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{{Infobox organization
|name = International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science
|image = IFToMM logo.png
|image_border =
|size = 186px
|caption = English language logo of the IFToMM
|map = Map highlighting IFToMM Member Organizations.svg
|msize =
|mcaption = [[#Members|List of members]]
|abbreviation = IFToMM
|motto =
|formation = September 29, 1969
|founding_location = [[Zakopane]]
|founders = I. Artobolevski, E. Crossley, and others.
|type = [[NGO]]
|status = International Federation
|purpose = [[Professional Cooperation]]
|headquarters =
|location =
|leader_title = President
|leader_name = Andrés Kecskeméthy
|leader_title2 = Vice-President
|leader_name2 = Fernando Viadero
|sec_gen = Erwin Christian Lovasz
|website = {{URL|https://iftomm-world.org/}}
|region_served = World
|membership = 44 member organizations
}}
'''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]].
==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, 1969m at the Second World Congress on Theory of Mechanisms and Machines which took place in Zakopane (Poland), that two scientists, [[Artobolevski, Ivan Ivanovich|Ivan Artobolevski]] (USSR) and Erskine Crossley (USA), proposed to establish an International Federation of scientists and engineers to facilitate worldwide collaboration.<ref>
{{cite conference
| title = Mechanism and Machine Science: its history and its identity
| last1 = Koetsier
| first1 = T.
| date = 2000
| publisher = Kluwer (Dordrecht)
| book-title = Proc. of HMM2000 - the First IFToMM International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms
| pages = 5–24
| location =
}}
</ref>
<ref>
{{cite conference
| title = A History of IFToMM
| last1 = Angeles
| first1 = J.
| last2 = Bianchi
| first2 = G.
| last3 = Bessonov
| first3 = A. P.
| last4 = Mauder
| first4 = L.
| last5 = Morecki
| first5 = A.
| last6 = Roth
| first6 = B.
| date = 2004
| publisher = Kluwer (Dordrecht)
| book-title = (Chapter 2 in) Proceedings of HMM2004- the Second IFToMM International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms
| pages = 25–125
}}
</ref> Representatives of 13 countries signed the foundation act and the International Federation for the Theory of Machines (IFToMM) came into existence.<ref>
{{cite conference
| title = The early days of IFToMM
| last1 = Crossley
| first1 = F. R. E.
| date = 1991
| book-title = Proceedings of 8th IFToMM World Congress
| pages = 4–9
| location = Prague
}}
</ref> The initial Member Organizations were represented by:
* Academician Ivan I. Artobolevski (USSR),
* Prof. Erskine F.R. Crossley (USA),
* Prof. Michael S. Konstantinov (Bulgaria),
* Dr. Werner Thomas (GFR),
* Prof. B.M. Belgaumkar (India),
* Prof. [[Kenneth H. Hunt]] (Australia),
* Prof. J. Oderfeld (Poland),
* Prof. Jack Phillips (Australia),
* Prof. George Rusanov (Bulgaria),
* Prof. Wolfgang Rössner (GDR),
* Prof. Zènò Terplàn (Hungary),
* Prof. Jammi S. Rao (India),
* Prof. Giovanni Bianchi (Italy),
* Prof. Adam Morecki (Poland),
* [[List of members of the Romanian Academy|Nicolae I. Manolescu]] (Romania),
* Leonard Maunder (UK),
* Douglas Muster (USA),
* Ilic Branisky (Yugoslavia).
Given the expansion of the topics within the IFToMM umbrella,<ref>{{cite journal
|last1= Morecki
|first1= A.
|date= 1995
|title= Past present and future of IFToMM
|journal= Mechanism and Machine Theory
|volume= 30
|pages= 1–9
|doi= 10.1016/0094-114X(94)00042-J
}}
</ref>
<ref>
{{cite conference
| title = International friendly thinkers organization (who like) Machines and Mechanisms (IFToMM) – Where are we going?
| last1 = Morecki
| first1 = A.
| date = 1999
| publisher = IFToMM
| book-title = Proceedings of the 10th IFToMM World Congress
| location = Oulu, Finland
}}
</ref>
<ref>
{{cite journal
|last1= Crossley
|first1= F. R. E.
|date= 1970
|title= The International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms
|journal= Journal of Mechanisms
|volume= 5
|issue= 2
|pages= 133–145
|doi= 10.1016/0022-2569(70)90018-2
}}
</ref>
<ref>
{{cite conference
| title = Activity and Trends in MMS from IFToMM community
| last1 = Ceccarelli
| first1 = M.
| date = 2011
| publisher = Springer (Dordrecht)
| book-title = Role of MMS and IFToMM in Technology Development
| pages = 3–24
| volume = 1
| series = Series on Machines and Machine Science
|doi= 10.1007/978-94-007-1300-0_1
}}
</ref> 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.
<ref>
{{cite web
| url = http://www.iftomm.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8&catid=7&Itemid=112
| title = History of IFToMM
| publisher = iftomm.org
| accessdate = 2012-08-16}}</ref>
=== 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.<ref>
{{cite conference
| title = A History of IFToMM
| last1 = Angeles
| first1 = J.
| last2 = Bianchi
| first2 = G.
| last3 = Bessonov
| first3 = A. P.
| last4 = Mauder
| first4 = L.
| last5 = Morecki
| first5 = A.
| last6 = Roth
| first6 = B.
| date = 2004
| publisher = Kluwer (Dordrecht)
| book-title = (Chapter 2 in) Proceedings of HMM2004- the Second IFToMM International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms
| pages = 25–125
}}
</ref>
The Presidents were:
* [[Artobolevski, Ivan Ivanovich|Ivan I. Artobolevskii]] (USSR),
* Leonard Maunder (United Kingdom),
* Bernard Roth (USA),
* Giovanni Bianchi (Italy),
* Adam Morecki (Poland),
* Jorge Angeles (Canada),
* Kenneth J. Waldron (USA),
* Marco Ceccarelli (Italy),
* Yoshihiko Nakamura (Japan),
* Marco Ceccarelli (Italy) (repeated),  and
* Andrés Kecskeméthy (Germany).
The Secretaries General were:
* M.S. Konstantinov (Bulgaria),
* Emil Stanchev (Bulgaria),
* Adam Morecki (Poland),
* Elizabeth Filemon (Hungary),
* Ladislav Půst (Czechoslovakia),
* Tatu Leinonen (Finland),
* Marco Ceccarelli (Italy),
* Teresa Zielinska (Poland) (two terms), and
* Erwin Christian Lovasz (Romania).
==Meetings==
*IFToMM General Assembly: every 4 years
*Executive Council Meeting: an annual meeting of the members of Executive Council
*IFToMM World Congress: every four years
List of all IFToMM World congresses:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! World Congress            !! Host Institution(s) !! Host Country (City) !! Dates
!No. of papers
!data-sort-type="number"|No. of countries represented
|-
| data-sort-value="001"|1st IFToMM World Congress
|
| Bulgaria (Varna)
| data-sort-value="1965"|September 27–30, 1965
| data-sort-value="0064"|64 (4 volumes)
| 14
|-
| data-sort-value="002"|2nd IFToMM World Congress
|
| Poland (Zakopane)
| data-sort-value="1969"|September 23–27, 1969
| data-sort-value="0066"|66 (3 volumes)
| 12
|-
| data-sort-value="003"|3rd IFToMM World Congress
|
| Yugoslavia (Kupari)
| data-sort-value="1971"|September 1971
| data-sort-value="0198"|198 (8 volumes)
| 22
|-
| data-sort-value="004"|4th IFToMM World Congress
|
| United Kingdom (Newcastle upon Tyne)
| data-sort-value="1975"|September 8–12, 1975
| data-sort-value="0230"|230 (5 volumes)
| 28
|-
| data-sort-value="005"|5th IFToMM World Congress
|
| Canada (Montreal)
| data-sort-value="1979"|July 8–13, 1979
| data-sort-value="0350"|350 (2 volumes)
|34
|-
| data-sort-value="006"|6th IFToMM World Congress
|
| India (New Delhi)
| data-sort-value="1983"|December 15–20, 1983
| data-sort-value="0338"|338 (2 volumes)
| 35
|-
| data-sort-value="007"|7th IFToMM World Congress
|
| Spain (Seville)
| data-sort-value="1987"|September 17–22, 1987
| data-sort-value="0417"|417 (3 volumes)
| 38
|-
| data-sort-value="008"|8th IFToMM World Congress
|
| Czechoslovakia (Prague)
| data-sort-value="1991"|August 26–31, 1991
| data-sort-value="0359"|359 (6 volumes)
| 40
|-
| data-sort-value="009"|9th IFToMM World Congress
|
| Italy (Milan)
| data-sort-value="1995"|August 29 – September 5, 1995
| data-sort-value="0665"|665 (3 volumes)
| 51
|-
| data-sort-value="010"|10th IFToMM World Congress
|
| Finland (Oulu)
| data-sort-value="1999"|June 20–24, 1999
| data-sort-value="0628"|628 (7 volumes)
| 50
|-
| data-sort-value="011"|11th IFToMM World Congress
|
| China (Tianjin)
| data-sort-value="2004"|April 1–4, 2004 {{ref label|WC11_postponed|a}}
| 491 (5 volumes)
| 43
|-
| data-sort-value="012"|12th IFToMM World Congress
|
| France (Besançon)
| data-sort-value="2007"|June 17–20, 2007
| data-sort-value="0535"|535 (digital proceedings)
| 52
|-
| data-sort-value="013"|13th IFToMM World Congress
| [[Universidad de Guanajuato]]
| Mexico (Guanajuato)
| data-sort-value="2011"|June 19–25, 2011
| data-sort-value="0309"|309 (digital proceedings)
| 43
|-
| data-sort-value="014"|14th IFToMM World Congress
| [[National Taiwan University]]<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2011/07/05/308655/Taiwan-to.htm
|title=2015 International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM) World Congress
|date=July 5, 2011
|work=The China Post
|accessdate=1 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=170109&ctNode=445
|title=NTU gears up for 2015 mechanism and machine congress
|date=July 5, 2011
|work=Taiwan Today
|accessdate=1 September 2012
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235042/http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=170109&ctNode=445
|archive-date=3 March 2016
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>
| Taiwan (Taipei)
| data-sort-value="2015"|October 25–30, 2015
| data-sort-value="0559"|559 (digital proceedings)
| 47
|-
| data-sort-value="015"|15th IFToMM World Congress
| [[AGH University of Science and Technology]]
| Poland (Kraków)
| data-sort-value="2019"|June 30–July 4, 2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://iftomm2019.com/|title=15th IFToMM World Congress|last=|first=|date=|website=15th IFToMM World Congress|language=pl-PL|access-date=2018-02-27|archive-date=2018-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227164701/http://iftomm2019.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://iftomm.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=132&Itemid=212|title=IFToMM World Congress|last=IFToMM|date=August 26, 2017|website=iftomm.net|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-02-27}}</ref>
| 457 (digital proceedings)
| 66
|-
| data-sort-value="016"|16th IFToMM World Congress
| [http://www.jc-iftomm.org/english/ Japanese council of IFToMM]
| Tokyo (Japan)
| data-sort-value="2023"|November 5–10, 2023 {{ref label|WC16_postponed|b}}
|
|
|}
== Notes ==
:{{note label|WC11_postponed|a}}Postponed from August 18–21, 2003, due to [[SARS]].
:{{note label|WC16_postponed|b}}Decided 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 [http://www.iftomm.net/index.php?option=com_iftommmembers&view=countries 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.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="float:right; clear:right; margin-left:1ex; border:1px solid gray; padding:0.7ex; background-color:white;"
! Current MOs in IFToMM
|-
|{{flag|Armenia}}
|-
|{{flag|Australia}}
|-
|{{flag|Austria}}
|-
|{{flag|Azerbaijan}}
|-
|{{flag|Belarus}}
|-
|{{flag|Brazil}} ([http://www.abcm.org.br/ ABCM])
|-
|{{flag|Bulgaria}}
|-
|{{flag|Canada}} ([[Canadian Committee for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms|CCToMM]])
|-
|{{flag|China}} [China-Beijing]
|-
|{{flag|Taiwan}} [China-Taipei]
|-
|{{flag|Croatia}}
|-
|{{flag|Czech Republic}}
|-
|{{flag|Denmark}}
|-
|{{flag|Finland}}
|-
|{{flag|France}} ([http://www-sop.inria.fr/coprin/IFTOMM/Comite_Francais/ CFToMM])
|-
|{{flag|Georgia}}
|-
|{{flag|Germany}}
|-
|{{flag|Greece}}
|-
|{{flag|Hungary}}
|-
|{{flag|India}} ([http://www.ammindia.org/ AMM India])
|-
|{{flag|Israel}}
|-
|{{flag|Italy}} ([http://wpage.unina.it/dellaval/GMA/GMA_home.htm ItaMMMS])
|-
|{{flag|Japan}} ([http://www.jc-iftomm.org/english/ Jc-IFToMM])
|-
|{{flag|Kazakhstan}}
|-
|{{flag|Korea}}
|-
|{{flag|Lithuania}}
|-
|{{flag|Mexico}}
|-
|{{flag|Netherlands}}
|-
|{{flag|Peru}}
|-
|{{flag|Poland}} ([http://www.tmm.ath.bielsko.pl/ PK TMM] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120012647/http://www.tmm.ath.bielsko.pl/ |date=2015-11-20 }})
|-
|{{flag|Portugal}}
|-
|{{flag|Romania}}
|-
|{{flag|Russia}}
|-
|{{flag|Serbia}}
|-
|{{flag|Singapore}}
|-
|{{flag|Slovakia}}
|-
|{{flag|Slovenia}}
|-
|{{flag|Spain}}
|-
|{{flag|Switzerland}}
|-
|{{flag|Tunisia}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140108113749/http://www.tunimec.tn/ ATM])
|-
|{{flag|Turkey}}
|-
|{{flag|United States of America}}
|-
|{{flag|Vietnam}}
|}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="float:right; clear:right; margin-left:1ex; border:1px solid gray; padding:0.7ex; background-color:white;"
! Former MOs in IFToMM
|-
|{{flag|Belgium}}
|-
|{{flag|Ghana}}
|-
|{{flag|Egypt}}
|-
|{{flag|Latvia}}
|-
|{{flag|Macedonia}}
|-
|{{flag|Moldova}}
|-
|{{flag|Mongolia}}
|-
|{{flag|New Zealand}}
|-
|{{flag|Norway}}
|-
|{{flag|Pakistan}}
|-
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|-
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|-
|{{flag|Ukraine}}
|-
|{{flag|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:
* Permanent Commission for Communications, Publications and Archiving
* Permanent Commission for Education
* Permanent Commission for the History of Mechanism and Machine Science
* Permanent Commission for the Standardization of Terminology
While the 14 TCs are:
* Technical Committee for Biomechanical Engineering
* Technical Committee for Computational Kinematics
* Technical Committee for Engines and Powertrains
* Technical Committee for Gearing and Transmissions
* Technical Committee for Linkages and Mechanical Controls
* Technical Committee for Micromachines
* Technical Committee for Multi-body Dynamics
* Technical Committee for Reliability
* Technical Committee for Robotics and Mechatronics
* Technical Committee for Rotordynamics
* Technical Committee for Sustainable Energy Systems
* Technical Committee for Transportation Machinery
* Technical Committee for Tribology
* Technical Committee for Vibrations
==See also==
* [[Theory of Mechanisms and Machines]]
* [[Canadian Committee for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://iftomm-world.org/}}
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.
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[[Category:Organizations established in 1969]]
[[Category:International organisations based in Poland]]
[[Category:Standards organisations in Poland]]
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