International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science

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International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science
AbbreviationIFToMM
FormationSeptember 29, 1969
FoundersI. Artobolevski, E. Crossley, and others.
Founded at Zakopane
Type NGO
Legal statusInternational Federation
Purpose Professional Cooperation
Region served
World
Membership44 member organizations
Secretary General
Erwin Christian Lovasz
President
Andrés Kecskeméthy
Vice-President
Fernando Viadero
Website iftomm-world.org

International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM) is an organization that supports international exchange of researchers and engineers from the wide range of discipline related to Mechanical Engineering.

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Mission

To promote research and development in the field of Machines and Mechanisms by theoretical and experimental methods, along with their practical application.

History

It was on September 29, 1969 at the Second World Congress on Theory of Mechanisms and Machines which took place in Zakopane (Poland), that two scientists, Ivan Artobolevski (USSR) and Erskine Crossley (USA), proposed to establish an International Federation of scientists and engineers to facilitate worldwide collaboration. [1] [2] Representatives of 13 countries signed the foundation act and the International Federation for the Theory of Machines (IFToMM) came into existence. [3] The initial Member Organizations were represented by:

Given the expansion of the topics within the IFToMM umbrella, [4] [5] [6] [7] in 1999, the Executive Council decided to recognize the changing role of the organization in international collaboration and approved a new name: "The International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science". However, the Executive Council considered that the abbreviation IFToMM was already widely used, and therefore suggested to keep it (along with the logo) as a short version of the organization's name. [8]

Officers, Presidents, and General Secretaries

IFToMM officers are the Chairs of IFToMM Member Organizations, the Chairs of Permanent Commissions and Technical Committees, as well as the members of the Executive Council. A complete historical list of IFToMM officers was published in the Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms HMM2004. [9]

The Presidents were:

The Secretaries General were:

Meetings

List of all IFToMM World congresses:

World CongressHost Institution(s)Host Country (City)DatesNo. of papersNo. of countries represented
1st IFToMM World CongressBulgaria (Varna)September 27–30, 196564 (4 volumes)14
2nd IFToMM World CongressPoland (Zakopane)September 23–27, 196966 (3 volumes)12
3rd IFToMM World CongressYugoslavia (Kupari)September 1971198 (8 volumes)22
4th IFToMM World CongressUnited Kingdom (Newcastle upon Tyne)September 8–12, 1975230 (5 volumes)28
5th IFToMM World CongressCanada (Montreal)July 8–13, 1979350 (2 volumes)34
6th IFToMM World CongressIndia (New Delhi)December 15–20, 1983338 (2 volumes)35
7th IFToMM World CongressSpain (Seville)September 17–22, 1987417 (3 volumes)38
8th IFToMM World CongressCzechoslovakia (Prague)August 26–31, 1991359 (6 volumes)40
9th IFToMM World CongressItaly (Milan)August 29 – September 5, 1995665 (3 volumes)51
10th IFToMM World CongressFinland (Oulu)June 20–24, 1999628 (7 volumes)50
11th IFToMM World CongressChina (Tianjin)April 1–4, 2004 [a] 491 (5 volumes)43
12th IFToMM World CongressFrance (Besançon)June 17–20, 2007535 (digital proceedings)52
13th IFToMM World Congress Universidad de Guanajuato Mexico (Guanajuato)June 19–25, 2011309 (digital proceedings)43
14th IFToMM World Congress National Taiwan University [10] [11] Taiwan (Taipei)October 25–30, 2015559 (digital proceedings)47
15th IFToMM World Congress AGH University of Science and Technology Poland (Kraków)June 30–July 4, 2019 [12] [13] 457 (digital proceedings)66
16th IFToMM World Congress Japanese council of IFToMM Tokyo (Japan)November 5–10, 2023 [b]

Notes

aPostponed from August 18–21, 2003, due to SARS.
bDecided at the IFToMM General Assembly on July 3, 2019 (Krakow, Poland).

Members

Membership in IFToMM is not individual. Instead, it is by Member Organization (MO) which are akin to national or territorial organizations. A full list of Member Organizations available on the IFToMM web site. Each MO has its own individual or group membership rules.

As of the 2015 General Assembly held in Taipei (Taiwan), IFToMM had 47 MOs. In 2018, the membership went down to 45 MOs.

Current MOs in IFToMM
Flag of Armenia.svg Armenia
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia
Flag of Austria.svg Austria
Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijan
Flag of Belarus.svg Belarus
Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil (ABCM)
Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada (CCToMM)
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China [China-Beijing]
Flag of the Republic of China.svg Taiwan [China-Taipei]
Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark
Flag of Finland.svg Finland
Flag of France.svg France (CFToMM)
Flag of Georgia.svg Georgia
Flag of Germany.svg Germany
Flag of Greece.svg Greece
Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary
Flag of India.svg India (AMM India)
Flag of Israel.svg Israel
Flag of Italy.svg Italy (ItaMMMS)
Flag of Japan.svg Japan (Jc-IFToMM)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan
Flag of Korea (1899).svg Korea
Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania
Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
Flag of Peru.svg Peru
Flag of Poland.svg Poland (PK TMM Archived 2015-11-20 at the Wayback Machine )
Flag of Portugal (official).svg Portugal
Flag of Romania.svg Romania
Flag of Russia.svg Russia
Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia
Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore
Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia
Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia
Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia (ATM)
Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey
Flag of the United States.svg United States of America
Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam
Former MOs in IFToMM
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium
Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana
Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt
Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia
Flag of North Macedonia.svg Macedonia
Flag of Moldova.svg Moldova
Flag of Mongolia.svg Mongolia
Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand
Flag of Norway.svg Norway
Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine
Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela

Organizational structure

The organizational structure of IFToMM includes following bodies

General Assembly

The General Assembly is the supreme body of the Federation that determines policy. It is composed of the Chief Delegates of IFToMM Members and members of the Executive Council.

Executive Council

The Executive Council is responsible for managing the affairs of the Federation between the sessions of the General Assembly. The Executive Council includes the President, Vice-President, Secretary-General, Treasurer, and six ordinary members.

Commissions and Committees

There are four Permanent Commissions (PCs) and 14 Technical Committees (TCs) established under IFToMM supervision. Each Permanent Commission and Technical Committee is composed of a Chairperson, appointed by the Executive Council, and a Secretary and members, nominated by the Chairperson and appointed by the Executive Council. The general goals for the work of the Commissions and Committees are aimed at promoting their fields of interest by attracting researchers and practitioners, including young individuals. The four PCs are:

While the 14 TCs are:

See also

References

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  2. Angeles, J.; Bianchi, G.; Bessonov, A. P.; Mauder, L.; Morecki, A.; Roth, B. (2004). "A History of IFToMM". (Chapter 2 in) Proceedings of HMM2004- the Second IFToMM International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms. Kluwer (Dordrecht). pp. 25–125.
  3. Crossley, F. R. E. (1991). "The early days of IFToMM". Proceedings of 8th IFToMM World Congress. Prague. pp. 4–9.
  4. Morecki, A. (1995). "Past present and future of IFToMM". Mechanism and Machine Theory. 30: 1–9. doi:10.1016/0094-114X(94)00042-J.
  5. Morecki, A. (1999). "International friendly thinkers organization (who like) Machines and Mechanisms (IFToMM) – Where are we going?". Proceedings of the 10th IFToMM World Congress. Oulu, Finland: IFToMM.
  6. Crossley, F. R. E. (1970). "The International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms". Journal of Mechanisms. 5 (2): 133–145. doi:10.1016/0022-2569(70)90018-2.
  7. Ceccarelli, M. (2011). "Activity and Trends in MMS from IFToMM community". Role of MMS and IFToMM in Technology Development. Series on Machines and Machine Science. Vol. 1. Springer (Dordrecht). pp. 3–24. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1300-0_1.
  8. "History of IFToMM". iftomm.org. Retrieved 2012-08-16.
  9. Angeles, J.; Bianchi, G.; Bessonov, A. P.; Mauder, L.; Morecki, A.; Roth, B. (2004). "A History of IFToMM". (Chapter 2 in) Proceedings of HMM2004- the Second IFToMM International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms. Kluwer (Dordrecht). pp. 25–125.
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  12. "15th IFToMM World Congress". 15th IFToMM World Congress (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2018-02-27. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
  13. IFToMM (August 26, 2017). "IFToMM World Congress". iftomm.net. Retrieved 2018-02-27.

The new official website https://iftomm-world.org/ replaced the old legacy website http://www.iftomm.net/ in early 2021. The legacy website is kept online for now to insure information availability.