It is our great honor to publish this special issue in Tribology Online. This special issue includes the papers accepted after a rigorous peer review process.
The Joint International Conference on Micromechatronics for Information and Precision Equipment (MIPE2022) was held at Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan) from August 28 to 31, 2022, with the aim of promoting innovation in mechatronics technology including tribology and the advancement of mechatronic systems through integration with information technology. This conference was held in a hybrid way of on-site and online, and the number of participants was 248 from Japan and 66 from overseas, totaling 314 participants.
This conference was co-hosted by the Information, Intelligence and Precision Equipment (IIP) Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) and the Information Storage and Processing Systems (ISPS) Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). For intensive international discussions, the two divisions jointly hold this conference every three years since 2003, alternating between Japan and the U.S. This year's conference is the seventh. Japanese Society of Tribologists was a co-sponsor of this conference.
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