INTRODUCTION

TAMI (Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry) was founded in October 1945 and originally named "Taiwan Association of Iron Industry". It was then renamed "Taiwan Provincial Association of Iron Industry". In May 1947, the organization reshuffled and became "Taiwan Provincial Confederation of Machinery Industry". On April 28th 1948, the name TAMI was officially established and used as Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry from November 1st 2013.

In 1999, TAMI was certified as an ISO9000 organization by the Bureau of Standards, Metrology & Inspection of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Later in 2009, TAMI was certified as "International ISO9000: 2008/CNS 12681 Quality Management System" with the policy of "Upgrading our service and pursuing collective benefits for our members".

In recent years, TAMI has intensively conducted numerous machinery export promotion delegations, as well as trade fairs in domestic and international market places. "TAMINet" was established as a multilingual website geared towards machinery promotion. The website is available in Mandarin Chinese, English and Japanese. This easy to use website is essential in helping company members to offer customer quotes and technical information with just a few clicks of the mouse. "TAMINet" is a business platform that provides machine builders and the satellite companies with the ability to interact each other for sales cooperation and technical discussion. It is also a smart manufacturing forum for both buyers and sellers who wish to acquire up-todate market information, CE conformity guidance and so on.

"TAMI" greatly helps to increase the competitiveness of all its 2,700 company members in the international market place.

 

TAMI's Functions

1. Protection of members' legal rights.
2. Sponsorship of members' general interest activities.
3. Assistance in licensing and certification of members and certification of members' bids in public tenders.
4. Involvement in the formulation of economic policy and business laws and regulations by the government.
5. Performance of general services for members, business groups and public officials on request.
6. Investigation, research and compilation of information on domestic and foreign machinery industries.
7. Investigation on materials and energy resources for machinery manufacturers and coordination of the related resources for members.
8. Promotion of technical cooperation in the industry.
9. Compilation of information on marketing and assistance in marketing for members.
10. Support in exhibiting members' products and encouragement of intercommunication and information sharing among members.
11. Research of labor productivity, sponsoring and promoting technical training and seminars.
12. Investigation of members' business practices and services.
13. Maintenance and registration of data on members and their representatives.
14. Arbitration in member or labor-management disputes.
15. Participation in social activities.
16. Fulfilling other duties required by law or government authorities.

 

Organization

TAMI is a democratic association whose highest authority is the member representatives' assembly. This assembly selects general association management, a 27-member board of directors and a 9-member board of supervisors. An executive board is elected from these two groups, comprising nine executive directors and three executive supervisors. The executive board handles routine affairs of the association and the supervisor convener board is chosen from among these three.

Heading the association is the Secretary General who is selected from the executive board of directors, along with the Vice Secretary General to operate TAMI's routine tasks and missions. The Secretary General is the chief administrator of TAMI and also its official representative at all public functions. In order to promote the development of the machinery industry and comprehensive services, TAMI established 23 specialized committees.

One of the major tasks of the association is the representation at important trade shows in Taiwan and abroad and to provide information to exhibitors from Taiwan manufacturers. This purpose is also served by the buyers' guide Who Makes Machinery, which is published by TAMI. It is the information tool of the engineering industry of Taiwan in all the important industrial and developing countries in the world. TAMI thus offers its member firms a wide range of services and practical experience to expand the possibilities of an individual company.