The annual general meeting of the MECHATROLINK Members Association (MMA) was held on May 17, 2006 at the Mita NN Hall in Tokyo, Japan. We would like to express our thanks to all members who attended in spite of the rain.
At the meeting, lectures, and banquet, every member's understanding of the objectives of the association was deepened, and the already existing relationship of mutual trust among members was more firmly established.
The MMA will continue to hold activities in the widespread uses of MECHATROLINK as a global de facto standard is promoted.

As of the end of the 2005 fiscal year, 146 companies (97 companies in Japan, 18 in Asia, 13 in North America, and 18 in Europe) have joined the MMA. Our goal is to increase the number of members to 200 companies by March 2007. To reach this goal, new branch offices will open in Korea, China, the USA, and Germany. To make MECHATROLINK even easier to use in semiconductor and liquid-crystal manufacturing systems and to make MECHATROLINK technology more open, the MMA established a task force with the approval of the SEMI I&C committee, and the task force started working to obtain SEMI E54 for sensor actuator networks (SAN). We expect that the task force will accomplish its goals and work for the establishment of a MECHATROLINK motion network that is even more global and easier to use and that the use of MECHATROLINK will continue to grow.

Annual general meeting