Outline of JEMIMA > Roles and Involvement

JEMIMA includes major manufacturers of electric measuring instruments as regular members, with distributors, lease and rental companies, engineering companies, related associations, and similar organizations as supporting members. JEMIMA thus promotes surveys and research, dissemination and education, the establishment of standards, improvement of management practices, international cooperation, and other concerns related to electric measuring instruments to help reinforce the sound development of Japan's electric measuring instrument industry and various related industries, in an attempt to eventually help develop the Japanese economy.

To fulfill the stated purposes above, JEMIMA conducts various activities centering on its committees. In addition to the activities that JEMIMA has continued, many new projects have been launched over the past three years or so. The main projects are as follows:

1. New Activities
(1) Activities for legal regulations and standards
JEMIMA collects information about various laws and relevant standards both at home and abroad in connection with regulations on electric measuring instruments and related products, and then provides its member companies with such information. JEMIMA has created a database of legal regulations and standards from the countries of the world, thus rendering a service that allows its member companies to have easy access and retrieval by using a viewer.

(2) Environmental green activities
These projects help the member companies to commercialize their eco-friendly products and meet the needs of green procurement. JEMIMA monitors the latest trends in EU's WEEE/RoHS controls (categories 8 and 9), occasionally dispatches a survey mission to EU to make sure that Japanese companies there are not unduly harmed, and organizes seminars to present and explain the latest information obtained and solutions conceived. JEMIMA also promotes the creation of a mechanism by using information technology for preparing JEMIMA recycling guidelines and controlling chemicals included in products.

(3) JCSS dissemination activities
In cooperation with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation(NITE)
JEMIMA assists its member companies in responding to the Japan Calibration Service System (JCSS) by disseminating and reporting the system to the public in an attempt to generate demand for calibration service activities.

(4) MandC portal site activities
JEMIMA opened its "portal specializing in measurement and control" (http://www.mandc.org/) in April 2003. A useful product search function guides visitors from around the world to the websites of companies that supply the products sought by visitors. The portal offers a video download for explaining how to use the portal and gives a full technical explanation of the products in an attempt to attract more website visitors.

(5) Activities for promoting and spreading PLIB use
JEMIMA proposed a PLIB (Parts LIBrary) international standard for electric measuring instruments (ISO 13584 Part 501, Procedure for Registering a PLIB Dictionary for Measuring Instruments), which has been approved as an international standard. JEMIMA will begin operating the organization for registering the PLIB dictionary (Registration Authority), verifying the dictionary on a full scale, and engaging in various activities to promote and spread the use of the PLIB dictionary for electric measuring instruments.

(6) Survey and research for functional safety
JEMIMA has proposed a plan to create a JIS version of Part 1 of IEC 61511, which is a sector standard for the process industry for functional safety. JEMIMA will then conduct surveys for Parts 2 and 3 in an attempt to create a JIS version in fiscal year 2006, while disseminating information about the "functional safety" of the process industry.

(7) Security survey and research for production and control systems
Regarding the "security of production and control systems," a drive is being launched for standardizing cyber-security at IEC. JEMIMA has therefore positioned the program in the automation of the manufacturing industry, established a relationship with cyber-space security authorities in the United States, and is now conducting surveys and research on the effects of the program on Japan's manufacturing industry, thus making use of the findings on product workmanship and clarifying different viewpoints.

(8) Exploring future technical themes
JEMIMA surveys and integrates domestic and international information about new core and leading-edge technologies in the field of electric measuring instruments, follows up on and enhances its technology-oriented road map, and proposes national projects for developing technologies for electric measuring instruments to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, along with other authorities.

2. Continuous Activities
(1) Exhibition activities
"The Measurement and Control Show" is held alternatively in Tokyo and Osaka. The show has been highly acclaimed since the first one held in 1955 as Japan's largest "exhibition specializing in measurement and control technology." In 2003, INTERMAC was renamed the "Measurement and Control Show" to organize the "Measurement and Control Show 2003 Tokyo," which attracted more than 50,000 visitors and earned a good reputation. In 2004, the "Measurement and Control Show 2004 Osaka" was held at Grand Cube Osaka under the theme of "'Dreams and the Future Realized through Measurement and Control." The year 2005, which marks the 31st time that the exhibition has been held, will see "Measurement and Control Show 2005 Tokyo" at Tokyo Big Sight under the theme of "Visualizing Future Technologies Instruments" (November 9 to 11).

(2) Internationalization activities
JEMIMA is making positive efforts to establish exchange with related overseas associations. Above all, the association focuses on Asia. It engages in exchange with associations based in China, Taiwan, and South Korea by exchanging various kinds of information and via other means.

(3) Activities related to export control
JEMIMA collects, analyzes, and studies information related to export control in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Center for Information on Security Trade Control (CISTEC), and other related authorities and associations. JEMIMA then compiles the findings on its website, at seminars (such as security trade control briefing sessions), and in reports (such as a statement of judgment for model customs clearance and export control introductory textbooks) to accurately disseminate the information.

(4) Drafting of Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS)
As a drafter of JIS standards, JEMIMA has undertaken the tasks of drafting JIS standards and revisions on behalf of the Japanese Standards Association.
JEMIMA now engages in drafting the following JIS standards scheduled to be established: "Method of measuring volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaust gases," "Automatic measurement system for exhaust gases by collection without specimen suctioning," "Gamma-ray detection-type water monitors," "Functional safety -- safety instrumentation systems for the process industry field," "Performance of automatic measuring instruments," "Method of measuring radioactive surface contamination." The JIS standards scheduled to be revised and being considered by JEMMA are "JIS C 1102-1 Direct acting indicating analogue electrical measuring instruments and their accessories," "JIS C 1211 Alternating-current watt-hour meters (for direct connection)," "JIS C 1216 Alternating-current watt-hour meters (for connection through instrument transformer)," "JIS C 1263 Var-hour meters," "JIS C 1283 Watt-hour, var-hour and maximum demand indicators for telemetering."

(5) Drafting replies for international standards and dispatching committee members
JEMIMA assumes secretarial functions on behalf of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as a deliberator based in Japan for the international standards deliberation agencies (IEC and ISO), thus establishing and operating the next domestic solution committee. The association also dispatches knowledgeable persons to international conferences in an attempt to reflect the views of the Japanese side.
ISO/TC30 (Measuring the Flow Rates in Conduits)
IEC/TC45 (Nuclear Instrumentation)
IEC/TC65 (Measurement and Control for Industrial Processes)

(6) Survey and statistics activities
To monitor the trends in electric measuring instruments, JEMIMA tabulates the production statistics provided by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and trade statistics of the Ministry of Finance, and also prepares statistics on its own. Every year since 1975, JEMIMA has been compiling a report entitled the "Mid-term Forecast of Electric Measuring Instruments," which is used widely not only by JEMIMA members but by related authorities, associations, survey organizations, and other entities as well.

(7) Public relations activities
JEMIMA disseminates information about its activities (such as seminars, exhibitions, standards setting, and statistics) and related information through its website (http://www.jemima.or.jp), mail magazines, bulletins, and news releases on a timely basis, in an attempt to promote wider recognition of JEMIMA and its member companies.