Memberships

The AMA Association for Sensor Technology was founded in 1980 as the AMA Arbeitsgemeinschaft Messwertaufnehmer e.V., a registered workgroup association for measuring transducers. Today the AMA Association has about 450 members, 70 of which are R&D institutes.

The AMA Association represents the interests of all organizations engaged in one form or another with measuring devices or systems. It thus covers the entire value chain from fundamental research to production and from sensor elements to complex measuring, testing, and controlling systems.

The AMA is an active and authoritative technical association offering its members multi-layered services and a unique network, securing and expanding the strong position of its members on the world market.

CAN in Automation (CiA), the international users and manufacturers group founded in March 1992, provides technical, product and marketing information with the aim of fostering CAN’s image and providing a path for future developments of the CAN protocol. More than 520 companies from all over the world have joined this non-profit trade association.

The FAM promotes and supports science, research, studies and teaching in the field of micro-systems engineering. Its members are mainly industrial enterprises, associations and federations from southern Germany and Switzerland, interested inividuals and the IMTEK (Institute of Micro-Systems Engineering at the University of Freiburg). FAM's mission is to accompany and foster the practical orientation of the engineering studies at the Technical Faculty of the University, to support the knowledge and technology transfer between IMTEK and the industry, and to inform the public about the opportunities and benefits of micro-systems engineering.

With almost 300 events on virtually every subject or topic, the wvib Academy currently reaches an audience of over 3,000 every year.

The 'ZVEI - Zentralverband Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie e.V.', the German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association, represents the economic, technological and environmental policy interests of the German electrical and electronics industry at the national, European and international levels. It provides specific information about the economic, technical and regulatory framework conditions of the electrical industry in Germany.

The ZVEI promotes the development and use of innovative technologies by proposals concerning research, technological, environmental protection, educational and scientific policy. It supports market-orientated European and international standards-making activities.