For a Brighter Tomorrow

With the view to promoting industry and trade through international transactions and technical exchanges, the Japan Machine Tool Builders’ Association and Tokyo Big Sight Inc. are teaming up to host the 31^st Japan International Machine Tool Fair, JIMTOF 2022, at Tokyo Big Sight for the first time in four years, from November 8-13, 2022.

One of the world’s largest international technology exhibitions, JIMTOF, has been held biennially for over 50 years since 1962. It marks its 60th anniversary in 2022 with the theme ‘Open the door to the future - Meet the technologies moving the world forward’.

JIMTOF 2022 will use all the venues at Tokyo Big Sight (Tokyo International Exhibition Center), which has an indoor exhibition space of 118,540 sqm, including the new South Exhibition Hall, which will host a special event themed ‘Additive Manufacturing Area in JIMTOF 2022’. The event will also have lectures, seminars, and talk sessions.

Exhibition scale and exhibitor brief

The exhibition will feature the largest-ever scale of exhibits presented by over 1,000 companies. It will present 861 exhibitors and a record-breaking total of 5,610 booths. Domestic exhibitors (788 in 5,360 booths) and international exhibitors (73 in 250 booths) will be organized into product categories. The exhibition scale of the Additive Manufacturing (AM) area includes 53 exhibitors in 166 booths.

The event is supported by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; Tokyo Metropolitan Government; and The Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Some of the cooperating organizations include Japan Machine Tool Importers’ Association, Japan Forming Machinery Association, Japan Precision Machine Association, Japan Cutting & Wear-resistant Tool Association, Japan Machine Accessory Association, Japan Precision Measuring Instruments Manufacturers Association, Japan Grinding Wheel Association, Industrial Diamond Association of Japan, Japan Optical Measuring Instruments Manufacturers' Association, Japan Fluid Power Association, Japan Testing Machinery Association, and Japan Gear Manufacturers’ Association.

Machine tools (Metal cutting, Metal forming), Machine tool accessories, Tools for machines (Cutting tool & wear-resistant tool), Diamond and CBN tools, Grinding wheels and abrasives, Gears and Gear Devices, Oil/water hydraulic and pneumatic machinery, Precision measuring machines and instruments, Optical measuring instruments, Testing machinery, Controller and related software (CAD/CAM, etc.), and other associated machinery and equipment, raw materials, technologies, and publications are among the exhibitor profile of the exhibition.

JIMTOF 2022 will use all the venues at Tokyo Big Sight (Tokyo International Exhibition Center), which has an indoor exhibition space of 118,540 sqm, including the new South Exhibition Hall, which will host a Special Event themed ‘Additive Manufacturing Area in JIMTOF 2022’.

Participating companies

Many major corporations worldwide will exhibit at the event, anticipating increased international transactions and technical exchanges of machine tools and their ancillary equipment. AMADA Co. Ltd, Blum-Novotest K.K., Bystronic Japan Ltd, Carl Zeiss Co. Ltd, CGTech Inc., EMUGE-FRANKEN K.K., ExxonMobil Japan G.K., FANUC CORPORATION, ISCAR Japan Ltd, Murata Machinery Ltd, REGO-FIX Japan K.K., TaeguTec Japan Ltd, and Taiwan External Trade Development Council are among them.

Advanced Manufacturing Technology Institute (AMTI), Kanazawa University, Dassault Systemes K.K., DMG MORI Co., Ltd, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Solidworks Japan K.K. and Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute will exhibit at the Special Event ‘Additive Manufacturing Area in JIMTOF 2022’.

Keynote addresses and lectures

At JIMTOF 2022, Masamichi Okada, President, Primearth EV Energy Co., Ltd, will deliver the Keynote Speech titled ‘Monozukuri – The Frontier of a Carbon-Neutral Era’. Takanori Isobe, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, University of Hyogo, will present his views on ‘Cryptography of the 6G era’. ‘Simulation-empowered manufacturing in the Fugaku era – The present status and future perspectives of large-scale fluid flow simulations-’ is what Chisachi Kato, Center Director & Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Center for Innovative Simulation Software, has chosen as the topic of his Special Lecture. The last two days will have Seminars for Students titled ‘Top Seminar by Machine Tool Manufacturers for Students’ and ‘Introductory Seminar ‘for Students’ on the Manufacturing Industry’.

Furthermore, IMEC 2022, the 19th International Machine Tool Engineers’ Conference, will comprise two sessions—the ‘Oral Session’ where various lecturers from Japan and abroad will present lectures on the most recent technological trends, and the ‘Poster Session’ will show the results of machine tool research by universities and research institutes in Japan and overseas in the poster format.

JIMTOF 2022 will feature the largest-ever scale of exhibits presented by over 1,000 companies. It will present 861 exhibitors and a record-breaking total of 5,610 booths. Domestic exhibitors (788 in 5,360 booths) and international exhibitors (73 in 250 booths) will be organized into product categories.

Other event specials

The ‘Special Event’ of JIMTOF 2022 will bring AM/3D printing-related products and technologies together. In addition to the ‘Exhibit Area’, a ‘Special Seminar Venue’ will be set up where more than 15 lectures on AM/3D printing and a workshop by the exhibitors will be held. There will also be a Keynote Speech by Tatsuaki Furumoto, Professor, AMTI, Kanazawa University, entitled ‘Toward the innovation of ‘mono-zukuri’ using a metal-based additive manufacturing’.

The ‘Special Exhibit’ at the event will introduce the advanced technologies of the industry-leading machine tool manufacturers and explore the ‘Monozukuri’ factory of the future. Japan-made products with the highest market share, created by state-of-the-art machine tools manufactured in the factory, will be displayed across the board, demonstrating the roadmap to the ‘Future of Monozukuri’.

JIMTOF 2022 will include a ‘Special Display’ of IHI’s jet engine technology, which is important in the global Aviation industry. Each engine relies on its superior technical capabilities, which are supported by history and tradition. The exhibition will also improve digital content by offering an online catalog for collecting pre- and post-event information, an online exhibitor channel for publishing exhibitors’ webinars and product introduction videos, and a matching system for more efficient business opportunities.

MURALI SUNDARAM
Correspondent
Magic Wand Media Inc
murali.sundaram@magicwandmedia.in