilities Manager & Property Control

Human Facts
The brain doesnt feel pain, even though the brain processes pain signals, the brain itself does not actually feel pain. Your nose remembers 50,000 scents: It is possible for your nose to identify and remember more than 50,000 smells. A sneeze can exceed 100 mph: When a sneeze leaves your body, it does so at high speeds so you should avoid suppressing it and causing damage to your body.

Wise words
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
~Albert Einstein

WISE WORDS
Save yourselves from envy. For envy eats up virtue as fire eats up wood.
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) Hadith of Abu Dawud on the authority of Abu Hurayrah

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

~African Proverb

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes

Scratch your brain

1. Gift Sponsors 2. Lighter than what I am made of, More of me is hidden Than is seen. Three lives have I. Gentle enough to soothe the skin, Light enough to caress the sky, Hard enough to crack rocks.

Previous Edition Winners

1. Answer: Darkness Winner: Robby Blanco
Quality Manager - Petroleum Testing Laboratory

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Answer : Hole Winner : Cecilio Balmes Jr.

Storekeeper

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