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CIMAC was Established in 1951 under the proposition of France (the secretariat was then Paris) as international organization on internal combustion engines. As of January 2020, it consists of members of the National Member Association (NMA) from 15 countries and 20 corporate members (CM) from 12 countries. The secretariat is located in Frankfurt, Germany. JICEF is its representative organization in Japan and operates the following CIMAC activities in Japan. (Please refer to the website of the CIMAC Central Secretariat https://www.cimac.com/.)
The board members of CIMAC are elected from the council,, and consists of 11 members, the President, seven Vice Presidents, the former President, the next CIMAC Congress President, and the Secretary-General. Yasuyuki Takahata is currently working as a Vice President from Japan.
There are Working groups to conduct research and create recommendations and position papers on internal combustion engines (WG: 11 WGs as of January 2020)
The JICEF basically has each Mirror Group Meeting for the WG, and holds a biannual Mirror Groups Leaders’ Meeting to exchange information between WGs. (Chair of Mirror Groups Leaders’ Meeting: Yasuyuki Takahata / YANMAR Power Technology)
WG No. | Working Group | Mirror Working Group's Leader |
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2 | Classification | Tomohiro Mitsukiyo (Mitsui E&S Machinery) |
4 | Crankshaft Rules | Kenichiro Hirao (Kobe Steel) |
5 | Exhaust Emission Control | Junichi Sato (IHI Power Systems) |
7 | Fuels | Atsushi Takeda (Nippon Yuka Kogyo) |
8 | Marine Lubricants | Keisuke Shimokawa (Daihatsu Diesel MFG) |
15 | Controls and Automation | Makoto Ideguchi (Nabtesco Corporation) |
17 | Gas Engines | Sadao Nakayama (IHI Power Systems) |
19 | Technology for Inland Waterway Vessels | Yoshinori Sasaki (YANMAR Power Technology) |
20 | System Integration | Hidenori Sekiguchi (National Maritime Resesarch Institute) |
21 | Propulsion | Takuro Hatamoto (IHI Power Systems) |