Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association (IMTMA)

Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association
Abbreviation IMTMA
Formation 1946 (1946)
Type Non-governmental
Headquarters Bangalore, India
Area served
India
Services Policy Advocacy
Imparting Training for Machine Tool and Manufacturing Industries
Business Development
Conferences and Trade Fairs
Members
484
Employees
89
Website www.imtma.in

Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association (IMTMA) is the apex industry body for the machine tool sector in India. Comprising large-, medium- and small-scale units, the membership of IMTMA includes manufacturers in the entire range of metal working machine tools, accessories and other ancillary equipment for machine tools, cutting tools and tooling systems along with trading companies.

Parakramsinh G. Jadeja, chairman and managing director of Jyoti CNC Automation Limited is the president, and P. Ramadas, managing director of Ace Manufacturing Systems Limited is its vice president. V. Anbu is the secretary, director general and chief executive officer.

Objectives

IMTMA supports the machine tool industry of India in increasing its competitiveness, technology, productivity and quality for overall advancement and growth. The association has actively supported initiatives for advancement of metalworking manufacturing industry in India.

Vision and mission

The machine tool industry vision is to develop technologies for future and raise production level to reduce import dependence, counter technology denials, provide sustained manufacturing competitiveness and strengthen national security.

The mission is to enhance the domestic market share to 60% in 5 years and become one of the top 10 machine tool producing nations of the world and raise exports to a significant level of at least 20%.

Association activities

Membership

The membership of IMTMA is open to any Indian company including large, medium and small scale units engaged in metalworking machine tools, machine tool consumables, accessories and other ancillary equipment for machine tool industry. IMTMA membership helps companies in gaining expertise in machine tool industry for business and market development, catalyze technology development and open new opportunities for R&D, gain benefits of government policy measures and schemes for development, etc.

Policy advocacy

IMTMA conducts regular interactions with the Department of Heavy Industry, National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council, Department of Commerce, etc. The association vouches member concerns to the government for formulating policies supporting the machine tool industry. IMTMA provides policy inputs to various government agencies on specific issues referred to it from time to time.

Compiling and publishing industry data

IMTMA compiles and publishes various documents related to association, technology, market, business and other latest industry reports. These publications include Market Research, Technology Forecasting Industry Survey Members Directory, etc. Some publications are free to view, some are restricted to members and some are available on payment.

Technology missions

IMTMA organizes technology missions both within the country and outside for its member companies to gain more knowledge about the latest in machine tools and manufacturing technologies, visit research institutions and learn the best practices in machine tools and manufacturing.

Business and market updates

IMTMA disseminates information about the machine tool industry, provides in depth analysis, trends and latest developments of the user sectors through focused studies. IMTMA strives to strengthen the relations between industry and user sectors by providing the information to members on user sector requirements and enabling the members to serve them better.

Export development

IMTMA supports the export efforts of its members through various initiatives such as group participation in overseas fairs, trade missions, etc. In view of the periodic variation in machine tool markets it is imperative to develop a healthy market mix between domestic and export market. IMTMA has formed an Export Development Cell to focus on strategic efforts to boost machine tool exports.

Vision conclave

To address the long-term interests of the manufacturing industry IMTMA organizes a conclave of industry CEOs and top management to discuss long-term vision strategies, plans and prospects, how to manage the rapidly changing market dynamics, government policies, customer demands, etc. and strategize a vision for the industry as a whole.

UDAAN

The association also strives to build the next generation of machine tool builders. To this end it has created UDAAN. The UDAAN members consist of young-generation of family owned enterprises, young entrepreneurs, and young professionals to be nurtured as CEOs/COOs. IMTMA organizes focused programmes on various functional areas to help UDAAN group to conceptualize future strategies linking to the association.

Cluster development

IMTMA Cluster Development cell was conceptualized and implemented for the overall development of the cluster. This initiative acted as a focal point for all formal and informal linkages between various cluster actors. IMTMA worked with National Productivity Council, United Nations Industrial Development Organization and other development agencies to implement this.

Technology development

IMTMA has taken several initiatives to catalyze technology development among its members and open up new opportunities for research and development by initiating academia-industry cooperation in R&D projects. IMTMA helps members with their technology issues by identifying suitable academic / R&D institutions which have required expertise to develop solutions for them. After sustained advocacy with the Government of India, it was possible to create an Advanced Centre of Excellence for R&D and Technology Development in machine tools with IIT, Madras. This will help develop new technology and products by the machine tool units where the government funds 80% of the development cost as a grant.

C-MAT

As a result of IMTMA's interaction, the Government of India in the year 2009 constituted a C-MAT (Core Advisory Group for Research and Development in the Machine Tools Sector). The industry has implemented several R&D projects through industry-academia partnership by this scheme.

Advanced Machine Tool Testing Facility (AMTTF)

AMTTF is a joint project of the machine tool industry, CMTI and the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Government of India to establish a state-of-the-art machine tool testing facility at the Central Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI), Bangalore. The facility helps machine tool and related companies to test, trouble shoot and upgrade their products to higher levels of performance. Services of the AMTTF are also available to the general industry at large.

Awards

Recognizing the immense contributions of individuals towards the development of the Indian machine tool industry leading member companies along with IMTMA have instituted 2 prestigious awards:

These awards are decided by an eminent jury and presented at IMTEX exhibitions.

Regional councils

The regional councils of IMTMA promote the growth of the association activities and in particular serve as brand ambassadors for membership enhancement drive. IMTMA has 3 regional councils – South, West and North which play a critical role in addressing issues of regional importance and serve as liaison between IMTMA head office and regional members.

Training

IMTMA set up IMTMA Technology Centres at Bangalore in 2009 and Pune in 2014 for skill development in machine tool and manufacturing industries. The centres are equipped with state-of-the-art training facilities including CNC turning and machining centres, metal forming presses, CAD/CAM/CAE, CMM and Metrology equipment, cutting tools and other accessories for imparting hands-on training.

IMTMA’s Institute Design Institute in Bangalore, Pune and Gurgaon imparts design training skills in machine tool and its components for fresh engineering graduates and new recruits to the industry.

Design Institute runs very comprehensive training programmes on Machine Tool Design – Mechanical 8 weeks and Machine Tool Design – Electrical 4 weeks, for both mechanical and electrical engineers to make them industry ready. Earlier this year IMTMA opened a new Design Institute in Pune & Gurgaon.

The Institute Productivity Institute at Bangalore runs a 4-week School Finishing School to give mechanical engineers hands-on training on Production CNC machines, CAD/CAM, Metrology Equipment, Tooling and work holding systems and related accessories. The course makes fresh engineers and new recruits to the industry ready with practical knowledge to take on production responsibilities. The Finishing School has completed Batch of Finishing School in Production Engineering concludes on 10th February 2016.pdf 25 batches. Whereas the Tech Centre in Bangalore focuses on imparting training in metal cutting, the Tech Centre in Pune focuses on metal forming technology.

Mega events

To encourage establishment of all sections of stakeholders in the industry IMTMA organizes summits and seminars:

National Productivity Summit: Every year IMTMA organizes the National Productivity Summit to recognize and reward outstanding productivity practices in the metal working industry. The Productivity Summit consists of 2 main components: keynote presentations from eminent persons in Industry/Academia/R&D on the concepts and practices in productivity improvement and deciding the winners of the Productivity Championship Awards. The winners of the first 8 National Productivity Summits held from 2006 to 2014 were sponsored by Siemens. ACE MICROMATIC followed Siemens from 2015 and the winners are now awarded IMTMA-ACE MICROMATIC Championship Awards.

Machine Tool Industry Summit: The summit brings together the entire industry, including its supply chain, to discuss important issues for the development of the industry and its performance, productivity and competitiveness. The summit is in continuation of IMTMA’s ongoing efforts to bring together the entire machine tool industry fraternity to realize the common objectives. The event offers an excellent opportunity to network and address key challenges for sustainable growth and development.

International Seminars: Coinciding with IMTEX exhibitions, IMTMA organizes seminars on forming technology and machining technologies every alternate years. The seminar is an international platform in India for global interactions on the latest trends in metal cutting and metal forming technologies. The seminar dwells extensively on new manufacturing strategies, review and address emerging trends and expose users and manufacturers to a range of value adding solutions in machining and forming technologies.

Symposium on Smart Manufacturing: This symposium is an event on smart manufacturing organized to understand the real-time benefits and applications of automation in smart manufacturing. Automation Buzz, an exhibition displaying a wide range of automation devices and systems, software and a host of automation solutions is held concurrently. Symposium on Smart Manufacturing will be held every year.

Trade fairs

IMTEX and Tooltech

IMTMA is synonymous with its flagship exhibition IMTEX. Originally a combined show of both Metal Cutting and Metal Forming technologies, the show was later (in the year 2009) split into two IMTEX and IMTEX FORMING held in alternate years at BIEC in Bangalore. Both of these have concurrent Tooltech exhibitions, an event which showcases machine tool accessories, metrology and CAD/CAM cutting tools, tooling systems and current trends in the tooling industry. IMTEX which began its journey in 1969 at Bombay will soon celebrate its 50th anniversary in the year 2019. The last edition of IMTEX held in 2017 had 1072 (601 Indian and 471 Foreign) exhibitors displaying machines in a gross area of 66,000 sq.mts. The event attracted a footfall of 75,440 visitors. Orders worth Rs. 1,670 Cr and enquiries to the value of Rs. 18,989 Cr were generated during the exhibition. Compared to IMTEX 2015 and Tooltech 2015, the booked orders have shown an increase of 16%, whereas the generated enquiries increased by 21%. The last edition of IMTEX FORMING held in 2016 in Bangalore had over 475 exhibitors displaying their products in an exhibition space of around 30,000 sq.mts. Business enquiries worth Rs.4,304 crores were obtained and orders worth Rs. 456 crores were generated.

Regional machine tool expos

To address the manufacturing requirements of original equipment manufacturers of various industry sectors in Tier II and Tier III cities of India, IMTMA organizes regional machine tool expos. These shows unveil the latest manufacturing technologies and solutions which would enable large industries and other small and medium enterprises to leverage and enhance their manufacturing capabilities. The expos cover the entire gamut of metal working machine tools for both metal cutting and metal forming including automation and robotics which are essential for today’s manufacturing. Delhi Machine Tool Expo 2015 held in New Delhi had 220 exhibitors displaying their products in an area of around 10,000 m2 and attracted around 13000 visitors. The next edition of Delhi Machine Tool Expo will be held from 10 to 13 August 2017 in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. Ahmedabad Machine Tool Expo 2015 held in Ahmedabad had 40 exhibitors displaying their products in an area of around 4,000 m2. and attracted a footfall of around 9000 visitors. IMTMA is organizing the next regional machine tool expo in Pune from 29 September 2016 to 2 October 2016. Pune Machine Tool Expo 2016 displayed state-of-the-art technology solutions and innovations that were vital for the manufacturing industry to keep itself up to date with quality, productivity and competition. With more than 100 exhibitors, the machine tool exhibition attracted 7,400 visitors and 62 trade delegations from various industries such as auto component, automobiles, capital goods, defence, aerospace and railways.

Bangalore International Exhibition Centre

Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) was conceptualized by IMTMA with an objective of providing an international standard infrastructure for organizing trade exhibitions, industrial conferences and other business-to-business (B2B) events. Besides hosting IMTEX, BIEC acted as the facilitator for business cooperation in a wide segment of industries such as capital goods, oil and gas equipment, plastics processing, telecom equipment, textile machinery sector, food processing and dairy equipment, automobiles, auto components, aluminum extrusion, electrical and electronics industries and many more.

BIEC venue has also been used by leading industry associations such as Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) and many other trade associations for their B2B events. Some of these being:

BIEC has hosted prominent events organized by the Government of India as well as the Government of Karnataka at its premises. These being:

Award

BIEC was conferred with the Excellence in Services Award at the Exhibition Excellence Awards for 2016 organized by Exhibition Showcase on 23 January 2016 at India Expo Mart in Greater NOIDA.

Expansion

BIEC has constructed a new hall of 17,500 sq.mts., which is an add-on facility to its existing infrastructure. The newly built Hall 4 was inaugurated by Mr. Girish Shankar, Department of Heavy Industry, Ministry of Heavy Industries, Govt. of India on 26 January 2017. IMTEX 2017 inaugurated by Chief Minister of Karnataka Shri Siddaramaiah was the first exhibition held in this hall. Exhibition organizers can now look forward to book additional space for their exhibitions and conferences.

History

The history of the association is the history of the machine tool industry in India. The concept of binding machine tool manufacturers into an association was first mooted at an informal gathering of ‘like-minded’ manufacturers. The manufacturers met at a formal gathering in New Delhi on 20 September 1946 to concretise the thoughts of bringing together all machine tool manufacturers under one umbrella body. The meeting chaired by Sir Dhunjishaw B. Cooper came up with the name of “Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association” or IMTMA in short for this umbrella body representing the interest of the machine tool industry. The association was granted instant recognition by the government as a body representing machine tool manufacturers in the country. IMTMA was constituted with 19 members.

Executive committee

The seal of recognition of IMTMA was affirmed at the first meeting of the association’s executive committee on 28 August 1947 at Indian Merchant’s Chamber in Bombay. The chairman of the first executive committee was Sir Dhunjishaw B. Cooper.

Annual meeting

The first annual general meeting of IMTMA was held on 29 January 1948 at Indian Merchant’s Chamber at Lalji Naranji Memorial Building in Bombay. A meeting of the first-elected members of IMTMA executive committee followed the first annual general meeting. The meeting unanimously elected M.B. Jambhekar as president of IMTMA and D.S. Mulla as the first vice president of the association. Subsequent annual general meetings of the association were held every year.

Registration

IMTMA was reconstituted as an association registered under the Indian Companies Act in Bombay on 26 March 1973.

Secretariat

In its early days the association operated from Bombay. In 1965 IMTMA moved into its own premises in Rampart Row. In 1991 the association shifted from Bombay to Delhi. IMTMA office in Bangalore came into existence two years later in 1993. With nearly 50% of the machine tool companies being based in Bangalore besides a large concentration of manufacturers in prominent industry sectors such as aerospace, defence, etc. also in the city, IMTMA felt the need of setting up a Centre of Excellence to cater requirements of the industries based in the region and also the need to have a world class exhibition infrastructure. With those thoughts BIEC was constituted. This eventually became the head office of IMTMA and the Gurgaon office becoming the regional office in north.

IMTEX

Enamoured by the success of the International Machine Tool Exhibition in Hannover, members of IMTMA felt the need to hold similar fairs in India. The wheel was thereafter set in motion with the first machine tool exhibition in Bombay. The first “All India Machine Tool Exhibition” was held in 1969 in the premises Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Private Limited in Vikhroli, Mumbai, over 7,000 square metres. Initially christened as the “All India Machine Tool Exhibition”, this later became “IMTEX”. Bombay continued to host IMTEX for the next two decades until 1989. In 1992, IMTEX moved from Bombay to New Delhi and was held in Pragati Maidan with participation from over 600 companies. IMTEX and concurrent Tooltech exhibition was held in Bangalore for the first time in 2007, when IMTMA constructed a new venue called the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC). IMTMA continues to host the IMTEX (metal cutting) every odd year and IMTEX FORMING (metal forming) every even year at BIEC.

Certifications and policies

  1. Integrated Management System Certification
  2. UFI Certificate
  3. IMS Policy
  4. CSR Policy
  5. Vigil Mechanism Policy

References

  1. Website: http://www.imtma.in/ 
  2. IMTMA elects new President and VP; OEM Update; 12 January 2016
  3. IMTMA’s AGM Ends on a High Note; MMI India; 15 December 2015
  4. P.G. Jadeja elected as new IMTMA President; The Machinist; 16 December 2015
  5. 69th Annual General Meeting of Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association: P.G. Jadeja Elected as New President; Machine Tool World; December 2015
  6. P G Jadeja Elected As New President of IMTMA; AutoParts Asia; 15 December 2015
  7. IMTMA hosts Delhi Machine Tool Expo 2015, prime focus on regional manufacturing; ET Auto.com; 21 August 2015
  8. Indian machine tool industry sees growing use of software in manufacturing; Auto Car Professional; 7 August 2015
  9. IMTMA Inaugurates Technology Center in Pune; MMI India; 15 January 2015
  10. Machine tool demand up; growth impulse back: IMTMA; Economic Times; 20 August 2014
  11. Sandvik Coromant Joins Hands With IMTMA for Productivity Buzz and Productivity Summit 2013; PR Newswire; 20 November 2013
  12. IMTMA to make engineering graduates industry-ready; Business Standard; 25 January 2011

Annual reports

  1. Annual Report 2015-16
  2. Annual Report 2014-15
  3. Annual Report 2013-14
  4. Annual Report 2012-13
  5. Annual Report 2011-12
  6. Annual Report 2010-11
  7. Annual Report 2009-10
  8. Annual Report 2008-09
  9. Annual Report 2007-08
  10. Annual Report 2006-07
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.