The eighth Best Paper Award 2017 ceremony was held at Kanda Office of Fuji Technology Press Ltd., Tokyo, September 29, 2017, attended by the winners and IJAT Editorial Committee members. The Best Paper was severely selected from among 108 papers published in Vol.10, 2016. The Best Paper Award winner was given a certificate with a nearly US$1,000 honorarium.

We congratulate the winner and sincerely wish for their future success.

The Best Paper Award 2017

Fundamental Study on Novel On-Machine Measurement Method of a Cutting Tool Edge Profile with a Fluorescent Confocal Microscopy

by Kenji Maruno, Masaki Michihata, Yasuhiro Mizutani, and Yasuhiro Takaya

Int. J. of Automation Technology Vol.10 No.1, pp. 106-113, January, 2016 (doi: 10.20965/ijat.2016.p0106)